I'm maneuvering down a trench attempting to hit a 2 meter wide exhaust port, but the space nazis have launched fighters. Should I shoot TIEs? (hexbear.net)

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[-] grazing7264@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

On real planes some missiles are guided by directional radios mounted on the noses of the planes they're fired from, and approaching it from too high would expose fighters to AA turrets all over the surface so the trench would be useful as cover

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

I don't think the turrets were much of a problem, it's been a while since I watched the movie, but most if not all of the rebel fighters were taken out by TIEs.

Hell, they couldn't even hit the much bigger Millennium Falcon, although that's probably more a plot hole.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

Yeah, they were mostly taken out by TIEs because they did their whole attack plan to avoid most of the turrets

[-] grazing7264@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Since the Millennium Falcon is really fast at full speed maybe it strafed the ties while they were preoccupied and outran them before they could react, like a MIG-31 ambushing a trio of F-15s