What to do against a good gunship pilot??

[Biotech2142]

Gunships in 1.40 beta still the same and I predicted that weeks before it was released.

Talon still better than Doragon. Soloing still more effective to TVGM + hunt enemy gunships than with a gunner. Breaking SAAW lock-on still a breeze in gunship.

[TheLeper]

All gunshippers have the same motivations, they cant help but chase an air transport. Use this to your advantage, fly around capping flags when you hear the lockon from behind upshields and pull up hard they crash right into your shields and you get points and angry messages in text chat. You wont have to deal with them until the next gunship spawns by which time you would obviously have aa ready.

[IS300]

saw and motion mines next to silos when trying to take silos

for moving around the map try to either get urself a tank or the fav rushing through silos

[SilentB]

Learn how to fly a gunship like him? I managed to get a 37:2 k/d earlier today, it's not that hard

[ginnix]

gunship sux, its the most suckin vehicle in the game, designed for cowards who cant fight as infantries.

[tonks950]

I normally just use the saaw to either take him out or I use it as an area denial weapon.

Then if I can my gunship safely off the ground I'll hunt him down and destroy him. I have never come up aganst a really good gunship pilot so this tactic always works.

Also I've had people try and camp my helipad with their saaw, that might work for you.

[ICE*T]

The only thing in this game that can really own me is a gunship. When I play on smaller titan servers, a good gunship pilot and a gunner can really dominate the entire battlefield.

Any vehicle will be destroyed within seconds, and whenever I try to take him out with a SAAW he will put his shield up to deflect the rockets then kill me. So here I am on my own titan, all silos are red, and I'm to afraid to go out. Can anyone help me?

Ive got into right clicking rockets and firing really quickly and then acquiring the target as it is in flight, dont know if this will work with the saaw as I rarely use it,would use the pilum but Im playing with a new soldier,(didn't like the tag ICE*T )This tactic works well with tanks etc but gunships are tricky customers, if I see a gunship Ill target him jus to put him off what he's doing, but I will rarely fire unless he's close:yay:ps camping the helipad and shooting down that gunship as he comes in with a smokin *** is a good tactic - bit boring though....not enough points

[Lt.ConVix]

They are dead before they hit the ground :evil:

Thx for tips Lt.ConVix :salute:

np just remember they lamp posts! the amount of times iv went in low to tank a tank out to get clipped my a lampost u wud think since its 2142 they cud bend a lampost but nooooooooooooo :cry:

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ps camping the helipad and shooting down that gunship as he comes in with a smokin *** is a good tactic - bit boring though....not enough points

wait till the new map comes out i went on it there are 4 ships and every1 wants one so camping there wud bring some points ALTHO i wud be mightly pee'd off if u did it to me :cry:

[RottnJP]

LOL! Remember the white picket fences in BF2 that stop 60 ton main battle tanks? I always wonder why they can't just make the armored vehicles out of white picket fences and lamp-posts...

Not to mention the height scale problem- Who needs 80 meter tall lamp-posts?? And why would you surround your landing area with them, FFS?? (a la Suez) :cussing:

[Slim1951]

LOL! Remember the white picket fences in BF2 that stop 60 ton main battle tanks? I always wonder why they can't just make the armored vehicles out of white picket fences and lamp-posts...

Not to mention the height scale problem- Who needs 80 meter tall lamp-posts?? And why would you surround your landing area with them, FFS?? (a la Suez) :cussing:

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So true, so true.

[m3talc0re]

Yeah, you're right about the lamp posts, that's annoying and stupid. What I think is funny is when I'm going head to head with another gunship and they start doing their "evasive" actions and they'll do their loops and ****... I just sit there and watch 'em do their loop (don't chase 'em in the loop) and when they're coming back down, I'll kill 'em with missiles.

As for me without a gunship to fight them, I'll just use a tank or APC. The PAC tank is somewhat better because if you hit it in reverse, you're aim can go a little higher than it normally would. Also use hills to get your aim to reach higher. As like someone said earlier, I rarely miss with the APC emp's. I'll nail 'em 200 feet away and watch 'em smack into the ground or a building. So I'm not really scared of the gunships. Any vehicle really, there are ways to get by them, kill them, etc..

[Yraen]

Best way I ever got even against a gunship was while I was sniping from the top of one of the towers on Verdun (I think, snowy Titan map that's not Shuhia). Gunship was hovering and raping everyone, I looked over the edge and saw it, thought for a moment, pulled out my RDX and dropped a couple over the edge. Waited till they were near the gunship and blew em up. Two kills for me! And a couple of highly confused gunship users :p

[TrooperJac]

I was once in a Gunship duel on Suez, he managed to get on my tail and wreck my ship so I bailed out and parachuted down. Not content with giving me a long walk back to civilization he came after me and after a few runs with the rockets attempted to run me over.

I dropped my motion mines and took him out :rofl:

A glorious victory. Personally I think the Gunships are well balanced. With a good crew that can communicate they are a valueable weapon but they can be taken out pretty easily if you really need to.

[Durutti]

As like someone said earlier, I rarely miss with the APC emp's. I'll nail 'em 200 feet away and watch 'em smack into the ground or a building. So I'm not really scared of the gunships. Any vehicle really, there are ways to get by them, kill them, etc..

Psshhh, EMP from 200 feet? I don't doubt you have done that, but to claim that you can do it every time....:laugh: Any pilot who knows what he is doing will be going too fast for you to hit him with the EMP from the APC from that distance. Ok if he is stupid and just hovering in one place, fine, but that pilot doesn't know what he/she is doing. If I ever meet you online, you will fear my gunship...

I was once in a Gunship duel on Suez, he managed to get on my tail and wreck my ship so I bailed out and parachuted down. Not content with giving me a long walk back to civilization he came after me and after a few runs with the rockets attempted to run me over.

I dropped my motion mines and took him out :rofl:

A glorious victory. Personally I think the Gunships are well balanced. With a good crew that can communicate they are a valueable weapon but they can be taken out pretty easily if you really need to.

That should never happen. A good pilot should never be going slow enough to be hit by the motion mines. Going fast enough and high enough you can lose them even if they lock onto you. The only time you will die is if a smart engineer puts them around your helipad and you come back for repairs or a new one spawns and you get in. BOOM! No way to avoid that. But besides that MM should never kill a good gunship pilot.

[Fingulfin]

I don't go after infantry in the gunship... At least not when Soloing. When I have a gunner, I just let him do all that work.

I can EASILY resist an air transport. The enemy gunship is ALWAYS the first priority. Actually, I find it easier to kill APCs than it is to kill Air Transports... People have a nasty habit of bailing out before the thing is all the way dead :p

I actually have only been up against a SAAW once or twice, so I can't do any bragging on that part, you would probably rape me with it