Can you hit incoming missiles with Mosquitos?

[Maulkye]

Can you hit incoming missiles with Mosquitos?

I seem to be able to, but a lot of pretty smart fans are saying it fails. I'm going to more testing, but I wondered what the general player experience had been.

Thanks

[DaveyP]

Well, there's a bonus script that uses mozzies for missile defence, so I'd have to guess at "yes"

[X-it]

Well I've never actually tried a Mosquito, only Wasps, so I couldn't vote. But even the in-game description (or is it the manual?) says that they are especially designed for anti-missile defence for ships with no turrets, so according to the game they should be perfect.

But that wasn't your real question, was it?

[Maulkye]

That's kind of why I bring it up. I wrote a script myself that does it and Ouch has a larger script that appears to have the same functionality included. It appears that they do just fine, but I just wondered what others had seen.

[ouch]

I have had silkworms do the job but not mosquitoes. the mosquitoes constantly over shoot the target.

some of the larger missiles have area of effect where they take out several missiles if the the AI does that missile spam chain they like to do.

this is as of 1.2 though. all missiles have been tweaked in 1.3, we'll have to see how they do now...