M8 tips/strategies (AP)

Nickvr628 · Post by **Nickvr628** » Sun, 28. Jul 13, 15:20

Hey guys, I started as Argon Peacekeeper and am aiding the war effort. Since I "obviously" a high ranking officer in the argon military, worthy of their Nova Prototype, and honored protecter of the highway gate system. I took out 50mil of goverment funding and bought myself a TL and built a self sustaining tomahawk/firestorm complex for my M8. But flying the m8 is different than other ships, you have to be careful because a single M4 can take you out. Normally my typical boming run against terran convoys or M6s is I throtle up, when I get 10k out I launch two missiles and continue to zoom on by. This works about half the time. Other time I get shot up by SSCs. Is my strategy correct, is there a better way to use my missiles? Also what should I set my missile turret to, if I put it on atack enemies it rapidy flails missiles like no tommorow. Any help is appreciated.

Sabrina Bergin · Post by **Sabrina Bergin** » Sun, 28. Jul 13, 15:45

Do not get close to M1/M2's the idea of a missile ship is to shoot from a distance and have a selection of small swarm missiles to get rid of anything smaller than M6's.

The M8 is not a fighter.

Aragosnat · Post by **Aragosnat** » Sun, 28. Jul 13, 17:34

Yeah. Never get closer then 15-20 km. As that will give you plenty of time to react since they have What was it 50 km range?

brownthomasw · Post by **brownthomasw** » Sun, 28. Jul 13, 18:57

i don't use the m8 too much and i don't get in it when i do. if there is an enemy capital ship i can't or don't want to fight i jump the m8 in fire a missile barrage or two and jump him right back out. kind of a waste of a 6 million dollar ship that i rarely use but it is deadly. you may need to position him properly in the sector to get his shot and he'll need some cover as enemies seem to make your weaker assets their priority. They should also know he is the torpedo boat come to destroy their leader so its reasonable that everyone goes after him.

Imgran · Post by **Imgran** » Sun, 28. Jul 13, 19:27

In order to maximize hitting from a distance: keep a selection of light swarm missiles. Launch the big stuff, then launch the light swarmers to time on target or a little before to draw enemy flak/missile defense.

That's what I do when launching Hornets from my Centaur.

ajm317 · Post by **ajm317** » Sun, 28. Jul 13, 22:43

Er...M8's can't equip light swarm missiles.

Gomezie · Post by **Gomezie** » Sun, 28. Jul 13, 22:50

As hard as I have tried, i could never get an M8 to work as a playership... just not worth it imo.

Strikecraft role is about the only thing that fits to me

Imgran · Post by **Imgran** » Sun, 28. Jul 13, 22:54

ajm317 wrote:Er...M8's can't equip light swarm missiles.

That's surprisingly easily remedied -- the M8 is a one trick pony anyway, it's one of the easiest ships to let the autopilot handle, while you're in an M3 or even an M4 ready to follow up their bombardments with a flight of Wasps.

ajm317 · Post by **ajm317** » Sun, 28. Jul 13, 22:56

Imgran wrote:
ajm317 wrote:Er...M8's can't equip light swarm missiles.
That's surprisingly easily remedied -- the M8 is a one trick pony anyway, it's one of the easiest ships to let the autopilot handle, while you're in an M3 or even an M4 ready to follow up their bombardments with a flight of Wasps.

Yeah but the OP wants to fly it himself.

At any rate M8's can defeat missile defenses just by sheer volume of fire. Jump in, target an M2, barrage 60 missiles or something and wait for the fireworks.

Imgran · Post by **Imgran** » Mon, 29. Jul 13, 01:36

Truly, but you'd be hoping to use missiles a bit less cringe-inducingly expensive as M8 class missiles as fodder.

ajm317 · Post by **ajm317** » Mon, 29. Jul 13, 01:45

Imgran wrote:Truly, but you'd be hoping to use missiles a bit less cringe-inducingly expensive as M8 class missiles as fodder.

60 Tomahawks is about 1.4 million credits.

Sounds expensive, but there are people who like to use carriers full of M3's, and everyone of those things is basically a 3 million credit accident waiting to happen in the AI's hands. Everything's relative I guess.

Imgran · Post by **Imgran** » Mon, 29. Jul 13, 01:49

Well I'm under the impression that our OP is still pretty new in the game, and a million credits is still a whimper-inducing price

ajax34i · Post by **ajax34i** » Mon, 29. Jul 13, 01:53

As it's been said:

If you want to fly it yourself, stay at range, and shoot your missiles. Get yourself an escort of 2 interception M3's (faster ones - Nova Raider etc), and set them to be your wingmen, so you can control them with the keys to "Wingmen Defend Me" and "Wingmen Attack My Target." They will be your protection against those M4's that keep taking you out

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Otherwise, fly something else, and call in the M8 (it has a jump drive, right?) to do missile barrage as needed on the targets you want.

Nickvr628 · Post by **Nickvr628** » Mon, 29. Jul 13, 03:26

I am a veteran at the x3 series, I have about 100 hours of TC and got AP on sale. I have a fully kited cerberus loaded up with novas so I am no newbie at basic gameplay mechanics. The reason I asked this is I never really got into the M8 class, and needed some tips. My other question is this, you talked about barrage missile fire how do you do that. I thought only M7Ms could do that. What is the hotkey/procedure for this?

ajax34i · Post by **ajax34i** » Mon, 29. Jul 13, 04:03

Um, Command Console - Additional Ship Commands - Missile Barrage?

ajm317 · Post by **ajm317** » Mon, 29. Jul 13, 05:09

Nickvr628 wrote:I am a veteran at the x3 series, I have about 100 hours of TC and got AP on sale. I have a fully kited cerberus loaded up with novas so I am no newbie at basic gameplay mechanics. The reason I asked this is I never really got into the M8 class, and needed some tips. My other question is this, you talked about barrage missile fire how do you do that. I thought only M7Ms could do that. What is the hotkey/procedure for this?

Any ship with a missile turret can barrage. At present that's the M7M's, the M8's and the Xenon I.

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M8 tips/strategies (AP)

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