Space station assault, tips

[Vrakos Anthrakir]

Any tips for attacker-side? I can generally beat the enemies ships, but I'm not left with enough strength to really assault the space station

[Shashaveli]

Soften it up with long range weapons. You are in no hurry...use your artillery to damage it first before rushing in.

[Vrakos Anthrakir]

Originally posted by @ bogy_shashav @:

Soften it up with long range weapons. You are in no hurry...use your artillery to damage it first before rushing in.

not helpful, don't have enough ships left and the station (at least I know the ork station does) has huge range

[Bane191]

Originally posted by @ bogy_shashav @:

Soften it up with long range weapons. You are in no hurry...use your artillery to damage it first before rushing in.

Can't the defender field an infinite amount of escorts and deploy ten mines now, so won't kiting it just be a huge issue while your opponent sits back and just amasses an army of escorts?

[Vrakos Anthrakir]

Originally posted by Bane191:

Originally posted by @ bogy_shashav @:

Soften it up with long range weapons. You are in no hurry...use your artillery to damage it first before rushing in.

Can't the defender field an infinite amount of escorts and deploy ten mines now, so won't kiting it just be a huge issue while your opponent sits back and just amasses and army of escorts?

the length of time it takes to deploy the escorts is quite a while so amassing an army would last most of the match and some well placed bombs/nova cannon (I play imperial) can easily destroy escorts

[Big Boom Boom]

Focus on Station and bumrush it as soon as the game start.

[The Jedi]

I take down the attacker first...I try to keep away from the Station by setting the range on my ships to like 3k. Then I ram the station just for teh lolz

[Vrakos Anthrakir]

Originally posted by Primarch Vulkan:

I take down the attacker first...I try to keep away from the Station by setting the range on my ships to like 3k. Then I ram the station just for teh lolz

uh setting your ships' ranges to 3k does not keep you away from the space station by any means... not helpful. my issue is taking out the attackers first leaves me too weak to take on the station, so doubly unhelpful

[matamax]

Originally posted by Vrakos Anthrakir:

Originally posted by Primarch Vulkan:

I take down the attacker first...I try to keep away from the Station by setting the range on my ships to like 3k. Then I ram the station just for teh lolz

uh setting your ships' ranges to 3k does not keep you away from the space station by any means... not helpful. my issue is taking out the attackers first leaves me too weak to take on the station, so doubly unhelpful

find a way to draw the fleet out, u should be around twice their size. u should be able to drive them off in this circumstance with enough left to "pound long range all day", or just rush in. always take out platforms first cause they refill the stations sheilds on either strat.

[Warhunter]

depends on who you are playing as?
As imperial. nova cannons are very efficent in killing the station because its kind of hard to miss it

For chaos in my opinion use very long range ships (12-15k if possible) and bombard it from range. taking ships out of range before they lose their shields to recharge them

For orks? only thing i could think of is use your torpedoes as you approach (probably won't do much but i don't expect it really to help too much) and focus it down with boardings and heavy kannons. (idk if ramming works too well since i never felt like ramming a station)

[cafrank]

ive won a mach by killing all there ships

[Vrakos Anthrakir]

Originally posted by cafrank:

ive won a mach by killing all there ships

You can't win space station assault by destroying the enemy fleet

[Big Boom Boom]

I have won a 1 minute 45 seconds Space Station Assault without losing a single ship by bumrush, was on Imperium. 2 x Overlord 1 x Emperor 1 x Dauntless Mk I, bumrush it so hard the shield on station only recharged once before it exploded.

[Harukage]

To be honest i have a bit of a trouble with Station Assault as Chaos atacker after the stations buff. Free escorts are so annoying and constantly distract my ships, while station itself has 12000 units range on it's guns making me almost impossible to outrange it with anything but my Acheron battlecruiser with improved lenses. Last time i had lost almost all of my ships destroyed fighting against Imperium and only won by raming a station while firing heavy prow lance with my Despoiler battleship.

[Vrakos Anthrakir]

was on defence vs orks, I play imperium, lost within 4 minutes 'cause all of the ork ships rammed my station

[The Jedi]

well I am finding that all Orks do...Ram..and uh Ram ya hard (Boom Phrasing)