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Any shield should be able to stop them...I can do that mission without a
scratch, not boasting just stating a fact! Are you still relying on the
class 1 shield and ship you start with?

You've probably been facing Liberty Rogues up til now, they use laser based
weapons and the graviton shield you've already got stops lasers like a brick
wall...
However, Liberty Rogues aren't a major problem in California, if you look at
the names that come up they are Outcasts. Outcasts tend to use Tachyon based
and Particle based weapons (at least the ones I face do!)
Which means that if you really are in desperate straights try a shield
that's strong v particle guns and/or tachyon guns. The tachyon guns do vast
amounts of damage, a class 4/5 tachyon gun can easily top 200 hull damage
whilst a laser of the same class only makes 80 hull damage...lasers though
have it on the refire rate a Laser can put 4 shots into you in the time that
a Tachyon cannon takes to fire twice! Outcasts also modify their particle
and tachyon cannons to increase damage losing out on range and refire...The
daggers you are probably facing also carry 6 cannons up front so they can be
real pains in the nether regions...probably not filling you with confidence?
Don't despair!

The only way to do it seriously is to get something big and heavy with 5/6
cannons on the front and blast the crap out of them in the first pass, I've
done that mission in a fully equipped Rhino freighter (3 cannons and 5
turrets firing together makes a bloody big hole in anything). Try to mount
cannons that are strong against the shield that you've chosen (i.e. your
shields are weakest against the cannons you've mounted) All the FL opponents
believe that everyone uses their type of weapon so have a shield that stops
their guns cold and guns that make their shields look like paper! Thus blow
away one or two in one pass and the rest go more defensive...

Hope this is of some help?

Maverick
"Paul & Victoria Heisner" <vheisner@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>
> Greetings once again:
>
> I am doing the mission with Juni escorting 2 freighters with artifacts
> after launching from CA minor (you don't seem to have a choice to do
> some other missions before meeting her), we do 2 waypoints, at the
> 3rd, suprise, suprise, the bad guys come out.  I have done this one
> about 6 times in a row and always get creamed pretty quickly.
> Now, before I put the computer through the wall, what am I doing
> wrong?
>
> She has me engage the enemy, I can kill one or two, I use up my shield
> and bot supplies pretty quickly, my shields tend to get nailed pretty
> damn fast, is there a type of shield I should use against these
> certain bad guys, they seem to hit really hard and faster than
> anything eles seems to.
>
> The game isn't any fun if I keep dying really quick every time.
>
> Thank you for you help!
>
> Paul C. Heisner