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pa...@octopus.et.tudelft.nl (Paul de Koning) wrote:
>In article <43n4eu$8...@lassen.cnw.com> JPF <j...@rainier.cnw.com> writes:
>
>>I'm stuck on a mission on the second disk of WC3.  It's the one after the
>>Victory has been hiding in the Nebula and you're supposed to escort the Victory
>>back to Confed space.  Well, the third combat sequence has somebody (I haven't
>>figure out who) firing a "skipper" missle at the Victory.  I've tried to fight
>>off the fighters and shoot down the skipper missle.  I've tried taking out the
>>corvette as fast a possible so he's not within range of the Victory, in case
>>he's the one who fires the missle.  I've played the scenario about 15 times and
>>every time the skipper hits.  I'm getting pretty desperate at this point!
>>Anyone out there been there, done that?
>
>The corvette fires the missile before you can possibly kill it. Order your 
>wingman to take care of the fighters, and continue towards the corvette. On 
>your radar display you can see the skipper missile as a yellow dot. 
>
>Your wingman is probably somewhere behind you, so you can identify the skipper 
>from normal missiles because it's the only one in front of you. Lock it up, 
>and shoot at it until it explodes or disappears.
>
>If it disappears, lock on the Victory, and burn towards it. The skipper will 
>follow roughly the same path, and should be somewhere in front or behind you. 
>Lock it up and shoot at it. It appears 3 times, the last just before it hits. 
>Try to lock a missile on it if you cannot hit it with guns.
>
>In this case, fire volume is better than fire power, so use only a single pair 
>of guns. A hard kill on the skipper is the best way to continue. Did you take 
>out the skipper on the medical frigate in mission 4 of 5 (or so)? And the Bio 
>Haz missiles on Locanda?
>

Thanks to everyone who posted.  I did get past that mission, and am on three or
four missions down the game.  I don't have enough time to play it tho!  I don't
recall a skipper earlier in the game, maybe I got the frigate before he was in
position to fire, I don't know.  I did get the bio hazard missles earlier in
the game.  

Thanks again,

Jim