I also don't know how powerful proton torpedoes really are. Since they're anti-capital ship weapons, I can imagine their explosive power and blast radius would be pretty high, so maybe it'd be overkill to employ them against small ground targets (think a big, 1000kg bunker buster against a T-65 ;) ). Maybe if an 'anti-tank' proton torpedo was made that carried a lighter load, that'd be a better idea?

Which was the case of the entire Battle of Hoth. There were for some reason not even TIE fighters deployed in orbit to interdict Alliance vessels leaving the planet.

Oh, they will be.... they will be

Just didn't count on that Ion Cannon.

I stand corrected, then. Air surpremacy seems to be more accurate:

Which was the case of the entire Battle of Hoth. There were for some reason not even TIE fighters deployed in orbit to interdict Alliance vessels leaving the planet.

I'm very curious to see if the developers make anything of this. It'd be quite fun to have in-game.

I had this idea for the late Warp mod. It featured an invisible small ship called a "Stealth Ship", which primary feature was its invisibility. Now, I suggested that this ship might have a laser beam with which to "paint" the cap ship it had sneaked up on. Then another class of cap ships would have heavy, long-range torpedoes that were usually unguided, but which could lock on to ships that had been "painted" with a laser beam.

This would allow for a stealth ship to sneak up on a big cruiser and paint it, for then to have the torpedo-carrying cap ship let loose a torpedo salvo from far, far away and blow the target to smithereens.

I don't think anything similar can be applied to Star Wars, but I felt like sharing it nonetheless.

The developers have stated that there won't be Imperial fighters on Hoth as they'll be doing their utmost to stick with Star Wars lore. It looks like the Rebels will be enjoying total air superiority, unlike in GC.

Good idea!

I might set it up a little differently though. I think maybe having a recon "spot" targets would be a better way.

Kinda like laser targeting.

So like on a hoth map, an imp would have to get in close and setup a laser beacon on the power plant. Then you could target the beacon with the torpedoes from your ship.

It might be cool if the commander could drop a beacon or could send out a droid or two to act as beacons.

Maybe even make it so the only way the commander can drop artillery is near a deployed beacon. Would make it harder to spam art everywhere..

This might work on space maps as well.. A recon can get onto an enemy ship and can plant a beacon on it to make it an easier target for torpedoes to hit.

This is exactly what was said in the DCon forums. A target would be painted, and a F/A-117 would drop a laser guided missile and hit the target within a range.

Not sure how easy or difficult it would be to implement in FirstStrike however.

After all, the more squeezey pooh we request, the longer we'll have to wait.

I might set it up a little differently though. I think maybe having a recon "spot" targets would be a better way.

Kinda like laser targeting.

So like on a hoth map, an imp would have to get in close and setup a laser beacon on the power plant. Then you could target the beacon with the torpedoes from your ship.

It might be cool if the commander could drop a beacon or could send out a droid or two to act as beacons.

Maybe even make it so the only way the commander can drop artillery is near a deployed beacon. Would make it harder to spam art everywhere..

This might work on space maps as well.. A recon can get onto an enemy ship and can plant a beacon on it to make it an easier target for torpedoes to hit.

I believe the DCon mod was talking about this

What's DCon short for? Is it the sequel to Desert Combat, or am I way off?