First Strike Forums — The Lambda

Re: The Lambda

2008-05-26T17:02:01Z

Safe-Keeper wrote:

Give the Imps... enough TIE Fighters to counter the T-47s

Then they would need like, a million TIEs.

I like to go back to base and repair, but I will do a field repair if need be.

Re: The Lambda

2008-05-26T16:33:08Z

I'm also for fewer ships and stronger Lambda...Just as long as I get that 1 TIE bomber. And yes, I prefer to repair in the field.

Re: The Lambda

2008-05-26T15:25:52Z

I think the lambda needs alot more hp's. Im in favour of cutting the number of fighters aswell.

Re: The Lambda

2008-05-26T12:03:37Z

I have a secret hidey hole for doing that sort of thing. I also use it to repair my ship rather than go back to the hangar. Anyone else repair in the battlefield or do you go back to the hangar?

Re: The Lambda

2008-05-26T11:59:34Z

Hmm. I'm in favour of less fighters on Ryloth, and it will help.

less fighters means more T1-B missiles per fighter, as per the laws of supply and demand, and that would include the lambda too.

Seriously, supply box + T1-B = missile spam= killz. Unless some tie fighter RAM KILLS your tank.. twice.

Re: The Lambda

2008-05-26T11:43:18Z

I say drastically cut down the number of fighters on Ryloth. Give the Rebs one Y-Wing and one or two T-47s. Give the Imps one TIE Bomber and enough TIE Fighters to counter the T-47s. This'll result in more players on the ground, which'll result in more actual combat and taking of CPs and less dogfighting - and a longer-lasting Lambda.

I'll download the 1.25, not that I can play it with my Internet as slow as it currently is. Hopefully the Lambda will have a more prominent role now .

Re: The Lambda

2008-05-26T03:09:29Z

The problem in 1.2 was a) it's a rediculously huge slow target, so it usually draws in a large amount of flak and b) it wasn't nearly strong enough to deal with that flak. Hopefully with this 1.25 patch it'll live long enough to be useful.

I'd definitely also like to put it on a far less air-intensive map, so it can act as is designed: a massive flying bunker. If left to doing that I think it'd really come into its own.

Re: The Lambda

2008-05-25T20:41:50Z

I'm starting to get the hang of it, I'll start you off with a mildly interesting story.

I flew it out, we had a textbook landing and took rebel bunker. I then flew us off to mines where i learned that using my throttle and 'W, S' keys together I could thrust fowrard a little to adjust LZ.
I got seperated from the squad later but spawned back on my squadleader, Gurd, as we were being chased back to base by some airspeeders.

We had a full crew almost and blowing up would have been disasterous... luckily witha little creative flying from gurd and some jammy tail-gunning from me , we managed to kill one of our pursuers and reach the safety of the shield with about 10% hull left.

Kudos to the invisible ground crew who repaired our ship as we hovered over the platform.

Leaving with full health, our victory was marred slightly by an over enthusiastic squadmate trying to leave the lambda in flight....:S

Re: The Lambda

2008-05-25T20:41:14Z

We had just finished dropping off troops on ryloth, when we decided to pick up these olive-colored chicks with strange hair. We set down on a high, remote plateau after they started to remove our imperial uniforms ... I kept asking them if they wanted to learn to fly , but I think they had other Ideas.

The Lambda

2008-05-25T20:19:11Z

Anyone have any success stories with the Lambda yet? When testing, I envisioned some grand scenes of the thing moving in over a hostile CP, guns blazing, landing only barely long to deploy troops who then proceeded to attack the CP, then taking off to lay down more suppressing fire.

Now that the mod has been out for some time, people surely must be starting to figure out how to start and fly the thing. Anyone got any good Lambda stories to share?