death star of woe!!!!!

[lawbreaker]

forgive this noob question, but me and my wife recently bought star wars empires at war gold edition and we've been playing forces of corruption campaign over lan, but whoever plays the empire we build the death star and we just can't figure out a way to stop the freakin' thing.

is there something obvious we're over looking? even if we destroy the fleet it's in they won't let us attack it, so it just goes around blowing planets up. could somebody give us some tips on how to deal with it? we'd really appreciate any assistance, thanks.

[valacan]

Red squadron can automatically destroy it.

[lawbreaker]

thanks for the help man, is red squadron something that we have to build or something?

[theJoker@ARP]

thanks for the help man, is red squadron something that we have to build or something?

Rogue(not Red) Squadron is a hero unit available to the "Rebel Alliance" faction. I believe its unlocked as you progress through the tech levels by using the "C3P0 & R2D2" unit to steal technology from the Empire. It will most likely unlock around the 4th or 5th tech level.

[lawbreaker]

thanks joker, at least we know it can be taken out now. though i just found out the hard way that if you lose rogue squadron fighting in some random battle you don't appear to get them back.

[theJoker@ARP]

thanks joker, at least we know it can be taken out now. though i just found out the hard way that if you lose rogue squadron fighting in some random battle you don't appear to get them back.

That may or may not be true. Heroes, especially very special ones such as Rogue Squadron(as they can take out the Death Star) may take a very long time to respawn after being killed in combat. If he is totally gone, that might be a design flaw and your poop out of luck, but its fairly unlikely that is the case.

[lawbreaker]

i've noticed that heroes that respawn their picture stays up in the top right corner with a little countdown timer showing when they'll be back. but with the rogue squadron it was just gone, and after an hour or so they still hadn't come back. maybe it was just a glitch but i doubt it.

i definitely won't use the rogue squadron in normal engagements now, which kind of blows, but no biggie.

[taukarrie]

Word has it that that sometimes, even when their portrait disapears, they'll steal respawn... sometimes. Its a pretty horrible bug since it can leave the rebelion helpless against the death star

Unfortunately petroglyph doesn't appear to support the game any more so don't expect this bug to ever be fixed

[lawbreaker]

sorry taukarrie i just saw your reply.

yeah it's pretty unbelievable, we've just stopped building the death star all together.

by the way, is there a way for the other team to kill the death star? i can't remember their names, the yellow guys?

the game could really be cool, if it had another six months in development that is.

[RogueJedi86]

For the Zann Consortium, IG-88 can hijack/destroy it, in a nod to his EU role with the DS2(not spoiling what he did, but you can get part of the idea from what I just told you).

[lawbreaker]

definitely didn't know that roguejedi86, thanks for the info.