awesome video! and a very interesting fit. If you have a channel for condor squad please let me join it! Would love to go on a python romp with you guys sometime!!

*Dropships will be scoring transport based WP rewards (and yes they have more HP).

The channel name is......

This is how a pro Dropship squadron takes control of the field. A compilation of our battles together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzx4jb_wi_M

This is how a pro Dropship squadron takes control of the field. A compilation of our battles together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzx4jb_wi_M

You guys ever do Air Cav drops?

That was ******* awesome.
I want to spec into dropships but every time I try I'm pretty bad.

Impressive stuff, that guy you were chasing around 2:00 did pretty well though to survive the onslaught for as long as he did.

Maybe in the far future, people will re-discover the mythical "Explosive flying contraption that seeketh out other airborne units by magic or the grace of god"

Yeah, those after burners do help a lot when you need to get away. If you also notice, a lot the shots the were aimed on hit but because of the distance they kept blowing up before they reached him allowing him to survive much longer than if the missiles lasted a bit longer.

Not that I can remember... what does that consist of?

Loading up a tanked up Dropship with a Two heavies, two assaults, and Two Logi's and dropping troopers in waves on objectives or buildings, securing the area, taking the objective, and then getting a pick up afterwards to bail.

(This is Adamance)

what type of missiles were you using? i want to say fragmented, Accelerated has alot of range and is good for dropship to dropship engagements. Harder to hit infantry though

Wow, good job piloting but this looks like crap tbh.
The missiles seems uber hard to aim with, the UI doesn't help with it at all and most of the time your ship is in the way of aiming..

oh yes, we do normally run transportation but its mostly in PC or with corp mates. we do not approve of blueberries entering our dropships.

Similarly, vehicle roles will be reduced and then re-implemented properly once the base interactions are working well.

Impressive stuff, that guy you were chasing around 2:00 did pretty well though to survive the onslaught for as long as he did.

Maybe in the far future, people will re-discover the mythical "Explosive flying contraption that seeketh out other airborne units by magic or the grace of god"

AFK vs AFK , niiice

15 min to get 1 kill , dropshits are the WAY to GO

Damn it, why do I always end up missing these?

You missed the two tank kills?
And the several other enemy dropships killed?
If only this also showed those maps where Snugz, NG, and I just did ground moppin', if only

Yep, I love when I get an orbital in a 3 man squad, me an my gunners. Far from a 1 kill every 15 minutes.
What is your usual pub games scores by the way guys?

I usually end up with something like 7-0 when playing solo. sometime less sometime more. Best was something like 12-3-0 if I remember.

Great vid and great piloting. Id almost feel guilty blowing each and every one of you out the sky with my particle cannon.................................almost.

Wow that sucks, I'm apart of Condor but had no idea that was going on lol, cool though.

It was more luck that we came across that many ADS

How come you don't die by forge gunners and swarms?

it's called video editing :P

it's called video editing :P

Yeah, I agree with you there serimous, we need more condor squads out there, dropship squads are fun to fly with and against. O_O there's an idea, get 2 dropship squads and que on opposite sides of a merc battle, aerial brawl!

Dumb fire missiles make extremely poor air-to-air weapons. it's fun to see the explosions when they auto-detonate at their max range, but pretty doesn't equal effective. With the coming finite ammo it will be silly to even attempt it.

CCP will have to add another turret type or really buff the blaster range if dropship dogfights are going to happen. Perhaps an air-to-air lock-on missile that has high speed and short range (not that I want to encourage dropships to fight amongst themselves).

I'd have to completely disagree with the idea that missiles make extremely poor air-to-air weapons, they are the most effective and accurate weapon you can possibly put on your DS (if you're using XT-Accelerated's), however if by "dumb" you mean the ones that fire in 3's then yes i would agree that they are practically useless, but in dogfights the XT-Accelerated is basically your best bet if you want to win. When someone tries to use a blaster on me i just laugh.

Oh yeah you have to do it with an organised squad or it doesn't work. And one single DS can cover two squads if the pilot is quick enough, skilled enough, and ballsy enough.

It's the best turret available, but it's still a very poor choice.

I'm guessing there were 90% misses in the first two minutes of the dogfight, simply because slow moving rockets fired from a moving platform at a moving target at mid to long range involves as much luck as skill.

I'm not aware of any unguided a2a missiles in use today, though fighters do still sport guns.

While i do agree that right now our only good choice is those Accelerated's, and that there should really be more to chose from, Skill is actually pretty much 100% needed in leading the shots, and only a very little is actually luck. Since every shot fired from my DS is consistantly the same rate of speed, over-time in using it I have learned how to effectively lead the shots on moving dropships, and I can now say that I can confidently take out nearly any dropship that wants to try to run away from me, because i know how to keep landing the shots into their back-side even while they are dropping from the sky trying to escape. It's a lot more exciting that way, too.

This makes me sad. I understand that doing something like this with blueberries is a bad idea and all vehicle drivers/pilots agree, but why does it have to be that way? I'm sure they can develop some sort of system that makes it clearly obvious for blueberries what the pilot wants them to do.

fell asleep after 3.5 minutes, 3/10

fell asleep after 3.5 minutes, 3/10

No shield rep? I would have thought that would be suicidal. Im pretty new to being a dropship pilot, coming up towards 2 mil sp i think now, just wondering how you would rate my python build?

2 shield extenders
active shield hardner
shield booster
1 adv accelerated missile pilot gun
2 std accelerated missiles
2 small payload, a 7% and a 10%

This is my newest build, and seams to be working ok so far, just with the cost of running them I cant really play around with fits too much and really work out what works best without burning more isk than I have, any helps appreciated

No shield rep? I would have thought that would be suicidal. Im pretty new to being a dropship pilot, coming up towards 2 mil sp i think now, just wondering how you would rate my python build?

2 shield extenders
active shield hardner
shield booster
1 adv accelerated missile pilot gun
2 std accelerated missiles
2 small payload, a 7% and a 10%

This is my newest build, and seams to be working ok so far, just with the cost of running them I cant really play around with fits too much and really work out what works best without burning more isk than I have, any helps appreciated

This is how a pro Dropship squadron takes control of the field. A compilation of our battles together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzx4jb_wi_M

No afterburners?

@ Skihids, the Infamous Pilot Who Wrote The Greatest DS "How To" of all

If you observe the video, when that blaster Python got involved, it had to get very close, close to the point where hitting with missiles is much easier. It's not a good dogfight option. Blasters are best reserved for infantry use. You could probably use stabilized if you wanted but that is PG heavy.

Snugz like you said all we need now is some video of Condor ATG Work. Dibs on left turret.

Its actually easy to fix. Blueberries need to be in team chat. The main reason we dislike blueberries is because they dont listen... unfortunately the reason they cant listen is because either they are not on correct channel, or simply do not have a mic. If they did, I would be more than happy to play with blueberries.

I genuinely want to be a part of this.Please allow me to be a gunner in your ship. Give me a scattered blaster and I will destroy people.

Tonight went great, lots of fun with our wingmen. Look forward to doing this again more often. Working on better and more exciting video compilation and so far I like the footage I'm getting.

Excellent run tonight guys. Kudos to
taxirides
Sir Snugglz
Nguruthos IX
Numnutz
Serimos
and myself
EDIT: Don't forget Roger Pdaktir, he dropped. So did some one else but I can't remember who.

I fear that we will get too excited, overuse your recording card, break it, mope, then get another, rinse & repeat

Fizzer, gbghg has not told you about Condor Squad!?!

most fun I've had flying in a long time! great gunning bojo and amazing flying all around. I look forward to the next compilation! Multiple dropship tactics is something I've wanted to experiment with for a while now, if we continue flying these squadrons I'm sure the footage will get even better

However the issues arise after the drop even with blue dots who are listening. They cannot call targets, they cannot tell us if they are down, they cannot call for pick ups.

I would love for some of you DS pilots to roll with a well drilled and well meshed Air Cav team watching the carnage from a dropship on high is glorious.

Massed Teleport Attacks (aka using drop uplinks to spawn bomb and area), co-ordinated drops on multiple levels, aggressive drops, tactical drops. On a minimally defended objective you can have everything blue in under 30 seconds and be out of there and in the sky in another 30.

Contrary to reality if you aren't in and out in under a minute you aren't doing it right....

most fun I've had flying in a long time! great gunning bojo and amazing flying all around. I look forward to the next compilation! Multiple dropship tactics is something I've wanted to experiment with for a while now, if we continue flying these squadrons I'm sure the footage will get even better

Yeah last night was totally awesome, I'll be able to be on later tonight, probably around the same time as yesterday if you guys want to team up again.