Hypervelocity weapons VS Death Star - a possible solution?

[Athanasios]

Simple thought, if ground hypervelocity weapons (hw for short) can blow up whole space station......if space hw can fire among the galaxy (probably) or at least wipe out whole SSDs.......if they look so "no-to-underestimate" super weapons......well, could they handle 1v1 the Death Star?

 

If yes, and if they can fire among close galaxy, i could wipe it out even before it comes in orbit. If not, i would blow it up when it comes in orbit (since ground hw fire in-orbit enemy stations).

[popcorn2008]

I highly doubt that. If I understand correctly the HW cannot fire inter-planetary but nothing has been released supporting either case. The Death Star is much bigger than your average space station, so I dont think it could entirely kill the thing. In real life it may be able to hurt it a little, but in EaW I bet they cant even interact (HW v. Death Star).

[darthfergie]

No, I don't think so to both counts. If you remember, the Ion Cannon on Hoth fired at a star destroyer knocking it out temporarily, etc. A star destroyer is far smaller than a death star. I think an ion cannon/planetary weapon could put a dent in the death star, but a dent much the equivalent to a frieghter crashing dead on into the superstructure. The death star took plenty of hits in the attack in ANH, there is just so much of it that the outer area is almost like armor. These planetary emplacements, to my understanding, are nothing more than large turbolasers. They'll do damage to star destroyers sure enough, but I don't think they'll pack a punch large enough to hurt the Death Star considerably. Also I'm not even sure they will allow the Death Star to be attacked normally (as in rebellion where the death star is only on the edge of vision during the main sequence of the battle), I can only see fighter squadrons really doing the attacking. I think EAW might be over estimating their power by showing the space station blowing up with just one shot, but they're doing it for the sake of gameplay methinks.

 

(also a side note, I'm not so sure about the Ion Cannon in ESB, it's power may be the equivalent to regular Ion Cannon honestly because I'm not entirely sure that the star destroyer they hit actually had shields up or not. /random)

[popcorn2008]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well darthfergie. The Death Star will most likely be just like it was in Rebellion, were only star fighters could interact with it.

[Athanasios]

But wouldn't a hw open a big "small" (in diameter relavitely to DS' one) but in-depth hole really hurt DS? It could actually reach the main core.......that's what im thinking, since we don't have any attack points/armor points of hw and DS.

[Admiral Sith]

Uh there is no Space Version, there is just a Ground Ion Cannon, Hypervelocity Gun, and that other one. According to Delphi-PG anyway.

[THrawn((9]

yeah and i seriously doubt that they will be able to hit the DS because it doesnt have to enter orbit of the planet to hit it where as the range is orbit for the guns.

[shadowsfm]

well, then ill be the only one that thinks its an easy death star counter. you seen the video. it was over kill to the space station.

[darthfergie]

well, then ill be the only one that thinks its an easy death star counter. you seen the video. it was over kill to the space station.

 

I don't really think space stations were designed with combat in mind. Also it was a demonstration video, we have no idea if the health of the station was lowered as to see the eye candy of a space station blowing up. If they've designed those cannons to be able to take out a star destroyer in one shot (which is a heck of a lot of resources wasted in a split second), then expect those things to be almost as rare as the death star. Hopefully their power is much more limited than appears on the video so we'll have a wider use of them.

[Thrawn]

I dunno, I like the idea of them being that powerful. That way, you'd have and pick and choose very carefully which planets you are going to defend to the death.

[Athanasios]

Uh there is no Space Version, there is just a Ground Ion Cannon, Hypervelocity Gun, and that other one. According to Delphi-PG anyway.

 

If you carefully see at LEC's site the "weapons" section, you'll notice that there are two versions of the hw: one for ground and one for space. Just scroll down a bit.

 

And yep, i would like hw to be very powerful (not like a DS ofcourse). This way, rebs can have a good super weapon. Besides, ion cannons temporarily freezes a ships, it doesnt hurt its scull and it's mainly used to suppord ships while in battle.

[Jan Gaarni]

That is incorrect, there is only 1 type of HV gun, the ground based one.

 

Confirmed by PG.

[artisen12]

Actually they used to have one that said HV Gun(Space)

[alecsuba]

Delphi the Multiplayer Dev for EAW stated the Hypervelocity gun is an Imperial Weapon only to be a counter to the Rebels Ion Cannon. Also he stated the Space version was a mistake as its only ground based

[Stival Discipal]

Hypervelocity weapons will probably have absolutely no effect on the DS. The way to destroy the DS will be the before-mentioned trench-run. Seriously doubt that the dev's will allow hypervelocity weapons with that kind of power, and range. That being said, we can only speculate...

[Teradyn]

alecsuba got it right, this is a non-issue because the Empire will be the only ones with a Hypervelocity gun.