Missile Boats

What can a Missile Boat do?

Besides having a lot of missiles, I hear it has a RAM or SCRAM system that allows it to travel at high speeds. Care to elaborate?

 

SLAM drive I think.

 

That's the word.

 

The shields were uber powerful. They could take multiple turbolaser hits.

 

The SLAM system drains power from the lasers and diverts it to the engines. The Missile boat is already faster than a TIE Defender. By engaging the SLAM a Missile Boat travels at twice to three times it's top speed, allowing it to get out of range quickly. However, the SLAM can only be activated if there is power to the lasers, and it stays activated until the lasers are out of power. You then have to recharge the lasers before you can use it again.

 

Didn't they have 100 proton torps?

 

Two banks of missile batteries that contained 20 Adv. Concussion Missiles and 20 Heavy Assault Rockets.

 

No. It's been a while since I played TIE Fighter, but if memory serves, it could carry something like forty torps and 16 rockets.

 

http://www.stormsxwa.com/mb.html

some stats on it if you're interested.

 

Missile Boats where a radically updated StarWing Assault Gunboat designed by Grand Admiral Thrawn to counter the threat of the renegade Grand Admiral Zaarin's Tie Defenders.

Missile Boats where very maneverable and fast, surpassing the A-Wing and nearing the Tie Defender in this department.

They had the most powerful shields on a starfighter ever, including in the time of the New Jedi Order.

The carried to minuturized and adapted assault battery warhead launchers. One battery always had 40 Advanced Concussion Missiles. The other one could carry either another 40 Advanced Concussion Missiles, 30 Advanced Proton Torpedoes, 20 Heavy Rockets, 10 Space Bombs, or 30 Magpulse Torpedoes.

Missles boats had a disadvantage while dogfightning in only having 1 laser. Had they had more, they would have been the ultimate dogfighters

Missile Boats usually had a starfighter level tractor beam for dealing with other starfighters during dogfighting, to limit there speed and manevuerability

Missle Boats where equipped with a new engine design called SLAMS. They channeled laser energy directly from the laser cannon into the engines. This drained the laser quickly but hurled the missle boat at double its current speed. With shields and lasers at maximum charge, by redirectly all power to the engines, engaging slams, and then by sending power from the shields to the lasers, a Missle Boat could obtain speeds 4 1/2 times that of a A-Wing fighter for several minutes or longer.

Missle Boats where also equipped with the most advanced targetting computers, sensor system, and high grade armor.

Unfortunately, only a small handfull of these where ever built before the Battle of Endor. They where shipped to a secure location after several near successful attempts by the Rebellion, Zaarin, and others nearly captured Missle Boat technology.

Missile Boats where flown by the best of the best of the best of Imperial Fighter pilots. Had a sqaudron of them be at the Battle of Endor, it might have ended differently even with the death of the Emperor and Lord Vader. Had the purusing Tie Interceptor that was chasing Wedge and Lando in the death star been a Missle Boat, it would have emptyed Advanced Concussion Missiles into them instead of laser blastes, blowing there ships apart before they could have reached the power core

 

Ok thanks.

Here's another question. Do the Chiss have these SLAMS equipped on their ships?

I remember reading something like that in SotP.

 

Possible, but unlikely. All info on the SLAM probably had the highest level of security placed on it. However, it's not unlikely that Thrawn could not have mentioned the SLAM system and had Chiss engineers under his command duplicate the operations of the SLAM, with the possibility of not draining the lasers.

 

maybe we'll see it again...one day.......................LOOK AT MY SIG!!!

 

I thought the Missile Boat had 80 concussion missiles and some other stuff...

 

Whats SotP? Spector of the Past?

 

The missle boat had a default loadout, but it could be loaded with other types of warheads if the missions needed it.

 

In Specter when Mara and Luke escape from the pirate base the see a ship looking at them. They go to check it out, but the ship goes very fast, but not lightspeed and escapes. I was thinking maybe that was a SLAM system.

 

Like I said already, Thrawn probably couldn't get his hands on the data for the SLAM, even though he seems to have been involved with the Missile Boat's development (remember what I said earlier about it being sometime since I played TIE Fighter, can't remember if he was actually involved or just involved with it's testing and only TOD). However, he had an understanding of how it worked, and brought that with him to the UR. He probably had a Chiss equivalent created, one that may well have eliminated the need to drain the laser systems in order to work.