Talk:UFO Interception - Revision history

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 :*'''Quantity''': If the UFOs arrive one at a time with days between landings, you can go after them while landed as there isn't a rush. What throws a spanner into the works is when the ships arrive in a big wave or group. If all of them are going to land, you can probably get to at least a couple before the rest take off and leave for good so I usually shoot down most of them and leave a couple. Visit the landed ones first, then go after the crashed ones when time permits. --[[User:Zombie|Zombie]] ([[User talk:Zombie|talk]]) 03:52, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
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Magic9mushroom: /* Speed in interception window */ new section

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	--[[User:Sfnhltb\|Sfnhltb]] 20:03, 28 February 2007 (PST)		--[[User:Sfnhltb\|Sfnhltb]] 20:03, 28 February 2007 (PST)

			== Speed in interception window ==

			Not sure where to put this. But:

			When you're reeling a UFO in, it gets closer at 2 range units (1/4 km) per frame.

			When you're reeling a UFO out (going back to a more cautious mode), it gets further away at 4 range units (1/2 km) per frame.

			When a UFO is ''escaping'', it gets further away at 8 range units (1 km) per frame.

			[[User:Magic9mushroom\|Magic9mushroom]] ([[User talk:Magic9mushroom\|talk]]) 13:56, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Zombie: /* When do most people bother intercepting? */ Formatting.

2016-05-09T03:54:43Z

When do most people bother intercepting?: Formatting.

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	:I agree with a lot of points everyone brings up. For me, the decision to intercept instead of going for the landed UFO or ignoring it altogether is situational. Mostly it depends on UFO mission type, craft type, location, severity and quantity.		:I agree with a lot of points everyone brings up. For me, the decision to intercept instead of going for the landed UFO or ignoring it altogether is situational. Mostly it depends on UFO mission type, craft type, location, severity and quantity.

	'''Mission Type''': Early in the game you need points to keep your score up in order to eclipse what the aliens can manage themselves and you also need alloys/elerium/bodies/weapons etc for research/manufacturing/funds. If a mission UFO is going to land, I'll wait for it to do so. Why bother wasting a missile on it? (Pending night time missions may prompt an interception to make things safer/easier). Obviously, if there is going to be a Terror Mission, I'd much rather shoot the UFO down so I don't have to deal with the hefty penalty if the mission goes pear shaped, or to defend the stupid civilians. Alien Resupply? C'mon, it always lands so you might as well wait (or ignore). Retaliation? Might as well shoot everything down, you don't want to lose country funding. Research? Ignore for the most part, unless nothing is going on. Harvest? Wait - most land and the ships are easy to recover. Abduction? I normally shoot these down if possible. While not overly critical, I don't want the aliens to get too many points. Alien base building? Yeah, I'll try to, especially with the tougher races. Otherwise the base itself is faster to take out than the UFOs building it.		:*'''Mission Type''': Early in the game you need points to keep your score up in order to eclipse what the aliens can manage themselves and you also need alloys/elerium/bodies/weapons etc for research/manufacturing/funds. If a mission UFO is going to land, I'll wait for it to do so. Why bother wasting a missile on it? (Pending night time missions may prompt an interception to make things safer/easier). Obviously, if there is going to be a Terror Mission, I'd much rather shoot the UFO down so I don't have to deal with the hefty penalty if the mission goes pear shaped, or to defend the stupid civilians. Alien Resupply? C'mon, it always lands so you might as well wait (or ignore). Retaliation? Might as well shoot everything down, you don't want to lose country funding. Research? Ignore for the most part, unless nothing is going on. Harvest? Wait - most land and the ships are easy to recover. Abduction? I normally shoot these down if possible. While not overly critical, I don't want the aliens to get too many points. Alien base building? Yeah, I'll try to, especially with the tougher races. Otherwise the base itself is faster to take out than the UFOs building it.

	'''Craft Type''': With Small Scouts, it's faster to just shoot them down and destroy them outright rather than waste an X-COM ship with weaker weapons on it. Medium or Large Scouts I'll try to let land. Same for harvesters or abductors. As I mentioned above, wait for the Supply Ships to land and shoot down the Terror Ships. Battleships are the only ship where I have to make a decision on it. Can my troops handle it? Can my ships handle it? Will it land on it's own? What is the race? What is the mission? Those all factor into a final decision.		:*'''Craft Type''': With Small Scouts, it's faster to just shoot them down and destroy them outright rather than waste an X-COM ship with weaker weapons on it. Medium or Large Scouts I'll try to let land. Same for harvesters or abductors. As I mentioned above, wait for the Supply Ships to land and shoot down the Terror Ships. Battleships are the only ship where I have to make a decision on it. Can my troops handle it? Can my ships handle it? Will it land on it's own? What is the race? What is the mission? Those all factor into a final decision.

	'''Location''': If an alien mission is being carried out halfway around the world, I'm more likely to shoot it down as it takes time for the Skyranger to get there.		:*'''Location''': If an alien mission is being carried out halfway around the world, I'm more likely to shoot it down as it takes time for the Skyranger to get there.

	'''Severity''': As mentioned above, a mission with a higher severity will be met with interceptions.		:*'''Severity''': As mentioned above, a mission with a higher severity will be met with interceptions.

	'''Quantity''': If the UFOs arrive one at a time with days between landings, you can go after them while landed as there isn't a rush. What throws a spanner into the works is when the ships arrive in a big wave or group. If all of them are going to land, you can probably get to at least a couple before the rest take off and leave for good so I usually shoot down most of them and leave a couple. Visit the landed ones first, then go after the crashed ones when time permits. --[[User:Zombie\|Zombie]] ([[User talk:Zombie\|talk]]) 03:52, 9 May 2016 (UTC)		:*'''Quantity''': If the UFOs arrive one at a time with days between landings, you can go after them while landed as there isn't a rush. What throws a spanner into the works is when the ships arrive in a big wave or group. If all of them are going to land, you can probably get to at least a couple before the rest take off and leave for good so I usually shoot down most of them and leave a couple. Visit the landed ones first, then go after the crashed ones when time permits. --[[User:Zombie\|Zombie]] ([[User talk:Zombie\|talk]]) 03:52, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

	=Misc=		=Misc=

Zombie: /* When do most people bother intercepting? */ A few reasons.

2016-05-09T03:52:57Z

When do most people bother intercepting?: A few reasons.

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	Oh, something else that factors in that I forgot to mention: interception draws Retaliation, while Ground Assaults don't. Intercepting too early on Superhuman is one of the more plausible ways to lose outright, because if you get a Sectoid Retaliation on your main base in January you'll have a very hard time recovering. Later on, of course, the Retaliation spiral (Retaliation -> shoot down scouts to avoid Base Defence -> more Retaliation) is a good thing for X-Com, but starting it too early is suicide. I know my first attempt at TFTD Superhuman came to an ignominious end that way. [[User:Magic9mushroom\|Magic9mushroom]] ([[User talk:Magic9mushroom\|talk]]) 01:22, 7 May 2016 (UTC)		Oh, something else that factors in that I forgot to mention: interception draws Retaliation, while Ground Assaults don't. Intercepting too early on Superhuman is one of the more plausible ways to lose outright, because if you get a Sectoid Retaliation on your main base in January you'll have a very hard time recovering. Later on, of course, the Retaliation spiral (Retaliation -> shoot down scouts to avoid Base Defence -> more Retaliation) is a good thing for X-Com, but starting it too early is suicide. I know my first attempt at TFTD Superhuman came to an ignominious end that way. [[User:Magic9mushroom\|Magic9mushroom]] ([[User talk:Magic9mushroom\|talk]]) 01:22, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

			:I agree with a lot of points everyone brings up. For me, the decision to intercept instead of going for the landed UFO or ignoring it altogether is situational. Mostly it depends on UFO mission type, craft type, location, severity and quantity.

			'''Mission Type''': Early in the game you need points to keep your score up in order to eclipse what the aliens can manage themselves and you also need alloys/elerium/bodies/weapons etc for research/manufacturing/funds. If a mission UFO is going to land, I'll wait for it to do so. Why bother wasting a missile on it? (Pending night time missions may prompt an interception to make things safer/easier). Obviously, if there is going to be a Terror Mission, I'd much rather shoot the UFO down so I don't have to deal with the hefty penalty if the mission goes pear shaped, or to defend the stupid civilians. Alien Resupply? C'mon, it always lands so you might as well wait (or ignore). Retaliation? Might as well shoot everything down, you don't want to lose country funding. Research? Ignore for the most part, unless nothing is going on. Harvest? Wait - most land and the ships are easy to recover. Abduction? I normally shoot these down if possible. While not overly critical, I don't want the aliens to get too many points. Alien base building? Yeah, I'll try to, especially with the tougher races. Otherwise the base itself is faster to take out than the UFOs building it.

			'''Craft Type''': With Small Scouts, it's faster to just shoot them down and destroy them outright rather than waste an X-COM ship with weaker weapons on it. Medium or Large Scouts I'll try to let land. Same for harvesters or abductors. As I mentioned above, wait for the Supply Ships to land and shoot down the Terror Ships. Battleships are the only ship where I have to make a decision on it. Can my troops handle it? Can my ships handle it? Will it land on it's own? What is the race? What is the mission? Those all factor into a final decision.

			'''Location''': If an alien mission is being carried out halfway around the world, I'm more likely to shoot it down as it takes time for the Skyranger to get there.

			'''Severity''': As mentioned above, a mission with a higher severity will be met with interceptions.

			'''Quantity''': If the UFOs arrive one at a time with days between landings, you can go after them while landed as there isn't a rush. What throws a spanner into the works is when the ships arrive in a big wave or group. If all of them are going to land, you can probably get to at least a couple before the rest take off and leave for good so I usually shoot down most of them and leave a couple. Visit the landed ones first, then go after the crashed ones when time permits. --[[User:Zombie\|Zombie]] ([[User talk:Zombie\|talk]]) 03:52, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

	=Misc=		=Misc=

Magic9mushroom: /* When do most people bother intercepting? */

2016-05-07T01:22:27Z

When do most people bother intercepting?

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	I don't find it difficult at all. You usually detect UFOs on the flight in (or on the flight out, but in that case you can't do anything about them anyway). When you detect it, you send an Interceptor to shadow it and a Skyranger to the area it seems to be heading for, changing it to intercept when it gets close enough. Maximum time for the Skyranger to arrive in any location is 14 hours and it's usually a lot less; you'll generally be detecting the UFOs 4-5 hours before they land and they land for several hours. It's rare that you'll actually be unable to get there until you're dealing with actual antipodes (and at the point you're running Hyper-Wave Decoders on six continents, you're in most cases getting instant detection on UFO appearance, giving you significantly more time). [[User:Magic9mushroom\|Magic9mushroom]] ([[User talk:Magic9mushroom\|talk]]) 06:39, 7 April 2016 (UTC)		I don't find it difficult at all. You usually detect UFOs on the flight in (or on the flight out, but in that case you can't do anything about them anyway). When you detect it, you send an Interceptor to shadow it and a Skyranger to the area it seems to be heading for, changing it to intercept when it gets close enough. Maximum time for the Skyranger to arrive in any location is 14 hours and it's usually a lot less; you'll generally be detecting the UFOs 4-5 hours before they land and they land for several hours. It's rare that you'll actually be unable to get there until you're dealing with actual antipodes (and at the point you're running Hyper-Wave Decoders on six continents, you're in most cases getting instant detection on UFO appearance, giving you significantly more time). [[User:Magic9mushroom\|Magic9mushroom]] ([[User talk:Magic9mushroom\|talk]]) 06:39, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

			Oh, something else that factors in that I forgot to mention: interception draws Retaliation, while Ground Assaults don't. Intercepting too early on Superhuman is one of the more plausible ways to lose outright, because if you get a Sectoid Retaliation on your main base in January you'll have a very hard time recovering. Later on, of course, the Retaliation spiral (Retaliation -> shoot down scouts to avoid Base Defence -> more Retaliation) is a good thing for X-Com, but starting it too early is suicide. I know my first attempt at TFTD Superhuman came to an ignominious end that way. [[User:Magic9mushroom\|Magic9mushroom]] ([[User talk:Magic9mushroom\|talk]]) 01:22, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

	=Misc=		=Misc=

Magic9mushroom: /* When do most people bother intercepting? */

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When do most people bother intercepting?

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	: I think this is really best left up to the judgement of the player as the ability to get to a landed UFO can be quite situational. In the early game, unless you are plain lucky or have lots of bases, your Skyranger is most likely not going to be able get to every landed UFO in time. You need the ability to shoot down the UFOs in this instance if only to get some work at the lesser reward. Later in the game you have more options on how to approach the UFOs as you spread out and get better tech to find and deal with them. This is when you can start going for landed UFOs. Much later into the game you'll have enough resources that you end up shooting down the UFOs down simply for the sake of shooting them down and ignoring the crash sites. [[User:NKF\|NKF]] ([[User talk:NKF\|talk]]) 06:11, 7 April 2016 (UTC)		: I think this is really best left up to the judgement of the player as the ability to get to a landed UFO can be quite situational. In the early game, unless you are plain lucky or have lots of bases, your Skyranger is most likely not going to be able get to every landed UFO in time. You need the ability to shoot down the UFOs in this instance if only to get some work at the lesser reward. Later in the game you have more options on how to approach the UFOs as you spread out and get better tech to find and deal with them. This is when you can start going for landed UFOs. Much later into the game you'll have enough resources that you end up shooting down the UFOs down simply for the sake of shooting them down and ignoring the crash sites. [[User:NKF\|NKF]] ([[User talk:NKF\|talk]]) 06:11, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

			I don't find it difficult at all. You usually detect UFOs on the flight in (or on the flight out, but in that case you can't do anything about them anyway). When you detect it, you send an Interceptor to shadow it and a Skyranger to the area it seems to be heading for, changing it to intercept when it gets close enough. Maximum time for the Skyranger to arrive in any location is 14 hours and it's usually a lot less; you'll generally be detecting the UFOs 4-5 hours before they land and they land for several hours. It's rare that you'll actually be unable to get there until you're dealing with actual antipodes (and at the point you're running Hyper-Wave Decoders on six continents, you're in most cases getting instant detection on UFO appearance, giving you significantly more time). [[User:Magic9mushroom\|Magic9mushroom]] ([[User talk:Magic9mushroom\|talk]]) 06:39, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

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NKF: /* When do most people bother intercepting? */

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When do most people bother intercepting?

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	I just kinda wonder what we should say about this dilemma and where we should say it. [[User:Magic9mushroom\|Magic9mushroom]] ([[User talk:Magic9mushroom\|talk]]) 03:57, 7 April 2016 (UTC)		I just kinda wonder what we should say about this dilemma and where we should say it. [[User:Magic9mushroom\|Magic9mushroom]] ([[User talk:Magic9mushroom\|talk]]) 03:57, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

			: I think this is really best left up to the judgement of the player as the ability to get to a landed UFO can be quite situational. In the early game, unless you are plain lucky or have lots of bases, your Skyranger is most likely not going to be able get to every landed UFO in time. You need the ability to shoot down the UFOs in this instance if only to get some work at the lesser reward. Later in the game you have more options on how to approach the UFOs as you spread out and get better tech to find and deal with them. This is when you can start going for landed UFOs. Much later into the game you'll have enough resources that you end up shooting down the UFOs down simply for the sake of shooting them down and ignoring the crash sites. [[User:NKF\|NKF]] ([[User talk:NKF\|talk]]) 06:11, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

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Magic9mushroom: Bringing the Great Interception Debate out into the open. Also messed with some formatting.

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Bringing the Great Interception Debate out into the open. Also messed with some formatting.

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	= Pursuit =		==Pursuit==

	TBD: Discuss pursuit on the Geoscape, bad intercept vector algorithm, speed differences, etc.		TBD: Discuss pursuit on the Geoscape, bad intercept vector algorithm, speed differences, etc.
	Also re-engaging targets, targets that land, over land vs over water, multiple interceptors.		Also re-engaging targets, targets that land, over land vs over water, multiple interceptors.

	= Engagement =		==Engagement==


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	==Interception Attack Modes==		===Interception Attack Modes===

	[TBD Summarise. Actually the main article already summarises this well.]		[TBD Summarise. Actually the main article already summarises this well.]
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	I've changed the main page to show some scepticism as to whether UFO damage vs interceptors increases due to interceptor attack mode. I don't believe it does. [[User:spike\|Spike]] 08:40, 16 August 2014 (PST)		I've changed the main page to show some scepticism as to whether UFO damage vs interceptors increases due to interceptor attack mode. I don't believe it does. [[User:spike\|Spike]] 08:40, 16 August 2014 (PST)

	=== Engaging with multiple craft ===		====Engaging with multiple craft====

	If I understand the latest edit, UFOs will not "divide" their fire amongst multiple targets, but will fire at each of them as frequently as they would fire at a single ship. If that's the case, is there really any advantage to having all ships engage at the same time?--[[User:Ethereal Cereal\|Ethereal Cereal]] 15:29, 5 March 2007 (PST)		If I understand the latest edit, UFOs will not "divide" their fire amongst multiple targets, but will fire at each of them as frequently as they would fire at a single ship. If that's the case, is there really any advantage to having all ships engage at the same time?--[[User:Ethereal Cereal\|Ethereal Cereal]] 15:29, 5 March 2007 (PST)
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	:(Never tried interceptors vs battleship, it sounds suicidal.) --[[User:MB\|MB]] 11:56, 6 March 2007 (PST)		:(Never tried interceptors vs battleship, it sounds suicidal.) --[[User:MB\|MB]] 11:56, 6 March 2007 (PST)

	== Review of Air Combat Mechanics ==		===Review of Air Combat Mechanics===

	Moved to its own article [[Air Combat Mechanics]]		Moved to its own article [[Air Combat Mechanics]]

	= Operational and Logistic Aspects =		==Operational and Logistic Aspects==

	==[[Repairs]]==		===[[Repairs]]===
	==[[Refueling]]==		===[[Refueling]]===
	==[[Rearming]]==		===[[Rearming]]===

	*Seb76 Loader option to relaunch aircraft before they are fully ready.		*Seb76 Loader option to relaunch aircraft before they are fully ready.
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	==Patrolling fuel usage==		===Patrolling fuel usage===

	TBD: Summarise fuel consumption for patrol/not, hybrid/not.		TBD: Summarise fuel consumption for patrol/not, hybrid/not.
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	= Strategic Aspects =		==Strategic Aspects==


	== Scoring vs Location of Intercept ==		===Scoring vs Location of Intercept===

	I am currently on 23rd January, so should be able to check whether XCOM Activity relates more or less directly to your pay rise at the end of the month fairly soon, but if it does then clearly you will always want to shoot down UFOs over a sponsor country instead of neutral territory (especially the big scoring recovery missions).		I am currently on 23rd January, so should be able to check whether XCOM Activity relates more or less directly to your pay rise at the end of the month fairly soon, but if it does then clearly you will always want to shoot down UFOs over a sponsor country instead of neutral territory (especially the big scoring recovery missions).
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	:There isnt a whole lot of random numbers it rolls either, which you see with that nice round 10 mill, you get nice neat values spread out every 100k (rounding issues would make it look like there were more possibilities with a smaller existing fund). So its a random int between 5 and 20. Going down is probably a mirror image I would guess, but thats not got any real evidence behind it. --[[User:Sfnhltb\|Sfnhltb]] 18:16, 1 March 2007 (PST)		:There isnt a whole lot of random numbers it rolls either, which you see with that nice round 10 mill, you get nice neat values spread out every 100k (rounding issues would make it look like there were more possibilities with a smaller existing fund). So its a random int between 5 and 20. Going down is probably a mirror image I would guess, but thats not got any real evidence behind it. --[[User:Sfnhltb\|Sfnhltb]] 18:16, 1 March 2007 (PST)

			==When do most people bother intercepting?==
			I'll be frank, I usually don't bother. The Elerium and loot is worth more than the UFO Downed points (funding changes are typically on the order of half a million or less; one Medium Scout and one Large Scout saved from Power Source detonation give $660,000 just in extra Power Sources and Navigations), and I can handle a night mission or two. I only bother intercepting in a few cases:
			*'''Small Scouts''' - Downing them doesn't lose anything. Destroying them loses the alien's gun, but they don't generally land and downing them safely is nearly impossible before advanced craft. Pretty easy choice.
			*'''Alien Retaliation''' - Nothing on that mission ever lands recoverably, so this is another no-brainer.
			*'''Terror ships performing Alien Terror''' - They don't land recoverably. See above.
			*'''Alien Base flotillas''' - Unless you've got multiple squads, you can't Ground Assault all four ships in the flotilla. And shooting down some of them breaks up the flotilla (because any that haven't spawned yet will get delayed), so you can get in two Ground Assaults instead of potentially only one. I'll take two Ground Assaults and two Crash Recoveries over a single Ground Assault any day.
			*'''Alien Infiltration''' - Not only is there a five-ship flotilla at the end, but Alien Infiltrations have a large and direct impact on X-Com's financing in addition to the points issue. You can't stop them, of course, but you can delay them, and since the mission repeats until all countries in the region are infiltrated, the delays are cumulative (potentially keeping countries in for several months longer than they would otherwise have lasted). So I generally shoot down as many of these as possible.

	~~= Misc =~~		I just kinda wonder what we should say about this dilemma and where we should say it. [[User:Magic9mushroom\|Magic9mushroom]] ([[User talk:Magic9mushroom\|talk]]) 03:57, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

	= ~~Old Chat~~ =		=Misc=

			==Old Chat==


	== Ye Olde Bayse Maynetaynanse ==
			===Ye Olde Bayse Maynetaynanse===

	Of course the thing that has lead me onto, is trying to work out how it calculates base maintenance. A lift only new base costs 30k (4k for the lift, 26k extra somewhere), and a vanilla starter base costs 224k, but the parts only add up to 169k, so the extra unassigned part raises to 55k. Whats going on?		Of course the thing that has lead me onto, is trying to work out how it calculates base maintenance. A lift only new base costs 30k (4k for the lift, 26k extra somewhere), and a vanilla starter base costs 224k, but the parts only add up to 169k, so the extra unassigned part raises to 55k. Whats going on?

Spike: /* Interception Attack Modes */

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Interception Attack Modes

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	I don't get to see this much anymore because I usually use Aggressive Attack because a lone Avenger can go toe-to-toe with a Battleship and still make it back in fairly good shape(30% damage or so). A Firestorm can usually manage to limp back as well, but in considerably worse condition. [[User:Arrow Quivershaft\|Arrow Quivershaft]] 12:25, 29 February 2008 (PST)		I don't get to see this much anymore because I usually use Aggressive Attack because a lone Avenger can go toe-to-toe with a Battleship and still make it back in fairly good shape(30% damage or so). A Firestorm can usually manage to limp back as well, but in considerably worse condition. [[User:Arrow Quivershaft\|Arrow Quivershaft]] 12:25, 29 February 2008 (PST)

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			I've changed the main page to show some scepticism as to whether UFO damage vs interceptors increases due to interceptor attack mode. I don't believe it does. [[User:spike\|Spike]] 08:40, 16 August 2014 (PST)

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	:2 interceptors with avalanches can bring down a terror ship and make it back to base in one piece. I think 10 avalanches will kill it. You do need to do the agressive trick with at least one interceptor to make sure all 6 missiles actually hit.		:2 interceptors with avalanches can bring down a terror ship and make it back to base in one piece. I think 10 avalanches will kill it. You do need to do the agressive trick with at least one interceptor to make sure all 6 missiles actually hit.
	:(Never tried interceptors vs battleship, it sounds suicidal.) --[[User:MB\|MB]] 11:56, 6 March 2007 (PST)		:(Never tried interceptors vs battleship, it sounds suicidal.) --[[User:MB\|MB]] 11:56, 6 March 2007 (PST)



	== Review of Air Combat Mechanics ==		== Review of Air Combat Mechanics ==

Spike: /* Review of Air Combat Mechanics */ moved to new article

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