Strategies to take out Longtoms

[Gibbage]

I found a way. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aByA-BmVVus

Shier detumination.....

[Nitro_R]

I found a way. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aByA-BmVVus

Shier detumination.....

Wow, that was awesome.
I was on the other side of the map at the time with a Partisan Prime.
9 of my kills were on you and that other VTOL guy.

Seems like AC5s are waay too good at long range.  There should be a bigger damage or gravity dropoff past it's minimum range.

[Gibbage]

Ya.  The only reason I had FRAPS loaded was to try and catch JUST HOW FAST even a Shiva goes down to AA.  It takes less then 3 seconds of fire before I was dead.  I would be flying along at 100%, then dead, almost INSTANTLY.  So I loaded fraps to get a sample of the insta-death, and you moved away!!!  I saw a tank in the general area, hit record, and went after it.  Turned out to be a LT and not you.  Lol.  You can see at the end I had 29 deaths!  The life of an aero pilot in 0.2.0

[(TLL)KitLightning]

Load up on C8 Grenades and Fire Bombs, approach the unaware Partypooper and plant the C8/FB between the turret and hull. Poof goes the Tom

BTW Gibbage using your aero as a bomb is seriously a lack of honour.

[Gibbage]

Cant help it.  It was pissing me off.  It MUST die at ALL cost.   

[Eldragon]

BTW Gibbage using your aero as a bomb is seriously a lack of honour.

"Why Mr. Pot, I dare say you are a black. Black as the night is dark," says Monsieur Kettle.

[Haunted]

C3 is great for helping find the battle and spot movements, but it is most useful for long toms.

I am on the fence with regard to sharing with passive mechs - on the one hand, it makes for an increase in importance of the light scout mech roles, on the other it just encourages everyone to be passive all the time.

Agreed. Being torn here, too.

Of course, with no active radar, how does one receive complex radar info, even from a computer network?

I guess it would have to do with the fact that you don't need active radiation to receive signals (but reallism only goes so far in a game anways)

I see a nice change in battles through more people going passive. Hide and seek is now part of general gameplay.

[(TLL)Sky_walker]

I found a way. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aByA-BmVVus

Shier detumination.....

Rotfl! I felt as if you would fight some panzer-tank. Missiles, Mgun, Kamikaze Aero, Bomb, Laser, SRM2, more laser... should just take the Fbomb! hehe

BTW: Funny thing - 2 Long Toms standing one right next to another (like 5 meters), I go with Fbomb Shiva, dive-bomb -90 degree, aim right between them, drop the bombs, pull up and... guess what? Only one Long Tom got destroyed, another with medium damage. Had to kamikaze to take it down.

[No!Petru]

I've taken a liking to the insanely fun but difficult task of going AA with a Long Tom.  Admittedly since the patch I've only shot down 2 shivas and 1 hawkmoth, and at least one of those was so close that the blast blew me up as well, but it was still worth it...

Gotta love aero jocks that attack in a shallow dive.

[SquareSphere]

Seriously, Shiva B 80LRM almost always kills the toms plus you don't have to get as close like you do with an Fbomb

[Killer-Bee]

for non-air maps promote that every time you shoot a long tom god kills a kitty cat

[Nitro_R]

for non-air maps promote that every time you shoot a long tom god kills a kitty cat

Too bad right now, every time they shoot a long tom, the SHELL kills a Cat (Novacat, Shadowcat, Madcat).

[SquareSphere]

Here's a strat and counter.

If the Tom is exposing himself on a hill or open area, you can take it down with ELRMs, their range is 1500m. Raven, Owens, and Catapults have them.  Especially if you're in a Cata, definitely use the jjs to your advantage.  The Eoptics from the raven and owens is a really huge advantage here.

"But if i'm using an missile config with radar on, won't he just blow me to bits?"
Ah good question and thats the special strat, you need to be as close to the max range as possible.  At lot of times Tom users don't pay any attention to targets that are on the max range of their radar since much of the time it's just targets fed to them via c3 that are "beyond" their range.

Launch then run while under passive to dodge the return fire if they got a bead on you.

For Tom users, they can only do this if you leave yourself exposed.  Most of the time happens when Toms are used from the high ground.

[(TLL)martinroshak]

Especially if you're in a Cata, definitely use the jjs to your advantage. 

This brought a funny image to mind, of a Catapult jumping, only to find that it has no legs, because a long tom shell has impacted right under it and blown them off...

[narcolepticltd]

Get a BA to go harrass the LT... when they finally have had enough and get out to try and kill the offending BA... hop and turn the barrel towards it's former allies.... let them kill their own LT =)