Freelancer Discovery Mod - help

[oxygene]

Ok so me and a mate have played this mod a lot lately for something to do. We got excited about gunship and battleship missions in the endgame and so powered through in about 8h. Problem is now we're at mk10 gear even fully maxed out with the best stuff we can find we cant discover how to take on gunships. Half the missions we take vs fighters / assassinations etc are all against these gunships and they can obliterate our lvl10 shields in seconds and we cant seam to scratch them. We've launched dozens of sunslayers, pounded on them with named special weapons, launched missile after missile. Even tried getting behind them to avoid gunfire but if theres more then 1 the advantage is only in seconds.

Please someone explain how to kill these things lol.

 

[greywolf]

Havent played the game for a while now so trying to remember. But can you not use a weapon which has longer range than the gunships weapons? I may be thinking of SWG space here tho.

 

[oxygene]

Well the best range we have is 1.5k torpedoes, and the gunships themselves have 1k missiles. We tried staying within that range but half the time we're still finishing off other fighters when these gunships arrive, so we're moving about a lot. Other times when its just us and them, we spam several and back off as fast as we can but they catch up fast and then going from reverse to full forwards speed takes time and they splatter us before we can move