Does destroying a ship's engines have any effect?

I don't think the ships do anything different when you blow up their engines. What mission do you think something different happens? If they're falling out of the mission it's just their normal path. (I believe)

Would be cool if the fighters exploded in a different way other than spinning out of control for a second then exploding. No matter how many times you hit them they always have to spin out first.

I'd have liked it to been more. Wanted to play Star Wars. Ended up playing Voice Over Zone Fest Wars.

It was a huge part of the other SW game that shall not be named. Why a footnote here?

I'm curious about torpedoes as well, what exactly changes when you can use these. (lvl 50) Do all the missions have a hard mode at 50 and you can use the torpedoes to take out the hardened targets like the bridge of the destroyer and the antenna on the space station? Was kind of hoping torps would blow things up....

I wish they'd make these available sooner...

You go for the engines because without power the ship is neutralized as opposed to going for any other part of a ship. You can go after weapons but it can still fly away. You can destroy the bridge but it can still fire back. You can go for communications array but it can still fire back and move.

So you see engines is the single best target if what you are looking to do is pacify which is the usual intent.

What do you think the rebels were targeting when they were hitting the Death Star?

It's especially noticable on the one where you need to blow up 4 Shield Generators and 14 Missible Turrets on the big ship. It's a capital ship intensive fight, and I come up behind one, take out its engines, and it starts falling away to the left. All others just continue in their normal paths.

Cheers.

The main reactor. It would make sense if the reactor was something you could hit after taking out those shield generators on the destroyer and the corvette's. It would be cool if the ships would stop after you hit the engines though. Many times after you've taken out everything on a target it will miraculously show up later in the mission still driving around like nothing happened. It's go no weapons and is smoking from every side but it's still flying around like nothing happened. This is most common in that taspan amush mission. Several of the early corvette's get pummeled early then show up on the far side of the asteroid. Would be great if blowing the engines stopped those ships.

I have some hate too. I adore the idea, but hate the implementation. The fact that you can memorize every ships attack pattern, and it never varies, makes me fume.

Anyway, I really, really hope they expand this mini-game, as the potential is awesome. But yeah, it needs work.

Speaking of mini-games, where is my Pazzak!

Next time, leave that ships engines intact and blow up another ships engines. The same one will veer off to the left in the same way. It isnt the engines being blown, it is just their predetermined path.

A lot of missions have hard targets like that, though not all. They can be taken out with lots of regular missiles however, the proton torpedoes just make it easier.

There are a few instances of hard targets that arent on the screen long enough to kill normally, i suppose the protons are the only way to take out those. It isnt a huge bonus, it can only be done daily, it is just a little extra for doing extra on the mission.