Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26397860-20150514031201

There's a trick to defeating pirates at Kaamo very early in the game by exploting GOF2 AI glitch.

All you need is two mid-tier beam laser (M6 A2 Cougar) with at least 3.6km range, a booster and a mid-tier shield generator. No nukes, wingman, or fancy ship needed. Infact, you don't even need to carry missiles!

Here are the steps:

1) Once you jumped into the Shima system, immediately turn tail and fly in the opposite direction of the pirate base. Use your booster to put as much distance as you can between you and the pirates. You will need about 3 boosts to get clear from them (and some evasive manouvering). The pirate fighters should stop following you. If any of them are still on your tail by then - you should be able to turnaround and take care of them easily as you're no longer (heavily) outnumbered.

2) Once your shield has recovered from the initial fire fight, start flying to the periphery of the furthest pirate base from the Kaamo station. Note that there should be four of them surrounding the station. When you fly there, make sure you keep as much distance as possible from the pirate fighters (shouldn't be hard as these fighters seems to fly around in circles near the Kaamo station itself).

3) Once you reached the first pirate base, line youself up so that the base is between you and the pirate fighters (ie, the base is blocking your direct line of sight to the fighters). Start flying towards this base and stop when you reach 3.6km. Open fire with your beam lasers. At that distance, most of the pirate fighters will not notice what's happening and should not interdict your activity. If one of them do take notice and start attacking you, don't panic - focus on destroying that lone fighter and the rest will not bother you.

4) When the first pirate base is destroyed, repeat the same process for the other three bases. The pirate fighters will no longer spawn.

5) Now move in towards the nearest pirate fighters  remaining near Kaamo station. Once you get to about 4km cut your engine. One (or two of them) should start to attack you and you can dispatch them one at a time from long range. Remember that you should be able to get at least two salvos at them before they start firing at you (and you take damage) - thus ensuring that you will always win every fire fight as long as only one of them come to you at a time. Be sure to wait for your shield to regenerate before moving to the next one.

And that's it! You now have access to the station. Unfortunately, since it's so early on in the game you won't be able to afford to buy the station.... You probably won't be able to collect all the loot floating around after the battle as you won't have a tractor beam either! However, you can buy customized armor,  cargo and handling upgrades in Kaamo space lounge which will come in handy later on. You'll also feel pretty good about yourself for exploting the game's AI!

If all this sounds too easy, see if you can pull this off with the Betty, no shield and one cougar laser!  