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Mission 3 - Return to the Kharak System
Story: After a successful hyperjump test, the mothership returns to Kharak to find everything but the cryo trays destroyed - and the remnants of whatever fleet destroyed Kharak are working on that task.
Difficulty: Moderate
Overview: You face only four enemy ships, but they are tough customers. At least one of them must be captured.
Fleet: For a smooth victory, arrive at this mission with six or more fighters, four or more corvettes, a pair of repair corvettes, and a pair of salvage corvettes.
Objectives
The sooner you get your fleet moving toward the cryo trays, the better. While fleet command and fleet intelligence describe the situation, do what you can to move your fleet via the long-range sensors map.
Defend Cryo Trays
Send in your fighters first. One of the enemy ships will likely break formation to defend the others or at least to respond to your attack. Hit this one with your fighters. Do not assign them a formation, but let them scatter and hit the enemy from all sides.
Divert attention away from your salvage corvettes with interceptors and scouts when you attempt to capture the enemy assault frigate. |
Assign your repair corvettes to repair the cryo tray that is being attacked. Follow with your salvage corvettes, which should capture the enemy ship that your fighters are attacking. Use caution when sending in your salvage team. The enemy ships target the salvage corvettes and will annihilate them in quick fashion. Having to construct two more and maneuver them over to the cryo trays takes too much time. It's best to successfully capture one of the enemy ships the first time.
Hit the other enemy ships with your corvette group. Again, do not assign a formation, but let your corvettes encircle the enemy.
Capture Enemy Ship Using Two Salvage Corvettes
Once your salvage corvettes have trapped the enemy ship, assign your fighters to the enemy your corvettes are attacking. Return the salvage corvettes to the scene as soon as possible, and capture any of the remaining enemies.
Two notes: Call off all attacks upon ships your salvage corvettes have under control. If a cryo tray explodes, reassign your repair corvettes to repair the next cryo tray that is attacked.
Salvage Cryo Trays
Once you've fended off the attack from the enemy vessels, use the two salvage corvettes to collect whatever cryo trays remain. Protecting five or six of the trays is challenging but possible, but only one must live through this mission for you to be the victor. Make a goal to save at least four of the trays.
It only takes one salvage corvette to secure a cryo tray. |
While you salvage the trays, research capital ship chassis. Also, take this calm moment to organize your force, separating each ship type into its respective Ctrl grouping. Build your fleet up to at least ten fighters, eight corvettes, and four salvage corvettes. The attack on the four enemy vessels during this mission shouldn't take much of a toll on your own fleet; the enemy ships primarily target the cryo trays and salvage corvettes.
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