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Mission 4 - Great Wastelands
Story: The first jump away from what used to be your home brings you 2500 light years closer to the Homeworld, but that much closer to danger.
Difficulty: Moderate
Overview: While you collect resources to prepare for further hyperspace jumps, the mysterious enemy not only attacks your resource operations, but also threatens the life of your mothership itself.
Fleet: Enter this mission with at least ten fighters, eight corvettes, and four salvage corvettes.
Objectives
In some missions, such as this one, it's important not to immediately follow fleet intelligence's orders. Don't rush into the objectives, or you'll find yourself under enemy attack too quickly. The sub-missions are as follows:
Begin Collection of Resources
Before sending your resource collector to the asteroid field, accomplish the second objective: Build and deploy a resource controller. In addition, either dock your salvage corvettes inside your mothership, or fly them away from the area.
Capturing the ion cannon arrays in this mission is useful in building your fleet. |
Build and Deploy Resource Controller
Send your collector and controller to the asteroid field, and put all your corvettes and fighters near the controller, set to aggressive. Begin harvesting.
Your efforts will attract the attention of an enemy fleet, made up of fighters and missile ships. As long as your defenders are set to aggressive, they should do fine without your micromanagement. You may want to bring any repair corvettes you own up to repair your defensive force.
Protect the Mothership
During this battle, the enemy will surround your mothership with ion cannon arrays. Bring your repair corvettes home to repair her. Once the ion cannon arrays have begun firing on the mothership, fly behind them with your salvage corvettes and capture them one after another.
In the defense of your mothership, you have several options: repair your mothership with more repair corvettes; eliminate one or more ion cannon arrays by building your own assault frigates or ion cannon frigates; or build even more salvage corvettes, and try to capture all the enemies at once. In any event, capturing at least two of these ion cannon arrays is very helpful, and in most cases you should be able to get three of four.
Use strike craft and corvettes against the enemy fighter escort. |
The best way to nab these ion cannon arrays is to send assault frigates or corvettes to attack first, then follow with salvage corvettes. If you send in the salvage corvettes first, the ion cannon arrays will attack and destroy them, completely blowing your chances of swiping some of these useful ships.
Once you have defeated this ion-cannon-array wave, the enemy carrier (with two ion cannon arrays in support) will attempt to destroy your mothership. Harass the enemy arrays with fighters, and circle your salvage corvettes behind them to capture them both. Meanwhile, use the arrays you captured, along with anything else you have available, to drive away the carrier. Once it is sufficiently damaged, it will hyperspace-jump away.
Be sure to harvest all available resources, but don't worry about reorganizing your fleet before moving on to the next mission.
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