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	Introduction Ship Management Resource Collection Movement & Combat Unit Strategies Walk-through 1-5 6-10 11-16 Multiplayer

Mission 16 - Hiigara

Story: With fleet command damaged from the ambush attack, you must face the final Taiidan defense force alone. Guarding the Homeworld is a massive Taiidan fleet, including its mothership.
Difficulty: Very hard
Overview: This is the toughest challenge you'll face. You must repel three overwhelming attacks from Taiidan ion cannon frigates, missile destroyers, destroyers, heavy cruisers, corvettes, and strike craft. Fortunately the rebel fleet hyperspaces in to assist with the third assault and finally with the Taiidan mothership.
Fleet: Don't worry about spending money - this is the final mission! Spend your entire bankroll, if you have any resource units left, and build up your fleet, including plenty of strike craft and corvettes. Also, construct at least 15 repair corvettes, if you didn't already in mission 14, and put them on mothership guard.

Objectives
This is your final battle - and it's a tough one! You won't have any time to build new capital ships, so you need to accomplish that task at the end of mission 14. Instead, switch to the long-range sensor map to locate incoming red enemy blips and prepare to move your fleet in two large groups. The sub-missions include:

Eradicate Enemy Forces
Remove everything from your mothership and immediately select your repair-corvette group (as indicated in mission 14, you should build 15 repair corvettes before leaving) and assign them to repair the mothership. If you failed to build the repair corvettes, do so now. Fleet intelligence informs you that many Taiidan forces patrol the area, including a mothership group a great distance away. Don't bother heading there; plenty of attackers are already on their way.

Pause the game and bring up the long-range sensor map. Locate the group coming from below you. This is a group of ion cannon frigates that must be intercepted - it's targeting your mothership. There's also a carrier group above you that launches some strike craft and corvettes. Don't bother with them. Deploy your gravity well generator (which you should have built at the end of mission 14) above your mothership. Assign it to its own Ctrl group so you can select and activate it quickly once Taiidan fighters emerge near your mothership.

Send your ion cannon frigates forward as soon as the mission begins.

Turn your attention to the group coming from below. Assign all your capital ships (excluding your stolen ion cannon frigates) to the same group, and move them down to intercept the red blip. Assign all your stolen ion cannon frigates, and move them toward the enemy mothership, but you'll in fact be intercepting a huge Taiidan attack force.

Next: Mission 16 (cont.)

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