Part 17

When enemy ships approach your Mothership (MS), you can kill or capture them. Heal your fleet if you plan to fight afterwards. Keep ion array frigates and your research ship to the back of the map.

Investigate the dot below the MS at the front with your heavy corvettes. This is a combat fleet of ion cannons and assault frigates surrounded by defenders.

Send in your heavy corvettes supported by as many support frigates as possible to wipe out the fighter cover (defenders, scouts, interceptors). Prioritize interceptors; heavy corvettes can clear fighters in under 20 seconds.

Send the heavy corvettes home; support frigates will follow. Launch a scout wing on evasive in a claw formation to attack the frigates.

Follow up the scout wing with 9 salvage corvettes (plus one spare) to capture the occupied frigates.

The enemy will continuously produce fighters until their resources are depleted. Lure them with scouts back to your corvette wall or maintain a solid corvette wall in front of your MS to engage them.

Once fighters are gone, two destroyers and a carrier will engage. Send scouts to distract them, or support salvage corvettes with support frigates to capture them without distraction.

Capture the support frigate last, as it poses minimal threat.

After capturing ships, harvest all resources and any stragglers. You should have 2 destroyers, a carrier, and other ships.

On the launch screen, select 'keep docked' for both the carrier and the MS. Build 20-40 attack bombers, split into two groups (one in the carrier, one in the MS).

Allocate everything to military parade and ensure you can quickly select and order them. Split your 4 resourcers, two to the carrier and two to the MS.

Mission Objectives: Protect the Mothership.

Fleet Intel: "We have mis jumped protect the mothership."

You are in an asteroid belt. Launch both wings of attack bombers to attack asteroids directly in front of the MS. Monitor the MS health.

Select support craft to guard the MS, except for one support frigate placed near the front for bombers to dock with instead of the MS or carrier.

Move excess capital ships to the extreme right or left of the MS. Set destroyers to move ahead of the MS to pick off asteroids while bombers go for fuel. Move them to avoid damage.

Have resourcers collect debris from destroyed large asteroids (up to 10 loads).

At the end, meet the Bentusi. Buy their goods if you wish, ensuring you have 25 heavy corvettes. Keep everything docked before jumping. Note: The Bentusi's field frigate or drone frigate is not essential if you capture ships.

Mission Objectives: Harvest Natural Resources, Defend Fleet.

Secondary Objectives: Protect Resource Collectors.

Instantly launch corvettes in an aggressive wall formation. Position 3 of your 4 resourcers below the MS and near the corvette wall. Arrange other capital ships below the MS as well.

Research everything and max out your destroyers if possible.

Send out a lone resourcer; be prepared to lose it. A large sensor reading will appear on the (minimap (the small circular map in the bottom-left corner of your screen)) (radar (your minimap with nearby blips and threats marked)) after a load or two.

Waves of fighters will attack. Your corvette walls should quickly eliminate them. Place a support frigate at the rear of your corvette wall. Fighters are baited by resourcers behind the wall; any that get through can be picked off by corvettes. Use burst targeting from above and below simultaneously.

Spare fuel pods can be stolen for significant (RU) (Resource Units). To capture Kadeshi swarmers, kill their fuel pod, and they will become inert.

The world ship circles your MS.

Optional: Launch bombers with capital ships to attack the world ship. It can be killed but will jump away and reappear later. Use quick docking to save fleet damage. The world ship has a hyperspace inhibitor, forcing you to kill it. Keep bombers docked during fighter matches.

Maintain the corvette wall and engage fighters as the world ship approaches from behind. Move capital ships to engage the world ship, ensuring good separation to avoid its ramming attack. Kill it quickly with capital ship firepower before it rams your MS. Its main threat is ramming, though it has a single super ion cannon.

Clean up, capture rogue Kadeshi ships for trophies, and retire remaining fuel pods for extra (RU).

Multigun corvettes are recommended for the long run.