[Luis Dias]

Holy ****, you guys who blew up Artemis are heroes. We should've given a special debrief for that.

"medal of the broken fourth wall: to be given to any pilot able to frak up the entire story we outlined for you without cheating"

[Gray113]

providence932,
I tried this against both the Artreus and the Artemis. Atreus had an invincible tag so the hull did not drop below 98% and when I tried it on Artemis the Beam missed. I guess you got luckier than me

Spoiler:

though I did try this after the elder was dead

[providence932]

In order to royally mess up the plot

Spoiler:

Target the (GTM) medical ship that's docked to the Artemis, it's got the same name as the one in Her Finest Hour and the beam will penetrate that and will start plinking the station. make sure you use the beam cannon that's sitting above the Atreus

I think it also had something to do with the fact that I placed my beacon (to call in the suicide ship) well and away BEHIND Artemis station and since I activated it and the Mjolnirs and roughly the same time, the fighters never had a chance to stop it from hammering into the station since I was already using the static discharge and eating away at the elder's transport.

[Gray113]

Nice

[An4ximandros]

For your outstanding record of game testing, you are hereby awarded the Blue Planet Sequence Breaking Star. This medal recognizes your contributions to our mission of exploration and containment of game breaking bugs, from the Jovian retreat in Sol to your victory at Artemis station. Most notably, we commend you for a successful sortie against the GTD Atreus and it's escorts. Congratulations, Pilot.

[Luis Dias]

That's a good one, An4. You gotta write something like this, Battuta!

[cio]

Spoiler:

I think I used Mjolnir 2 to blow up Artemis (or was it 7?). It might not work with the other cannons. On my first run I tried hitting the Artreus,
but the beam missed and so Artemis seemed the perfect target of opportunity for my second run right at the start of the mission.
I just forgot about the station and rushed to the transports, until .. BOOM...

Maybe you could "get hugged" for taking out Artemis just like in Act 2 when you cheat the Carthage into oblivion 

[Klaustrophobia]

i'm curious as to how it can miss stationary targets as large as a destroyer or installation from point blank range.

[QuakeIV]

Its really accurate if you give it orders over C-ships-blah.  Otherwise it just fires into space without bearing on the target.  Those are my findings anyhow.

[Veers]

I prefered to hit all the logistics rather than the warships after I had eliminated the transport..

[Klaustrophobia]

Its really accurate if you give it orders over C-ships-blah.  Otherwise it just fires into space without bearing on the target.  Those are my findings anyhow.

is there some other way to fire it? o.0

[Pred the Penguin]

Get out of your fighter and turn it manually?

[X3N0-Life-Form]

Get out of your fighter and turn it manually?

That would be badass. "Guys, there's someone trying to push one of the RBCs by hand."

[TheDemon]

So, uh

Spoiler:

I was replaying Her Finest Hour again, seeing how badly I could **** it up. I played just well enough to avoid Sekhr's attack, and I took down all the Mjols before calling the Toutatis. Sounds like a sound plan, right?

Toutatis jumps in, kills the Carthage while sustaining a fair bit of damage from her beams, something like 50%. I choose the Destroy option because... then after the Carthage dies, the disabled Iolanthe and Deianira and ****ing Radhanite takes down the Toutatis in the middle of the victory dialogue.

I guess the debriefing that I got was already built-in, because it's totally possible to kill the Carthage and then lose the Toutatis to Mjolnirs, but absent any Mjols on the battlefield my guess is Steele is giving those corvette crews a god damn medal.

Also what are MARDUK, NABOPOLOSSAR, and especially EDDA?

[An4ximandros]

Marduk

The Marduk Prophecy is a text describing the travels of the Marduk idol from Babylon, in which he pays a visit to the land of Ḫatti, corresponding to the statue’s seizure during the sack of the city by Mursilis I in 1531 BC, Assyria, when Tukulti-Ninurta I overthrew Kashtiliash IV in 1225 BC and took the idol to Assur, and Elam, when Kudur-nahhunte ransacked the city and pilfered the statue around 1160 BC. He addresses an assembly of the gods.
The first two sojourns are described in glowing terms as good for both Babylon and the other places Marduk has graciously agreed to visit. The episode in Elam however is a disaster, where the gods have followed Marduk and abandoned Babylon to famine and pestilence. Marduk prophecies that he will return once more to Babylon to a messianic new king, who will bring salvation to the city and who will wreak a terrible revenge on the Elamites.

Nabopolassar - A king of the Babylonia, played a role in the demise of the Assyrian Empire.

Edda - Possibly an indirect reference to Ragnarok.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Edda could also be the oil rig to the left of this image.

[-Norbert-]

How do you call the Toutatis?
All I ever get to call in are fighters, bombers and a squad of gunships.

[SpardaSon21]

You don't want to.  If you do Serkr shows up to gank it.

[General Battuta]

You don't want to.  If you do Serkr shows up to gank it.

Not true. Serkr will appear under specific circumstances.

[Gregster2k]

You guys are doing FANTASTIC work with this one.  Your storytelling is getting better (I hated AoA's plot, liked WiH, loved the gameplay of both), and you did a masterful job of helping me get totally immersed and suspend disbelief.

However, in the first mission briefing, you made blatant reference ("Nothing is true, everything is permitted") to another video game series. Please don't do that again.

I can tell that Assassin's Creed heavily influenced this latest chapter, but actually using THE Assassins' Creed as the creed of the Fedayeen was not a good move.  Come up with your own knockoff maxim for the Fedayeen, paraphrase it, alter it, or even remove it -- but your story is strong enough that it can and SHOULD stand on its own just fine without quoting other games verbatim.  If you do, the spell of immersion is broken -- I go from being IN the experience, to THINKING ABOUT the experience.  Which is a damn shame because you did so good to immerse me otherwise, making reading that all the more jarring.

[EDIT] I stand corrected (see the reply to this An4ximandros posted) re. the origin of this phrase.