... I do believe I've seldom seen Kara so excited.
Added to my gamespot watch list, any how. If it resembles Hostile Waters, I'll definitely love it.
I love the Antaeus. Too bad it had to self destruct. But its ending just screams sequel!
You don't like the rescue mission? That's one of my favourites. :D
Here's what I do.
Scout with the Puma. I tend to drive it myself rather than giving it to Kroker as that allows me to stick some armour in for emergencies. Arm with either scalpel or firestorm as you won't be doing much fighting obviously).
Once you've had a very good scouting session, deploy Patten in a shark with warhammer and give him two scalpel equipped sharks for protection. Have them follow Patten so they don't wander off too far from him.
Head north and take the route around the island to the west. You'll find a set of alien oil derricks to the north of their base. Take them out with bombardments from Patten. You should be able to stand off shore out of range of everything except the slugs to do this. Once production is down, stand off shore of the base itself and pummel it in the same way. Once it's dead. Scavenge. Y ou should have more than enough resources now to build a small fleet.
Head back to the carrier the way you came remembering to send a pegasus to pick up and recycle the scarab. Now from the carrier head south staying well away from the shore. Once you reach the bottom of the map head east. On the beach you'll see the main resource production for the alien base. Take it out. Once that's done you can either return to the carrier and get Patten in a tank or if you're feeling brave move back to the south eastern corner of the map and perform an amphibious assult on the enemy base.
Either way once you have destroyed the enemy base do not rescue the Behe until you have scavenged everything. You should now have all the resources you need to kick the crap out of anything the aliens can send at you.
Y ou don't actually need the carrier guns to win this one, So I tend to use them to take out the slug factories just before I begin an assault