[Petrarch of the VBB]

Can someone tell me why this is?

Every time I try and play Homeworld these days, I can't get past the 2nd mission, as I can't kill the Turanic carrier that destroyed the Khar-Selim.
What am I doing wrong?

The first time I played the game, it was a breeze...

[DragonClaw]

You don't kill the carrier, it escapes.

[Flipside]

Oh yes, and one other hint, don't build too many ships, the less ships you have, the less enemies appear on that and the next level

Flipside

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Originally posted by DragonClaw
You don't kill the carrier, it escapes.

I thought if it escaped the mission was failed?

Odd.

[Flipside]

That's a couple of missions later, you are attacked by the carrier, return, capture the Frigate, head out again, Meet the Bentusi, get the Ion Frigate and THEN you have to destroy the Carrier

Flipside

[Petrarch of the VBB]

It really has been a long time, then.

But still, I have to at least damage the bugger, for it to escape, yes?
my fighters and corvettes get 0wned by those quick-firing guns on it.

[Mr. Vega]

No need. Just kill what's attacking the mothership and it leaves eventually.

[Thor]

While we're on the topic, could someone point me at a good Homeworld walkthrough.

[Descenterace]

I've GOT a good walkthrough, but I can't remember what page I copied it from.

Try looking here: Homeworld Universe

[Nuclear1]

Petrarch you noob. Anyway, yeah, do what they say. Kill the fighters and vettes, but ignore the carrier. In Mission 4, build a lot of interceptors and heavy vettes, then rip that carrier apart.

[Fury]

As soon as I got frigates, I never built fighters or corvettes again. Unless a mission goal required so.

Really, you save a lot of resources if you concentrate on capital ships and keep those alive by using support frigate's repair capability.

Fighters and corvettes are a waste of resources IMO...

Some day I need to try how well an armada of ion cannon frigates does against fighters and corvettes alone. (In single player)

[Sandwich]

What's the best (only?) SW TC for HW?

[Petrarch of the VBB]

I used to know of a very good one, but they kept chaning everything, so I lost interest.

SWFA, I believe it was called.

And whatever happened to the Freespace TC? SVG, was it?

[TheCelestialOne]

Go here: http://jstonline.thegamingunion.com/ for mods!

[Nuclear1]

Originally posted by Mr. Fury
Some day I need to try how well an armada of ion cannon frigates does against fighters and corvettes alone. (In single player)

You arrive with 30-45 ICFs. I arrive with 80 interceptors in an aggressive wall, and 20-30 heavies in a wall. You won't have a single ICF after two minutes

[Fury]

Originally posted by nuclear1


You arrive with 30-45 ICFs. I arrive with 80 interceptors in an aggressive wall, and 20-30 heavies in a wall. You won't have a single ICF after two minutes

That is why there's 6 missile destroyers.
But in any case, multiplayer is different from single player. People can think and change their strategies accordingly, but in single player it is the same all time.

[Nuclear1]

Not at all. There are dozens of different ways to play, strike-craft-only, corvette-only, caps-only, salvage-all, kill-all (my fav )... the list goes on.

[Thorn]

I find the best strategy is to have a good mix of strike craft and capships...
A wing of attack bombers covered by a group of scouts on evaisive will make short work of a missile destroyer...
The scouts distract the destroyer...

[StratComm]

Original homeworld encouraged that, as unit capping allowed you to max out on one type of ship and still have plenty more ships that you could build.  The cataclysm "support" system (which I understand HW2 uses ) is the one that forces you to adopt an all-one-type strategy, as you could not get enough ships from several classes to be useful.

[Nuclear1]

Originally posted by Thorn
I find the best strategy is to have a good mix of strike craft and capships...
A wing of attack bombers covered by a group of scouts on evaisive will make short work of a missile destroyer...
The scouts distract the destroyer...

But then again, make one huge wall of 80 aggresy inties, there shouldn't be a missile destroyer after a second or two. Same goes for nearly everything larger than a corvette.