Great Wastelands, Taiidani Fleet Pursuit

With the destruction of the Pirates that pursued us we can now turn to the task of tracking down and destroying the fleet that perpetrated the destruction of Kharak, let no one survive!

Mission Objectives

Primary

1. Investigate the asteroid field: You are to search the asteroid field for evidence of the Taiidani attack force that destroyed Kharak. Send a probe or a ship to point A to ascertain the location. Point A is 70-80 KM from the MS at the 300 degree point on the compass.
2. Eradicate all enemy ships: Destroy every last one of the murderers so that they may not bring word of our survival back to the Taiidan empire. We must bide our time until we can retake our true Homeworld and avenge the deaths of our people.

Secondary

1. Destroy enemy resource collectors: Destroy the enemy's resource collectors to remove their ability to build any more ships with which to attack us with.
2. Research defender sub-systems: Research defender sub-systems to add another weapon to our growing arsenal of ships, defenders are useful for destroying fast moving fighters.

New Research

Plasma Bomb Launcher
Defender Sub-Systems

New Ships

Attack Bomber (AB)
Defender (def)

What I do

This is the first of the tricky missions. The first thing to know is that in the 2 pictures below, the top view one has the trigger points circled and labeled as B. If your collectors go beyond the points marked B the enemy fleet will start to attack you. You really want to avoid this so it is best to harvest one arm up to point B then move to the other arm. Just in case you don't see it, there is a gap between the 2 arms that the circles at point B are around. You have to zoom in a little closer for them to be clear but they are there, use them as your guide.

The attacking fleet is tailored to the fleet of ships you have, if you have decided to purchase Ion cannon technology from the Bentusi then the attack force will have 2 groups of ICFs in the attack along with 2 AF groups, 2 destroyers, and a carrier, if like me, you choose to wait until the tech comes of it's own time, you will have one group of ICFs and 2 groups of AFs as well as the other ships listed above. The fleet will also have varying amounts of defenders and interceptors.

I will resource along the 2 veins until I have reached both of the points marked b. I then tell the collectors and controller to come back to the MS where they will be safe.

I build one probe for the 'scan' and make sure I have the following fleet: at least 20 attack bombers, 16 heavy corvettes, 6-8 support frigates, and no less than 10 salvettes. I leave all but 4 of the salvettes docked in the MS to protect them, I retire any repair corvettes I have for the RUs and then send the probe to the asteroid field.

When I trigger the attack I will get the secondary objective of destroying the enemy resource collectors. I send out the 4 salvettes to go collect these ships and make them my own, I make sure to send along 2-4 support frigates to keep the salvettes healthy. The enemy does not like me stealing their ships, hehehe. I also send the 16 heavies to accompany the salvettes so the defenders and inties die real good when trying to protect the collectors. Those heavies have the remainder of the support frigates set to repair them so they stay health.

Since I choose to not buy the Ion tech, I have one group of 4 ICFs bearing down on my MS along with 2 sets of 4 AFs. I wait until the collectors are safely mine then send ALL my salvage corvettes after those ships. Keeping in mind to support them as they do their job. I'll set the bombers and heavies to attacking all the enemy ships so they have a hard time singling out my salvettes.

By the time I have salvaged half the ships I will have 2 destroyers and a carrier heading to my MS. I will try my damnedest to make sure I get both destroyers and the carrier. I intend to retire the whole fleet for the resources, see I like the resources more than the extra ships, hehehe.

By the end of this mission I will have 16 heavies, 20 ABs, 4 collectors, 1 controller, and one research ship. All the ships I need for mission 6 success, believe it or not.