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This section features a complete walk-through for Homeworld: Cataclysm's single-player campaign game. Inside, you'll find strategies for completing each objective, how best to gather the mission's resources, and tactics for eliminating all enemy forces efficiently and effectively.
The Kiith Somtaaw mining vessel, the Kuun-Lan, responds to a distress call near the homeworld, Hiiagra. The carrier Veer-Rak reports that its strike fleet needs cover, and furthermore, that the firelance frigates are under attack from Taiidani bombers. Assisting the firelance frigates is your first priority.
The Taiidani attack bombers attacking your ion cannon frigates must be destroyed. Build some acolytes as soon as possible and send them over to help the frigates.
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Send your acolytes against the Taiidan bombers. |
As soon as you gain control of the Kiith Somtaaw command ship and fleet, select the two workers and press the H key to order them to begin harvesting the nearby asteroids. Alternatively, you can rubber band select the workers and use the right-click menu to order them to harvest or simply select the workers and right click on the asteroids to get them moving.
Open the command ship's build menu by pressing the B key. Seek out the acolytes on the left-hand menu and start construction. Though the Taiidan bombers can be eliminated with just a handful of acolytes (approximately five to six), you may as well produce a sizable fleet of acolytes for use across the entire mission. Queue about 15 acolytes and exit the build menu by using the close button on the lower right corner.
A cutscene interrupts acolyte production - a small force of Taiidan fighters are breaking off from the main battle to investigate your hyperspace signature. The fighters head for your harvesting workers. Select your acolytes and assign them to a group (for instance, press Alt-1 to assign them to group number 1). Monitor the Taiidan fighters on the sensor map (press the space bar to toggle between maps). Wait until they close on the workers to move your acolytes; that way, you'll have produced plenty of acolytes to send into battle.
Place the acolytes in the X or claw formation. As you near the fighters, use the Ctrl key and rubber band select all enemy fighters - that way, your acolyte group will attack several Taiidan fighters at once. Place the acolytes on aggressive tactics as you close in to fight. Once the Taiidan fighters are destroyed, regroup your acolyte force (and add any additional acolytes) and open the sensor map.
Use the sensor map to move your acolyte force to the indicator - the location where the Taiidan bombers are attacking the firelance frigates. The bombers attacking the frigates are quite spread out. Keep your acolytes in X or claw formation and aggressive tactics and concentrate your fire on a single Taiidan bomber as you enter the fray. Ctrl select the additional Taiidan bombers on the screen. Keep rotating your view until you select and destroy all remaining bombers.
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