How should i deal with the dark fog base on my first planet?

[Bartowski]

I placed a sensor tower nearby with 6 rocket turrets firing. The base seemd to be chruning out units faster than the rockets could destroy them, and they never hit the structure as there were so many bots. How should i go about clearing this?

[nwg789]

you don't attack the dark fog first thing, you gotta work up to being powerful enough to take them on

[Diamond Sutra]

How do you get the rockets to fire at the Dark Fog Hive?

The rocket turrets have a measly space range of 4200 m, which is no where near close enough to attack the Dark Fog. The Dark Fog in my system is roughly 0.4-0.5 AU from my closest planet at the closest orbits to each other...

[Rai]

You can clear them as early as before they even launch a second attack (atleast in default). I used gauss turrets to clear the drones then missile turrets to clear the buildings.

[Smart_Boy]

I used signal towers to greatly increase missile turret range. Have one next to your turrets in base, then place however many you want around/near the base and as soon as dark fog enter the tower range your own missiles will shoot from across the planet. Mix that with some combat drones and you can then set up some signals that are in the base and the missiles do the rest

[Bartowski]

I think i just need more rockets set up. they just kept targeting the units that spawned as they headed to the signal tower i set up next to their base. will try again in a bit!

[MetalHev]

You don't. You just plop turrets around their base and keep mugging them for loot.

[Kazouie]

When you click on a turret it has different priority settings for what it targets, ground. low air, high air and space.
If you really want to be rid of that base you need to set High air as a higher priority than the others and they will targets the floating thing down, it's off by default.
Do mind that if you destroy the platform the hive will later try to redeploy it somewhere.

[D92C]

In my previous save, i used around 26 missile turrets, had a storagedepo that i just filled up with missile ammo and just put it on a belt under all the turrets, Then i just placed power poles up towards the bases and put down a drone tower (forgot the name of it) for repair and loot collection and some gauss turrets just to defend the area, then i just put down some signal towers, slowly just incing closer towards the base.

Just make sure that you tell your missile turrets not to shoot on the space target (you can can copy pase the settings), dunno if it was high air or just space, so you dont get annahilated by the space ships :P