Help with mission 9?

[Axelay]

I'm apparently too stupid to play this game.

Any tips would be appreciated. I'm zoning in with 3 carriers, 25k RSU and ship caps on railgun/ions/assault/
I can nuke all the target sites, but I've never been able to nuke all the target sites & take out the control nodes & target all the capture ships & take out the transports & destroy all the carries & defend against all the destroyers that are coming because I didn't take out the control nodes.

On the plus side, I do run out of money almost instantly.

I've tried rushing 7 destroy targets
I've tried splitting up and destroying the 7 targets rapidly
I've tried destroying half the targets and then trying to focus on the control nodes
I've tried focusing on their capital/transport/carrier ships
I've tried ignoring them

And the 375,000 times I hear "A ship has been captured -- go save it" I must say, most of the time I cant figure out where/what/who they are talking about.

Any tips? What am I doing wrong?

[AGENTMOO]

I struggled with this one as well.

I've tried a few things too. I even turtled with a bunch of turrets which kept me alive for a little while until I was overwhelmed.

I only tried a few times but I put the game down yesterday because of this mission .

I was going to look online for some videos to see how others have tackled this one. I'm sure lots of people fluked out on the best method.

[Unsociable]

Start by resourcing the node on the left then go to the one to the right and take the carrier out and slowly one by one go up the wall taking the docks out only kill 2 docks though

then go around the map killing the turrets/ carriers 1 at a time

believe after taking out 3 or 4 docks they start spawning destroyers
gotta take this mission slow

i failed it like 4 times and rage quit as well >.>

[Axelay]

Hahaha, I'm TOO effective?

I'll give that a try, going slower, thank you.

[Unsociable]

Originally posted by Axelay:

Hahaha, I'm TOO effective?

I'll give that a try, going slower, thank you.

I thought it was a timed mission so i was rushing it as well but they just swarm

I tried lol same stuff rushing the carriers rushing the docks

[Axelay]

Originally posted by Unsociable:

Start by resourcing the node on the left then go to the one to the right and take the carrier out and slowly one by one go up the wall taking the docks out only kill 2 docks though

then go around the map killing the turrets/ carriers 1 at a time

believe after taking out 3 or 4 docks they start spawning destroyers
gotta take this mission slow

i failed it like 4 times and rage quit as well >.>

Thanks, Unsociable, this was exactly the tip I needed.

I took out the bottom left, and bottom right targets, then the resource collectors were mostly unbothered.
I cleared out the carriers and transports after that, and sent torpedo turrets to the control points (even though they weren't active yet) (2 each)
At some random point, my fleet took out another target bay while killing carriers, this triggered the control points, but my turrets were already there, so they just captured before any destroyers spawned.
Then I just slowly cleaned up the area and waited for my destroyers to build after researched.

[Darth Glorious]

The mission is a bit overwhelming at first but is is not hard. Just turtle at left side while your torpedo frigates and stealth bombers snipe the explosive near those production plants. This mission is also a good occasion to farm capture enemy destroyers. i manage to capture 12 of them, enough for me for the rest of the game, lol.

[[ZeroG]SheppardSG1]

im broke on that mission + AI is cheating there my ships are getting destroyed so easy compare to them then i left with only one destroyed minelayer mother ship ai got battlecrusier left and destroyer and couple of support craft above map location any clue how to beat that one and im on easy i killed the all docking thing with no issue but i went broke xd

[BicentricStone6]

Originally posted by ZeroGSheppardSG1:

im broke on that mission + AI is cheating there my ships are getting destroyed so easy compare to them then i left with only one destroyed minelayer mother ship ai got battlecrusier left and destroyer and couple of support craft above map location any clue how to beat that one and im on easy i killed the all docking thing with no issue but i went broke xd

I was also broke and just restarted the mission. Remember there are resources at the bottom left wall, bottom right wall and behind you at the start. At the beginning gather the one on the left and behind you as you will not get bothered.

[Ovid]

...Really? when I was playing on medium, I ignored the actual objective first. I mostly just used stealth bombers as scouts, then used torpedo frigates to bomb enemy capitals. Even when their escorts would rush at the torp frigates, the torp frigs would have enough time to fire at the escorts and weaken them. Then used a 15 assault/15 ion to be on torp frig escort duty.

The most important bit for this mission is, ignore the actual destruction targets, take it slow, clear the map first. Keep in mind, every time you kill an objective, a new wave will spawn, so again, only kill one at a time. And then when the destroyers start spawning, send a single resource controller to capture them. Without any escorts, the destroyers can't do enough damage to the RC to actually stop the capture. Then repeat until they stop spawning, or you get bored.
In my game, at the end of this mission, I had 1 Hiigaran destroyer (for variety) and 20 Incarnate destroyers. I think at that point they stopped spawning for me, or I accidentally captured one of the production bay points.
Oh, and make sure you have 3 carriers built before you start farming Incarnate Destroyers, as capital ship cap also counts carriers.

having double digits destroyers makes the rest of the game far easier, and you won't even care much about not being able to build battlecruisers, since your destroyer hordes are far more effective.