Can someone help me with mission 10

[Unseen]

Ok so game isn't my fav rts ever really liked warcraft, age, starcraft, and red alert more (even though all I played was a red alert demo way back on pc, but it was fun) hell I even liked total annihilation more. But its ok, its kind of fun to build up a big fleet and get those power ships then when the battle starts zoom in and watch lasers and stuff. I don't exactly get all the fans saying its the greatest rts ever made but whatever I least wanna beat it so I can start 2. Especially since I didn't even pay for this and a friend sent it to me about a year ago. But now I'm on mission 10, and what the hell do I do? Anywhere I send my units they disintegrate and all the guides I looked up were more confusing than helpful. The youtube videos were just a guy clicking and talking in a really thick scotish/british accent I couldn't make out at all. One guy on the comments said it took him a year of playing to even come close to beating this mission. What in the hell am I looking at here?

And this is close to 30$? I don't get it how is this fun moving anywhere and all your ships are gone then restart? And not having any resources cause the only spots open you gotta trace a cloud of space dust? Is there some kind of simple strategy with mission 10 or is this just where everyone quits, moves onto 2, or just plays skirmish/online?

[Teratus]

Did you start the mission with a massive fleet of ships?

If I remember right the game tends to scale up missions depending on the amount of ships you start a mission with.
In the later levels this scaling can be ridiculously broken at times which can make the game feel very unfair.

If you get to a mission you have a really difficult time with you can always reload a save in the previous mission and scrap most of your fleet before progressing to the next mission.
This should scale down the amount of enemies you encounter.

[Unseen]

So this is basically a game you either live in or don't? This isn't a fun and casual rts.
I decided to start 2 got sick of 1. Got through the first mission in 2 and some enemy starts boarding my allies ship. Tells me I need to invest in marines which I was not told once before this sudden ordeal. They did not think this game through and dunno about classic those crash on startup for me. I wanna be open minded and least finish it since it was a gift... Its a lot like civilization people praise the hell out of that game as well. But all I noticed was it being an extremely confusing setback that constantly made you restart even on easy settings.

And in mission 10 I'm trying to stay in the space dust, it looks like there's space dust there anyway. And they still keep melting thanks to radiation. How is this a fantastic rts and the best strategy game ever? I mean the graphics are good for its time, they could of just stuck with battles and unit building but no radiation dodging all of a sudden just to pad frustrating game length.

[Rastrelly]

If they're melting, they're not in the dust. Dust fields are clearly marked on the radar. Just move through them to the target station. You need a nice tough fleet with carriers to heal your fighters, and you'll probbaly have to run into enemy a couple of times due to heavy defences and mines. By this point you should have destroyers, so make those core of your fleet. A good bunch of ion frigates is also a good pick, as they'll melt enemy destroyers fast enough. Alas, this mission is poor on salvage due to radiation, and of course you need a harvesting setup with resource controller to mine properly, cause the main resourse field is in another branch of dust clouds.

[Unseen]

No thanks to all that frickin ridiculous what the hell? I beat StarCraft and age of empires 1/2s campaigns and all of warcraft3. I wanted to like this game but that’s asking to much and what radar? I was following the dust cloud.

Ya know what forget it idc this isn’t my kinda strategy game I give up maybe there’s some fun skirmish modes or something campaign is terrible.

Thanks for the help anyway not trying to be negative I wanted to like this game. I just can’t get into it and I’ve tried 15 hours of it and I just can’t stand this mission at all.

[Rastrelly]

Dunno, one of the easiest missions. You just take ships and move them through cloud.

[oliwier.guliwer PL]

Originally posted by Unseen:

No thanks to all that frickin ridiculous what the hell? I beat StarCraft and age of empires 1/2s campaigns and all of warcraft3. I wanted to like this game but that’s asking to much and what radar? I was following the dust cloud.

Ya know what forget it idc this isn’t my kinda strategy game I give up maybe there’s some fun skirmish modes or something campaign is terrible.

Thanks for the help anyway not trying to be negative I wanted to like this game. I just can’t get into it and I’ve tried 15 hours of it and I just can’t stand this mission at all.

it's easier to start the series with deserts of kharak then the original's, it teaches you better how to use the sensors manager and all the mechanics then the originals/remasters and cataclism + it's on the ground unlike any other homeworld so you don't need to worry about verticality

that's how i started my adventure with homeworld, and i've never played a space RTS in my life, i only play Men of war , company of heroes , dawn of war and a bit of command and conquer/age of empires. and i like homeworld personaly even if it's not exactly a game that fits my description of an RTS i would like, but i enjoyed playing throght all the games (including cataclism/emergance)

kiith somtaaw enjoyers rise up

[Chaotic Entropy]

Yeah... I'll be the voice of reason here and say that yes, this a fussy and awkward mission... ultimately not "hard" so much as just labour intensive. It is probably my least favourite mission in terms of time spent vs entertainment had.

You're best off using the tactical map, waypoints and probes to use as navigation points. As well as storing your fighters/corvettes in carriers to avoid them going out of bounds when they aren't in combat. The dust clouds are vaguely marked in terms of width and you have to extrapolate out the depth, using specific points of reference that angle up and down appropriately is probably the easiest way to keen your ships on the right track so you don't have to adjustment movement height every time.

Generally you can get the enemy groups to just charge you individually and deal with them one by one until the probes arrive and then you need to just pull back a little before pressing on through the middle top dust cloud and descending on the objective.

[bongerman85]

OP is a real RTS gamer here. Very few people that I know, know what total annihilation is.

[bongerman85]

what is the name of the mission

[Terradyn]

I had that problem 23 years ago. It took my 8 or 9 months to go thru this mission. You have to keep your ships in the dust veins. Dust veins reflect radiation from the supernova. Only there are ships safe. Find on YT user Terradyns. I finished all the missions. Btw you should use mod that can block auto scaling enemy fleet.

[Teratus]

Originally posted by bongerman85:

OP is a real RTS gamer here. Very few people that I know, know what total annihilation is.

Really? most of my buddies back in the day were really into TA ^^
I have a few of them on steam but I don't play em much atm.

Always used to laugh at how broken it was picking up the enemy commander and waiting for his own guys to shoot him down and nuke his own base hahahaha good times.

[Sleepy]

The desire to tell this rude person "skill issue" is really high. Doesn't feel like they want help at all but rather to ♥♥♥♥♥ and moan about it. Drops other games names as if to try and reassure himself while he's getting his ass beat. This is mission 10, resources shouldn't even be a concern at this point. You should have more cash than you could possible spend on if you were only a little bit smart about how to manage your fleet through missions. If you find my message rude, good. I'm just matching the energy of your initial post and subsequent replies.