6 destroyers in mission 5??

[Stoob]

There is no way in hell I can deal with that, anyone worked out how to turn off this auto balance bs yet?

[Lora Grim]

Hehe. I got 5. I wonder if i can steal any of them. If possible, i'll just kite them around and pick them off one by one with salvage corvettes.

[Stoob]

The beyond countable fighters and frigates everywhere made salvaging basicaly impossible for me. I lost 15 salvage corvettes trying to take 1.

[Lora Grim]

Ah. That is unfortunate news for me. I have plenty of ion frigates. As long as they don't zerg me, i should be fine in theory.

[Kass]

stop being so good? the destroyers are cake if you harass 2 of them and then salvage the other 3, then cap 2 more if they are still up and a carrier.

[Kinger]

It's not that bad so long as you've got ion frigates/bombers. Park your salvage corvettes above on the Z axis, then wait for the destroyers to come to you. Have your frigates and bombers focus fire a few of them down, then slip your salvage corvettes in during the chaos and steal 2 or 3 of them.

You need 4 salvage corvettes (not 3, like in HW classic) per destroyer but it's totally doable.

edit: if you've got a few assault frigates too, that's just gravy - they'll make mincemeat out of any defenders the Taiidan send along with their destroyers and leave your salvage corvettes free and clear.

[Czyrek-Marc]

I only had 3 in mine, captured them easily, though I did have 40 interceptors and 20 h. corvs to keep off the hoards of strike craft. Perhaps you had a few too many frigs and got "balanced"? i only had 11.

[MxS7HGS]

Wow, i must have been lucky then since I only faced one. I had 15 or so frigates and a bunch of corvettes.

[sauce]

This is a bit of an exploit, but if you don't send out your probe to find their carrier, you'll have plenty of time to amass resources and build a lot of ships. When you feel you are ready, send out your probe and begin destruction

[Zenoslaf]

It's not that hard but it's harder that todays kiddy games.

Mandatory is that you destroy their resource collector as soon as possible. I enjoyed that missions, stayed after I destroyed everything and collected all asteroids, rebuilt the fleet...

[WeylandYutani]

Thats why it is called a Strategy Game you know, i think People need to remember to what Strategy means. I really appreciate the dynamic AI and the dynamic difficulty, it tries to simulate the reactions of a real Player, react to what you are doing. If you cant loose a Game why someone should even think off playing something like that.