Asteroid mission in HW1

[Zig]

Having some problems in this mission, the asteroids are just 1 shotting all of my units and I can't seem to kill them fast enough, any advice?

[DarSin]

Use a bigger gun. Maybe use a few of them.

[Kinger]

Use your frigates. Strike craft AI is terribad in the remaster and they'll crash into the asteroids with no hesitation.

[Peter Griffin]

Destroyers are good too, and heavy corvettes seem far better at not dying comapred to other strike craft.

[=[ JDSU ]= Sir Humphrey]

This is one of the worst-desgined missions in any game I've ever played. Ever ever.

It's not just fighters that are too stupid to stay out of the way, your frigates and corvettes are too. And it's often impossible to tell which asteroids will hit the mothership and which won't unless you pause and look around every 10 seconds. I hate this one so much.

[sierra_one_]

Capturing the ion array frigates from the Turanic Raider mission is really useful, ion beams seem to have a 'pulling' effect that'll allow you to drag the asteroids away from the mothership without needing to destroy them completely!

The mothership-killing asteroids also seem to come in pairs or trios, giving you enough time to move the major ones while support frigates can heal the damage caused by asteroids not worth moving.

[murakume]

Make sure to dock any and all fighters, bombers, or resource collectors. Stick ion frigates, heavy corvettes, and destroyers (if you have any) in front and like 3-5 support frigates out behind your mothership. I ended up taking a zoomed out top-down view point and took out only ones that were definitely going to hit. Getting hit a few times is probably going to happen no matter what.

[Kothra]

use ctl+dragLMB to select multiple targets, and also make sure to retarget the debris once the asteroid breaks up into smaller parts

[Dandy]

I had trouble too but it is easy enough, keep your fighters/bombers docked and try to move everything else like collectors behind the mothership since they get hit too.
In the last missions you had the option to capture 2 destroyers (try and capture both), they destroyers are great here with the high firepower but they are slow too. Use assault and ion frigates to clear the way mostly (about 6 each would be good atleast). Don't forget to repair using the support frigates and repair corvetts.
The main problem is when you shoot an asteroid it will break apart into 3 pieces that need to be shot too, the hit box for 1 will cover the other 2 so the ships will not shoot if you dont choose the 1 they can see, pause often and choose the targets :P

[HidesHisFace]

First - have a bunch of repair corvettes constantly repairing your mothership.
Second - send your remaining units somewhere safe - to the right or to the left of the asteroid belt.
Third - prepare a group of frigates and preferably a destroyer (you should capture one in previous mission) and order said group to attack bigger asteroids from the SIDE. This way they won't be threatened that much by rocks and will have good field of fire. Simple as that.
Another word of advice - don't discard assault frigates as obsolete after you got ions. They will come in handy in next missions - let's just say they are much more effective against strikecraft in Remastered edition than they were in the original.

[VonFIDDE]

Ya repair corvetts and some nice ships and it's a walk in tha park.

[Novatech]

I did it with a lot of frigates and some micro.

[sleepy]

Yeah, i am having trouble with this mission as well. Kind of killing it for me lol. I don't wanna shoot asteroids .. i wanna shoot ships

[FlashBurn]

I had to reload mission 5 and get a more focused on big toys fleet. Lots of ION frigates and captured a destroyer. First go I mainly had fighters and coverettes, LOTS of them. That did not remotely work out. After the redo, was easy. Just a bunch of frigates hot keyed to two groups. Dock everything else in the mothership. Give defensive order to everything else. Seem to get out of the way more. Support vessals healing the mother ship with a group of support corvetes healing the frigates and destroyer.

If its stupid hard, reload 5 and get what you need. There simply is NO time to recycle units and make ion frigates with the whopping 10 seconds before crap start flying into you.



wooooooooo bad spelling... need to go get some coffee.. =)

[Sphincter]

Use support frigates to heal the mothership. Astroids go down fast with destoyers and frigates.