Anyone able to kill Junk Dog on mission 13? HomeWorld

[DD The Pumpkin King]

Nothing fires. It just flies into the center of my fleet, snags a destroyer out of 12 and despite 50 fighters, 40 corvettes and 11 our capital ships being commanded to fire on it, only a select few do causing very minor damage.

[Ryooneko]

yes i did kill it after i think half an hour or so and then failed the mission >.<

[DD The Pumpkin King]

Originally posted by Ryooneko:

yes i did kill it after i think half an hour or so and then failed the mission >.<

what? you're not allowed to kill it? What sadistic bastard puts this ♥♥♥♥ in a game?!?!

[imrahil2]

use a couple grav generators on it, when one grav gen is exhausted then turn on the other one and so on

[Unit]

You do not fail the mission for destroying the Junkyard Dog. You possibly had a bug?

[RayJade1]

Keep all the capital ships well away. The Dawg (a corvette hence the grav gen's work) isn't interested in corvettes and fighters but has super tough armour and can't be salvaged.

I seem to recall working through killing the guns and capturing proxies (capital class!) and wiping out the Dawg with missile corvettes.

[mouth]

Originally posted by imrahil2:

use a couple grav generators on it, when one grav gen is exhausted then turn on the other one and so on

This. I killed him on my first encounter with him. Didn't touch me at all. Get 2 gravwell generators minimum, set them to follow your first wave (should be capital ships like destroyers and heavy cruisers), let your frigates and the rest follow. As soon as the Dog is coming, turn 1 gravwell on, boom - the dog is shut down, fire with all your fleet at him. Check out the gravwell until the generator is exhausted, turn the other gravwell on. Once the second one is depleted, your first one will be fully charged and you can do this as long as it takes for you to kill him. Boom. Done. Next.

[bliss]

Originally posted by imrahil2:

use a couple grav generators on it, when one grav gen is exhausted then turn on the other one and so on

This is the best suggestion. I was able to kill it in maybe 3 minutes with a group of heavy cruisers and destroyers.

[Gotcha!]

I think the biggest problem here is the fact that all inanimate objects in Karos are somehow enemy targets. I tried killing the junkyard dog too, but most of my ships decided to fire at the lifeless husks that litter the yard.

This definitely needs fixing.

[Diomedes]

I can't speak for the remastered version because I haven't reached that level yet.. But I distinctly remember needing tons of firepower to kill it.. Specifically tons of the multi-beam frigates you get from Khadesh.

[DD The Pumpkin King]

Didn't want to go through the junkyard with corvettes as the guns whittle them down so easily. But if the grav ship works this should be a lot easier then, the ship seemed too big to be effected so I'm surprised, I mean it single handedly man handles a Heavy Cruiser.

[mouth]

Originally posted by Gotcha!:

I think the biggest problem here is the fact that all inanimate objects in Karos are somehow enemy targets. I tried killing the junkyard dog too, but most of my ships decided to fire at the lifeless husks that litter the yard.

This definitely needs fixing.

Put your ships in passive tactic... They will fire in agressive one, sure, not in passive.

[dunadan]

Originally posted by imrahil2:

use a couple grav generators on it, when one grav gen is exhausted then turn on the other one and so on

Damn I wish I had read that before doing this mission. It was quite a pain in the ass, lost three destroyers and finally decided to build a vast fleet of heavy corvettes and destroy the turrets all the way to the ship wreck while my big guns remained behind my mothership. I made an attempt at recovering my destroyers with salvage coverettes but failed miserably.

I needlessly lost quite a lot of ressources doing this mission.

[Feallan]

Anyone else getting absurd fps drops in this mission?

[Cernar]

You can kill em, they are meant to be hard as hell and take your caps from you. run grav gens or a tight formaton and focus everything on em

[steve]

this mission is actually ridiculously easy.. just fly a group of corvettes AROUND the junk yard (as opposed to going right through it) and you only have to kill the few auto-turrets surrounding the objective. I would suggest going over or under it.