EASIEST WAY TO COMPLETE KAROS GRAVEYARD AKA JUNKYARD DOG MISSION !!!!

[Krimzon Angel]

get a group of fighters/corvets, fly straight down to the lowest limit, then fly horizontal till ur under your dock ship, then fly straight up, take out turrets nearby, and/or dock one fighter/corvet while you distract turrets with the rest, mission done. i figured this out after much frustration w/ the dogs/turrets.

[Krimzon Angel]

this way you avoid all the annoyance, its not cheating its strategy, thinking outside the box, and remembering the 3d plane. I bet the original devs did this to troll us and see who would figure it out.

[Spacemonkey]

I just send my heavy cruisers/destroyers right on through. Blast everything on the way.

[SievertChaser]

With three captured heavies by that point (in three different colours!), I froze the Dawg with gravity gens, and blasted it.

[Goosey]

Originally posted by Smurfinater:

this way you avoid all the annoyance, its not cheating its strategy, thinking outside the box, and remembering the 3d plane. I bet the original devs did this to troll us and see who would figure it out.

Im pretty sure anyone could figure it out :P

[brionl]

Or fly over the top. Or around the outside.

[Adino]

Originally posted by Smurfinater:

this way you avoid all the annoyance, its not cheating its strategy, thinking outside the box, and remembering the 3d plane. I bet the original devs did this to troll us and see who would figure it out.

I figured this out my very first playthrough in classic lol. I didn't even know about the dog until I read a walkthrough during a later playthrough

[Diomedes]

.. I seriously have no idea how people are struggling with this mission.... You should have like 50k resources or more by this point and just can spam strike craft.. Seriously the remastered campaign is a joke when it comes to difficulty.

[Krimzon Angel]

i dont kn ow why anyone struggles w/ any of the missions, unless you are new to the strategy concept of these games i think the remastered missions were cake compared to the originals, or maybe im older and wiser now lol

[Curly Hooligan]

This was my first thought after I first realised just how many turrets there were and just how annoying the Junkyard Dog is, but I went all the way up at first - there's still some turrets up there - so reloaded and went low with about 40 Heavy Corvettes and 20 Attack Bombers (overkill, but the survivors came in useful on later missions).

I read some other strategies after completing it, and the popular ones seem to involve sacrificing cheaper ships or having a wall of Gravwell Generators to distract the Junkyard Dog and sending Destroyers right down the centre to clear the turrets. Absolute waste of resources, especially if the Dog goes for a destroyer or two when you're distracted.
Using cheap, non-capital ships with good attack en masse was my first thought, as it made the Junkyard Dog useless, and then avoiding most of the turrrets by flying low also worked great for me. Plus, you need as many Destroyers and Frigates as possible for the next mission.

[ExavierMacbeth]

Originally posted by Smurfinater:

i dont kn ow why anyone struggles w/ any of the missions, unless you are new to the strategy concept of these games i think the remastered missions were cake compared to the originals, or maybe im older and wiser now lol

Mostly I think it has to do with the loss of a gameplay mechanic. Homeworld 1 originally had a refueling function so fighter craft didn't have the actual range to pull off these kinds of tricks.

That and functioning formations, especially with the nebula swarmer missions, made them downright evil.

Can't do anything about the former, but I hope when they fix the latter that it brings back some of the fun :P