Broken Alliance Mission 8 help

[Sabaithal]

Ok, so one of the main objectives was to not harm the canceron ships. I can't even target them, so I'm not sure why this is an objective.

So I start the mission, moving my fleet in tight formation towards the base star when cylon reinforcements come in from all sides and all hell breaks loose. Now its getting fun.

AND THEN the base star fires a nuke at the nearest canceron minotaur, blows it up, and the mission fails. WHAT??? The enemy ship is right next to the canceron ships. How on earth am I supposed to intercept that???

I'm legitimately confused here. What am I supposed to do?

[Sabaithal]

Second attempt. Tried PCMs this time and putting all fighters defending key targets. Didn't work. Nuke was still fired after the PCMs were triggered and fighters could not intercept the nuke before it nails one of the ships and destroys it.

Is anyone else having this issue?

[Spartan Delta 27]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Second attempt. Tried PCMs this time and putting all fighters defending key targets. Didn't work. Nuke was still fired after the PCMs were triggered and fighters could not intercept the nuke before it nails one of the ships and destroys it.

Is anyone else having this issue?

I do not remember the mission in question unfortunately. That said, trying to put one of your Capital Ships within range of these vessels should help with interception duty if necessary. Failing that, it is worth checking to see if you can utilize the Defend command right on the ships in question. Usually my Squadrons are very good at intercepting hostile munitions and can even take down nukes without issue.

[gmuir77]

I've not seen the mission go sideways as you describe. I've played it twice on the two goes through the campaign I did and the Cylons were pretty much all eyes on me.

In story missions check to see if you get command of additional friendlies. Those minotaurs will respond to your command. You can always send vipers out to protect friendlies.

You might need to get closer to keep the Cylons focused on you. They seem to pick favorite targets and get fixated.

I've noticed storyline missions aren't subject to random spawns as much, tend to be a bit more scripted.

[Sabaithal]

This is before they are put under your command. And its possible that one of the minotaurs is just being caught in the crossfire (because it move out of the damn way of my heavily armored Minervas and a Cylon Argyros).

I specifically did the next run with my ships trying to avoid a straight line between the base star and the ships in question. The Cylons targeted us this time. Not sure if that is coincidence, or it really was just a case of the escort ships being caught in the crossfire. If so, the AI pathfinding of these ships needs to be looked at for this specific mission.