Can't defeat 'endboss'

[Hlosepp]

Are there any good tactics how to survive the last battle on hard?
How much zeppelins I'm supposed to kill?

[twoflower]

yeah, it sucks. And thanks to "no saves" we have to start over and over and over and...

[Black Mambo № 5]

I think your problem might be dealing with the Patriots, they are the ones who will cause much trouble and do max damage to the ship.
Think there were 4-5 Zeppelins you have to destroy in the final wave. But Make sure you take out Patriots using the Songbird before they get to close.

@twoflower, how would having "saves" help you in clearing it, you know you could keep on dying after a save point as well?

[Yamajii]

Abuse 'return to sender' to take out patriots / infantry. It's really, really strong. You can still shoot whilst using it and it absorbs all bullets as long as you have salt. Absorb enough bullets and you should be able to drop about 75% of their health with it.

[twoflower]

Just repeatedly starting the battle from the very begining is unnerving. As substrance says.

[twoflower]

Aiming the Return is quite tricky, isnt it? I seem just to get lucky with that. Well, will cool down and try again.

[Black Mambo № 5]

Originally posted by twoflower:

Aiming the Return is quite tricky, isnt it? I seem just to get lucky with that. Well, will cool down and try again.

Nah, it's actually like throwing a grenade. Just need to get a good grip of it.

[Wasted_46]

what I did was
1, Use songbirs on the Zeppelins only
2, Use undertow to knock the rocket launcher guys off the ship
3, When the patriots came, I always used posession on one and unloaded onto the back of the other with a peppermill gun.

[Hlosepp]

Thank you guys, I did it, finally. It was pretty easy with the strategies you gave me!

[Fresh Beeps]

Anything that does heavy dmg to your ship should be taken out first. Focus on zepplins and the gun ships as much as possible, but, unless you have plenty of salt, make sure to use the bird on the ground if both lincoln's make it to the core. The core is more important then anything else, even zepplins. I failed once but after I made sure to stop dmg before clearing the zepplins I made it too.

[Chef]

for the patriots i just used the electro undertow combo and it wipes the health...and make sure you focus songbird on the zeps.

[Lanceler]

u can also jump in one zeppelin, hurry in destoying the motor while songbird focus on the patriots on deck if u dont have any heavy damaging gun on you. The zepellin dont need weapon and u can run to the motor fairly quickly

[Bearded Gamer]

In this video, this guy makes it with ease it seems:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oioHhRcMLU

[Throne]

possession is a good one because u can pop it on like 3 normal enemies and they will suicide as soon as you use it on the next target. also putting it on the patriots helps because the patriots will fight each other(there's two of them), undertow is a good one too. song bird on zeppelins(the big ones with white blimp) and the one smaller ship at the back that fires rockets. i also used songbird once or twice on the deck of ship to help with big groups. i was playing on 1999 tho. i had just over 200 coins when i started that fight and had no coin to revive again if i died when i beat it. it was a close call

[Xamn]

The biggest mistake, I think most people make is to not realize that songbird cools down very fast when hitting soldiers. When the huge zeppelin appears, it will do nothing until you look at it and it turns red. Then it sends out the patriots. Use songbird on those patriots. Itll cool down quick then you take out the zeppelin.

Fight some more, take out gunships.

Then the 2 final zeppelins appear. Same deal. The patriots are sent, use songbird to kill them. Zeppelin 2 immediately sends out its patriots, use songbird to kill them. Now the zeppelins just sit there and do nothing. Use songbird on them. Clean up. The generator lost less than half of its bar.

Rejoice.

[Rakanishu]

My strategy was to switch from hard to easy mode after doing this boss 5 times :x I was so pissed and wanted to end it, starting back from the very beginning was annoying.