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[JasonPratt]

Almost lost last night's 2nd campaign mission, defending some crystal-energy extraction mines offshore. Swarmed by a constant stream of small to medium gunships before the Big Daddy came crawling from a different direction. Managed to kill it finally, thus ending the mission, not much more than 10 seconds before losing one of the rigs.

My biggest mistake was the designers deciding the game shouldn't ship with instructions anywhere. ;) Specifically, the end of the 1st mission told me I now had access to the docks for force composition twiddling, but gave me ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA how or when this screen would pop up. Consequently, when the mission started I had to use the two crappy small cruisers (NOT EVEN A REAR TURRET, REALLY!?!?) and a nearly useless minelayer which the game defaults to. I'm kind of shocked I managed to eke out a win after all.

Since the 3rd mission was clearly going to continue without taking me to a composition screen, I fiddled around for a minute until I found it myself. Will be going into the next mission rather more prepared this time I hope.

[TheCommandTent]

Finally beat the first mission, I am really terrible at this game. Tried the second mission out and promptly sunk one of my ships with my own mines while ramming two others into each other.  :o  Apparently I wasn't meant to command ships in battle.

[Gusington]

Haha well there are no command tents on ships anyway.

[GDS_Starfury]

Finally beat the first mission, I am really terrible at this game. Tried the second mission out and promptly sunk one of my ships with my own mines while ramming two others into each other.  :o  Apparently I wasn't meant to command ships in battle.

I hear theres an opening in the Canadian tug fleet.

[TheCommandTent]

Haha well there are no command tents on ships anyway.

Finally beat the first mission, I am really terrible at this game. Tried the second mission out and promptly sunk one of my ships with my own mines while ramming two others into each other.  :o  Apparently I wasn't meant to command ships in battle.

I hear theres an opening in the Canadian tug fleet.

haha  ;D

[JasonPratt]

Created new designs last night and played mission 3. It seems like the heavy shore batteries are completely invulnerable...?? Which is kind-of not a problem, since the only mission goal (aside from go-here) is to destroy the superbattleship, but I wasted some time shooting at the gun batteries instead of the Goliath.

Barely finished the mission alive; will need to rethink my design theory; if the mission had given a clearer idea how large the supership was (VERY VERY LARGE!) I would have brought some dedicated minelayers (with minelayers in sane positions.)

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

So?  What's the verdict?  Is it any good?

[JasonPratt]

I haven't played it for the past couple of days, concentrating on trying to finish up the Stronghold 1 campaign; but I think it's a winner so far. Will post more thoughts when I get around to continuing the campaign.