Tips and advise On this page I have decided to put down a few of the tactics I used to beat the game, I hope that they are useful to you! Homeworld *Many enemy ship will fire on one ship at a time, while they are busy blasting one of your capital ship (which is being repaired by a support frigate and is set to evasive tactics so it won't fire back and destroy the target!) you can send in salvage corvettes to steal the ship. *Allways cover your salvage corvettes with at least one support frigate. *You can steal the carrier that is only four missions into the game just destroy every thing else first. *If you band Destroyers together they are vunrable to strike craft. Allways use missile Destroyers as a defensive guard against this (for every 4 Destroyers one Missile Destroyer) and allways use this tactic when sending out Heavy cruisers they are to expensive to lose! *There are plenty of resources avalible it's only how patient you are as to how much you collect. Turn the monitor off and come back later! The resourcers will get the job done eventually! *On the astroid field mission send all ships away fom the mothership and keep back 4/5 support frigates. There are resources here, just keep telling your collectors to collect. *The game adapts to how many ships you have. If you build your fleet to max and then steal 10 frigates you can expect the next mission to allow for this! Only steal carriers and cruisers, frigates should be retired for resources. *The mission in the great nebula don't bother with the swarners go for the fuel pods. The fighters run out of fuel so quickly that even destroyers can pick them off without even trying! *Fighters become less important as the game progresses but try to keep at least 20 in dock. On the last mission several enemy fleets will go for your capital ships, launch your fighters at them and they will try to destroy these first, allowing your capital ships to come in and attack with out retalliation! *Minelayer corvettes have got to be the most under used ship in the fleet and one of the most powerful. On the last mission set the corvettes in wall formation in front of the mothership(after the first two attacks) and drop mines. When the fifth enemy fleet hyperspaces in the wall of mines will reduce them to scrap metal! This tactic can also be used on the hyperspace inhibitor station and the asteroid mission to great effect. *As soon as prox sensors can be built, build as many as you can and set them to guard capital ships. This way your ships will never be caught out as an alarm is raised telling you what is happening while you are looking else where. Homeworld: Cataclysm *The important thing to realise in CATACLYSM is that the mothership is a very effective weapons platform. On the mission where you have to rescue the damaged destroyer send the mothership use the time speed up to get you there quicker. When the turanic raiders attack the mothership can all but defeat them on its own. This tactic can also be used to on the mission to rescue a frigate from a minefield. *Allways keep a recon next to your mothership/carrier and when trouble arrives dock the vessel. If you don't you end up building dozens of the things. *Multi beam frigates replace missile destroyers in this game. In later missions use them as guard craft for carriers. *Again there are lots of resoures to be collected, hang around and collect them. *Build up to your max of fighters untill frigate drive tech can give you multi beam frigates. Then reduce your fighters to about 12 *On the refugee ship mission put your fighters into groups 10-12, set them to sphere formation and guard each ship (for very hard skill level you need 15-20 fighters!) I have only lost one ship to the beast this way. *Use way pionts to guide the mothership through the minefield on level 3 *When you have to escort the damaged carrier use workers to repair it. It will repair back to 100%. Use a mimic to spy on the base. *When you have to send in the resource collectors on a hit and run mission to the republican base follow the ships in with the mothership. Your ships that act as a diversion should be two ships set on aggresive tactics and 6-8 multi beam frigates on guard, with abit of luck some of these should keep the enemy fleet off you but if they do turn there attention to the mothership build only ramming frigates to send into battle, the enemy goes for your fleet first then you. *Destroy enemy hive frigates on sight! *On the last mission of the game hunt down and destroy the beast carriers first there are 3-4 of them.Use leeches to destroy the moons nodes and the seige cannon to waste the moon. As soon as the Bentusi appear build the fighters they give you from the mothership and carriers as all capital ships are now dead in the water. 15 super acolytes will destroy a heavy cruiser and escort in about 2 minutes flat! *Build ramming frigates to attract the beast ship in the last mission. *On the last mission destroy the crystal field to take out the beast fleet from that direction. *Patience is the key to the final mission, just take it easy let them come to you.
