On the mission, you probably only need to kill one of them, If I remember correctly. After that, you should be good.

I parked my dromedary just behind the head section of the battleship, putting the alien ship between me and a rheinland cruiser. Laser shots from the cruisers usually hit the alien battleship (including most fired missiles)

once one battleship is destroyed, the NPC will do some kamikaze act and destroy the rest of the alien battleship in a single volley. It's time for you to run...

You'll be safe once you got into the mine field, need not use cruise engine.

Thanks a lot. Thought I had to kill them all. Just got through it. Agaim THANKS you saved my sanity or my computer

That confused me HOW ONE guy kamikaziing can destroy 5 battleships

I think there was 2 guys kamikazing. And they even took out the shipyards.

Maybe they have sunslayer torp....

more like they knew they were gonna suicide and outfitted their engines with improved reactors that give a bigger boom

Ahha! young ones, you obviously have missed the (sacrifice self to complete mission) button located just under the "you are here" indicator on the center console of all Rhineland ships.

This is a Rhineland unique feature mounted on all of our ships. The button is never installed when ships are sold to non-Rhinelanders.

So, hope this clears things up a bit. Check back later, will tell you how the doughnut of doom works, hehe.