Take out the shield generators. Focus on them and nothing else. Then follow the directions they give you. It's been such a long time since I did that but I do vaguely remember that you can hide behind the shield generators and use their own fire against them.

On the huge asteroid, there's a large arch, and in the centre of that is a slight bulge, around that there are four diamond-shaped shield generators. Basically just fly towards that area and "Shield Generator" will appear on the target display

"There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't"

And remember: DON"T, I repeat, DON'T fly into the cylinder with lightning bolt thingys flying inside of it. Radiation in there hurts.

Dark Helmet: Gimme that, you petty excuse of an officer!
Now hear this: LUDICROUS SPEED!!!
Col. Sanders: Sir, hadn't you better buckle up?
Dark Helmet: Eh, buckle this! Ludicrous speed...GO!!!

I always found it much more easy to dive below the asteroid, and come up through that cylinder to attack the shield generators...........

.......then dive back down when you needed time to let your shield recover...............................

Load yourself up a dragon with 4 blood dragon lasers, 2 missiles and a torp launcher, oh and a mine and countermeasure.

As soon as you have finished off the first attack patrol, fly to the bottom of the rock and fly up through the tube, target each of the crystal generators and loose four torpedoes at each of them. Target the one closest to the battleship and launch two extra torps, it sould have been destroyed by now, if not, launch a few missiles and blow it up.
The other three generators are relativley easy, launch 2 missile pairs, take an afterburner run at the gen, and fly around it, shooting it with your lasers as many times as possible, if the gen is offscreen when your circling then dump a mine to boost the damage on the generator.
Repeat for all three generators.
When the shield goes down, afterburn to the top of the arch as get a fix on the docking port, once you have it sighted, fly towards it and dock when ur about 400M away.


After you get off the arch, you come under attack by 8 Dragons and 2 Rhienland gunships, this bit is fairly easy, destroy the gunships by taking a mine run first, and then swinging around and pounding the @$$ out of them from behind with ur lasers, finish what fighters there are left (Juni and some blood dragons have turned up and will make mincemeat of the kusari forces pretty quickly) with whatever tactics suit you. Once the last fighter is dispatched, you can relax, just one hop back to chugoku and land on kyoto, no more fighting, for now.

i don't like ur stragety. u use too many mine, torps and missiles. what i did was destroy the battleship. Then just shoot at the shield generators. Surprisingly enough, when u destroy the battleship, the fighters don't shoot at you that much.

Possibly you though the fire you were receiving was from the fighters when it actually was from the battleship turrets?

Launch a few Starkillers at the Battleship and then concentrate your lasers on it while moving your ship up and down in a wave pattern so they can't get a good lock on you. The little ships are busy with your friends so concentrate your fire on the sheild generators.

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