Sun Mar 09, 2003 10:58 pm by Jason
This is a VERY hard mission - unfortunately, you're actually at the "easy part" comparatively speaking.
First off, I'm pretty sure the "Order" gear is better than anything you can have at this level - so trade in for an Anubis and Order Shield and Order thrusters and order weapons - I went with 6 fast level 6s and a debiltator turret - perhaps the turret is a poor choice since Nomads are unshielded but it helped with everything else.
Anyway, you only need to destroy the sat, not the rest of the platforms and whatnot. The navy fighters are using Nomad guns, which will eat through you like butter, so do not fight straight up. Avoid any kind of headon strafing run like the sort that is so useful against pirates with WEAKER guns than you. Instead fly around very evasively, conserve bots and batteries and just slowly chip away at navy fighter when you have to fight them. The same will go for nomad ships which you'll face a crapload of later. Pack a starkiller (or if you were clever, sunslayer) torpedo with a full load of torps, because there are a lot of generators and such garbage to deal with in the last missions. Keep your cool and save your gear on that whole mission, it is the hardest in the game imo. When you are escaping, bear in mind that you need to wait for certain events sometimes in hopeless fights. Although in the order system when Von Clausen comes to help you (this may be the battery mission instead of the president mission) you actually have to win an insanely unbalanced fight, which looked so bad I assumed there was a rescue event. Whoops.