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Can anyone beat "The Last Hurrah"?
« on: April 24, 2017, 02:22:46 AM »

This one is a tough nut for me. One the one hand you need enormous anti-capital destructive power to take out an Onslaught and six cruisers, on the other hand your are swarmed by 16 fighter wings and need to defend against them. All while being totally outnumbered, of course. I don't really see yet how to get through that. Anyone got ideas?


For extra hard mode, do it with standard loadout!
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Re: Can anyone beat "The Last Hurrah"?
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2017, 06:13:22 AM »

I haven't beaten it yet, but I've done pretty well loading each Heron with 2x Khopesh Rocket Bombers and 1x Spark Interceptor, 3 Tactical Lasers forward + 1 HVD + PD Lasers in the remaining slots and loading the Conquest with 2x Gauss Cannons + 2x Heavy Maulers on one side and 2x Devastators on the other side, with the energy slots filled with Burst/Heavy Burst PD and the missiles filled with Pilums. I put an ITU on the Conquest and filled the rest of the space with vents and capacitors, but I'm thinking about maybe spending some of the leftover OP on a Converted Hanger + Talon instead. I haven't touched the loadouts of any of the other ships yet. I deployed the two Herons, the Conquest, and a Vigilance for the starting fleet.
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Re: Can anyone beat "The Last Hurrah"?
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2017, 07:49:43 AM »

I couldn't after customizing Conquest only.
And customizing the rest is too much of a hassle due to variants not saving properly in missions most of the time (is there some simple way to bypass this problem?).
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Re: Can anyone beat "The Last Hurrah"?
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2017, 09:05:32 AM »

I haven't beat it yet.  Extremely difficult now that you can't deploy your entire fleet and deathball around.
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Re: Can anyone beat "The Last Hurrah"?
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2017, 09:06:22 AM »

I've done it, don't remember how
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Re: Can anyone beat "The Last Hurrah"?
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2017, 10:41:59 AM »

I've done it, don't remember how

In 0.8? Seems to me you would remember, because it probably requires quite some work/trial&error.


@ Aeson: tried that loadout, no dice. Currently I'm trying single ship deployments to whittle down the enemy fleet before the final Conquest+Herons finishes it off. In theory.
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Re: Can anyone beat "The Last Hurrah"?
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2017, 10:57:40 AM »

I've done it, don't remember how

In 0.8? Seems to me you would remember, because it probably requires quite some work/trial&error.

Oh, are we talking in this patch? No, why did it change?
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Re: Can anyone beat "The Last Hurrah"?
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2017, 04:32:23 PM »

Outfit your conquest with gauss on one side and devastators on the other and give it a built in spark wing. Outfit your herons with 2 khopesh 1 spark and the gemini with one spark. Setup your eagle and falcons for long range fire with HVD and beams. Use the conquest to outflank and kill their Mora's with the devastators at close range while your falcons and eagles kite their capital ships.
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Re: Can anyone beat "The Last Hurrah"?
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2017, 04:49:21 PM »

Sparks and all the AI fighters are kind of cheap though, they're rewards for beating up the tough fights in salvaging and for finding research stations, which aren't too common, like to hide next to stars, and require significant amounts of salvage skills and equipment to properly exploit. No Sector ships mount them in variants and I don't think they can occur in any markets.
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Re: Can anyone beat "The Last Hurrah"?
« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2017, 06:54:17 PM »

Try it with Ion Cannon fighters, either Thunder or those tri tachyon drones. Enemies can't do much when they are disabled.

Or heck, go all out and outfit your carriers with the tempest's ion pulse drone.
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Re: Can anyone beat "The Last Hurrah"?
« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2017, 05:47:57 PM »

Finally managed it!

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Deploying the Conquest last, after using your other ships to soften up the enemy, was the key. I imagine the mission will be much easier in 8.1 after the Talon nerf.
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Re: Can anyone beat "The Last Hurrah"?
« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2017, 11:00:03 PM »

At the very end the enemy deploys 4 Moras together, I could never manage to beat that. :-\

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Re: Can anyone beat "The Last Hurrah"?
« Reply #12 on: May 01, 2017, 12:43:45 AM »

Beat it, with Conquest last, and multiple messy Frigate, Destroyer and Cruiser deaths :P

Basically had to play it Megas-style and kill 'em one by one until it was time to lock the Moras down, ugh.  Got lucky and they didn't all come in at once, too.
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Re: Can anyone beat "The Last Hurrah"?
« Reply #13 on: May 01, 2017, 11:28:23 AM »

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First try default load-out, guess I got lucky  ;D
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Re: Can anyone beat "The Last Hurrah"?
« Reply #14 on: May 01, 2017, 11:46:20 AM »

Not so much lucky, but using non-standard (200) battle size. If you can deploy everything at once it becomes considerably easier :)


If you manage it with standard layout and battle size I'll drink a beer on you!
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