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[FasterThanSleepyfish]

Use the standard conquest variant for the following changes:

Step one: switch out Molinjr Cannons with MK9 Autocannons.
Step two: remove Pilums.
Step three: swtich out Heavy Autocannons with Heavy Maulers.
Step four: put in ITU.
Step five: dump the rest of the free OP into vents.

With this setup, your conquest can be the ultmate flagship on the battlefield! Unfortunately, this is not the case against the enemy's onslaught, so be careful of one sneaking up on your fleet after you've mauled a few of their smaller ships.

Score: 34% (with 100% damage to player ship on)

[LazyWizard]

Forlorn Hope has a Paragon, not a Conquest. Are you thinking of The Last Hurrah? Or are you playing one of the mods that switches around vanilla mission fleet compositions?

[FasterThanSleepyfish]

Whoops! Fixed, thanks lazy!

[Gothars]

Last Hurrah is my favorite mission   My optimal loadout is Hellbores, Heavy Needlers, Proximity Charges and Burst PD. Hey, this is a good opportunity to upload my first YT video. Thanks Cycerin, for the OBS tip!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLpVW12VCVs

[FasterThanSleepyfish]

Daww, Gothars! Foiled yet another challenge with a high score!

Anyways, good job. The AI seemed to always show you their backsides too, how strange. Also, why didn't it deplou the onslaught and all of the enforcers at once? I get that situation every time...

[HELMUT]

I'm kinda glad Starsector don't have planned multiplayer, i would be too afraid to end up against Gothars.

Anyway, that tactic of blindly throwing proximity charge at the beginning of the fight to take down fighter wings is pretty smart, gonna try it.

Also, how did you knew that destroying the Dominator would force the enemy to retreat?

[Gothars]

Daww, Gothars! Foiled yet another challenge with a high score!
Anyways, good job. The AI seemed to always show you their backsides too, how strange. Also, why didn't it deplou the onslaught and all of the enforcers at once? I get that situation every time...

Thanks I have no clue about the deployment, just random I guess.
As to "showing me their backs", only the Onslaught did that, and that was kinda planned. 1) I was actually behind the point it would come out of burndrive. 2) The last Dom got destroyed just after the Onslaught arrived, triggering its immediate retreat (->turn). That it locked on to the Fighter first was lucky, though.

I'm kinda glad Starsector don't have planned multiplayer, i would be too afraid to end up against Gothars.

I don't think I would be all that great, a big portion of the success is predicting the AI, finding a tactic to exploit it and determining the optimal loadout for that tactic. With a human opponent much of that would be obsolete. e/ I just realized that I play the missions as puzzles! 

Also, how did you knew that destroying the Dominator would force the enemy to retreat?

I played the mission once before with the same tactic and that's what happened, got only 70% that way. There's probably a way to get all those fighters too, and reach 100%...

[Cycerin]

Hellbores are amazing against lowtech ships.

[Lcu]

Last Hurrah is my favorite mission   My optimal loadout is Hellbores, Heavy Needlers, Proximity Charges and Burst PD. Hey, this is a good opportunity to upload my first YT video. Thanks Cycerin, for the OBS tip!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLpVW12VCVs

How do you set it to holding fire?

[Gothars]

Press X! See here: http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=5670.0

Hellbores are amazing against lowtech ships.

Yeah, so much that they could use a nerf. If they can easily kill frigates, without any skills, that kinda invalidates things like the Mjolnir and Hephaestus.

[Lcu]

Wow, that keyboard map really is useful, thanks.

I never thought that the Conquest is so powerful (with skillful pilots).