Guess what!

[TheGlove]

salvage, kill fuel pods and USE multiguns... they kick some serious kadeshi ass

[Nerath]

Xtron -- Supernova Station takes some planning. Go to your sensor map. See those dust trails? The whole point of this level is the radiation from the station. Stay in the dust and the radiation won't affect you. Fighters can't take it outside the dust. Capital ships can, and the length of time depends on what ship it is.

Here's my advice:

1. Build a carrier. You'll need it to ship fighters and corvettes from dust lane to dust lane.

2. Make sure your resourcers don't go outside the dust lanes.

3. Rally your fleet and prepare to kick some butt. Watch out; there are minelayers (very anti-capital ship and devastating) and heavy cruisers in this level. As long as you keep that in mind, you'll be fine. It's a tedious level, but not a particularly difficult one if you plan your attacks.

[Raven]

i actually had a lot of fun the second time around, but what can I say, I'm a tedious person.

[TheGlove]

yeah... supernova sucks

[Raven]

I hate supernova too. i think i looked at the desighn and moved on to the assault frigate.

[Dodo 129]

I hate multiguns... i just have some form of grudge against all corvettes except minelayers and salvage....
in one internet game, i was attacked by 4 HC's. i desrtoyed 3 with mines b4 i died....

[TheGlove]

mass strike craft = T3H PWNAGE

[Raven]

killer bees inspire me.

too bad the interceptors take so long to build

[TheGlove]

yeah... in hw2 they come in packs...

[Elukka]

The Kadeshi were a pain to beat until i thought about blowing up their fuel pods. Then i just used fighters and stuff to destroy those immobilized fighters. I didn't even build multi-guns. Supernova station is tedious, but like Nerath said, it's not too hard if you plan out your attacks properly. Err, btw, the radiation didn't come from the station.

[TheGlove]

yeah, it came from a supernova beyond it... thats why the name "supernova station"

[Nerath]

You know, for once, I agree with you, Dodo. I've never liked corvettes. Strike craft swamp them and they can't outrun frigs.

I like defenders. They seem like the most useless ships until you get 50 and put them in a big X formation and take on thousands of strike craft. Defenders own copious amounts of strike craft. The only problem with them is they're slow, so they have to sit behind the offensive line and shoot if you're trying to fight frigates. But they can add some much-needed power against cap ships.

And, to address your earlier question on page 1, there is no faster way to beat the Kadeshi than blowing up their fuel pods. If you don't do that, it'll take forever to beat them. Just ignore their fighters, salvage their frigates (Seriously. Do it. Multibeams are the most offensively powerful frigates in the game.), and turn those frigs on their needleships.

[TheGlove]

i tryed to salvage a kadeshi mothership once XD

hilarious

[Nerath]

Surprisingly, you also can't salvage that Turanic carrier early in the game. Hey, it's not a mothership, so why shouldn't you be able to? It has salvage points (the ship is programmed with them), but for some reason it's not stealable. *sigh* Maybe they just didn't want to design the docking options and such for another race's carrier. They'd already done two.

[TheGlove]

yeah... i always tryed to capture it... until i found out it was impossible... i wondered if i could build raiders fighter w/ it...