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[Urist McOverlord]

Never played homeworld 1. Big fan of 2, though. If I may be so bold as to request a squadron:

10x multi-gun corvettes (or other anti-strikecraft corvette)
2x support frigates
5x ion frigates (or other anti-capital ship)

I know we don't actually have any of this stuff yet, but when we do, this would be it.

[Orb]

Never played homeworld 1. Big fan of 2, though. If I may be so bold as to request a squadron:

10x multi-gun corvettes (or other anti-strikecraft corvette)
2x support frigates
5x ion frigates (or other anti-capital ship)

I know we don't actually have any of this stuff yet, but when we do, this would be it.

That's a pretty tall order. Maybe something a bit smaller? Its manageable, for sure, but if a lot of people want squads, I'll have to cut that down to something like 5x multi-gun with 1 support frigate, and 4 ion frigates.

Anyway, here is the update. I found a history button on the firefox thing, so I can retrace most of my links.

Spoiler: Mission 2: Outskirts of Kharak System - Update 5 (click to show/hide)

So, I wanted to lay out my typical 3 step plan when I start a mission.



1. Get the resource collectors harvesting. Time is money.



2. Check my research screen to see if any new techs are available. There is, the Corvette Drive. This allows us to build repair corvettes and springboards us into the corvette tech tree.



3. Organize the fleets. I already did this, so I cant do your idea ML. However, at the end of this update I will try to quickly organize them and show a picture for the next one.

So now that we got that done, lets get to the mission objective.









Probe away.









Oh hey, look! Its the Khar-Selim. They probably had a communication malfunction or someth-






.....wait. What the heck!? Ho-

















MS: They're attacking?!. . . The Mothership is under attack!

FI: Engage incoming units. The Mothership must be defended.

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Overview






Ships Same as before.
Squads Alpha Squadron of 8 Interceptors lead by Sheb.

That concludes this update. We will get our first real taste of combat in the next update, which will be either today or tomorrow.

I cannot recommend too much the use of Textarea Cache: a firefox add-on that save anything you type in a form, so you don't loose it if you refresh.

I will look into that. Might save me a lot of trouble down the road. Thanks. Also, I have never downloaded an add-on, so unless its "Nonuser friendly", I might need some help.

"Edit" Ok, I think I got the correct add-on installed.

[Urist McOverlord]

Yeah, cutting it down is fine.

[Cheese]

Oh wow, a homeworld LP 

[Orb]

Oh wow, a homeworld LP 

Yep, and I'm too lazy to keep doing it. Stupid XTA, why did I download you!? 



I got the pictures, its just a pain in the neck to upload them. There is a 90% chance that my lazyness will fail and I'll upload the next update today, so fingers crossed. 

[Orb]

Darn it, my homework took most of my free time, so I couldn't update today.



I will update tomorrow, even if it means skipping dinner. 

[Cheese]

Shame they never made a third. The second actually has a thriving mod community.

[Orb]

Shame they never made a third. The second actually has a thriving mod community.

Had to do with licensing issues. Company sold IP, wanted it back, yaughta yaughta yaughta, or something. I think Relic or somebody got the IP back, and are making a 3rd. I didn't really follow the story, as you can tell.


Anyway, its 10 PM, and I-will-update.

Spoiler: Mission 2: Outskirts of Kharak System - Update 6 (click to show/hide)

Wow, combat scenes are hard to capture.

Anyway, I plan to do updates objective based. Makes it easier to manage.

Here are the best pictures I could pick out of the combat.























We took some damage, but no losses occurred.



FI: Hostile units destroyed. Threat eliminated.

MS: Mothership sustained minor hull damage. Repairs are underway.

FI: The Khar-Selim has been destroyed. Heavy weapon damage is visible on the remaining fragment. A salvage Corvette must be sent to retrieve the mission data recorder.






I docked the ships at the end to keep them ship shape.


So that concludes the "plot" portion of this update.


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We got a new unit! The repair corvette.

The Repair Corvette is capable of repairing and refueling Fighters “in the field.” While equipped with only a small gun, the Repair Corvette has heavy armor to protect itself and the craft it’s repairing. Timely support from a Repair Corvette can be quite useful in a long battle.





It can also repair frigate sized ships and up with this weird green spray. Maybe its glue or something.

Note: Frigate sized ships and up can not dock, and therefore have to repair manually(which takes ages). The best option is to repair it with a vessel. There are two that can do it, the repair corvette and X(we will learn about it later).



We also have a new tech!(which was unlocked from researching the previous)





Corvette Chassis : Allows us to build the light corvette.







I gained some resources during the combat(our harvester worked hard  ), so I can afford to add some new units. If you cant see the picture, we can afford 9 more interceptors + a repair corvette(mainly for the picture, but I bet it will find its use).

Due to the new interceptors, I increased the size of your squad to 10 interceptors Sheb.





Finely, here is those formations you asked for Monkey. I will test them in the next combat operation.


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Ships

Well, same. When I start the next update I will have finished the production order, so just add last update + the production order. (yes, I'm lazy. )

....and that concludes this update. Its 10:50 now, so I'm going to have a rough time getting up tomorrow. You guys better thank me. D:

[SHAD0Wdump]

*thanks you*

Although you probably shouldn't compromise your morning routine for the sake of our entertainment.

[Cheese]

<3 you. I'm almost convinced to dig out both my old HWs and have a full campaign playthrough. Was the campaign of HW2 connected to the first? I remember it pretty much the same back-story but different main plot.

[Sheb]

10 Interceptor! That's a sizable forces!

Okay, I suggest adding a corvette to my squad and go reclaim that stuff we need to reclaim.

[Orb]

*thanks you*

Although you probably shouldn't compromise your morning routine for the sake of our entertainment.

Nah, I've been going to bed late lately anyway. Though I didn't expect it to take that long.   

<3 you. I'm almost convinced to dig out both my old HWs and have a full campaign playthrough. Was the campaign of HW2 connected to the first? I remember it pretty much the same back-story but different main plot.

Well, I don't really want to spoiler, but it works like this. They are connected. Cataclism happens a couple hundred years(I think) after Homeworld, and Homeworld 2 happens about another 1000 years after Cataclism(I think again). So they are basically connected, its the same plot, with twists in it in each game. You are the same faction in each game, with the same general idea. "Last hope" and ect.

10 Interceptor! That's a sizable forces!

Okay, I suggest adding a corvette to my squad and go reclaim that stuff we need to reclaim.

Which corvette? We have the salvage and the repair. I rarely use repair corvettes, so I may be a bit clunky with them if you chose it. Otherwise, I will just use it for background repairing.


"Edit" I should be a bit better with explaining how the plot works. You have plot A in homeworld. Plot B happens after plot A(could think of it like an expantion), and plot C happens after plot B(same universe, same factions, just further in time)

[Urist McOverlord]

<3 you. I'm almost convinced to dig out both my old HWs and have a full campaign playthrough. Was the campaign of HW2 connected to the first? I remember it pretty much the same back-story but different main plot.

Yeah. Homeworld 2 basically takes place after the events of homeworld 1 and cataclysm. So homeworld 1 essentially is the second bit of backstory for homeworld 2.

[Sheb]

Which corvette? We have the salvage and the repair. I rarely use repair corvettes, so I may be a bit clunky with them if you chose it. Otherwise, I will just use it for background repairing.

I meant the salvage one.

[Orb]

Which corvette? We have the salvage and the repair. I rarely use repair corvettes, so I may be a bit clunky with them if you chose it. Otherwise, I will just use it for background repairing.

I meant the salvage one.

The thing is, is that 1 salvage corvette cant do much. It can be used for special mission objectives, plus capturing fighters/corvettes(which, as mentioned before, is near impossible).

Also someone else already had "dibs" on the first few salvage corvettes we get.

Finely, I would like to specialize squads, so adding salvage corvettes to a fast combat squad doesn't make too much sense in my mind.