Homeworld 2 | Campaign | Ep 2 

Whats with the ten minutes of black screen at the end?

This one was painful. Marine frigates vs marine frigates. Massed anti fighter corvettes (and the pulsars) against carriers while the bombers flew unsupported through fighter lines towards the same carriers. Flak gunships left in the frontlines to die alone.

"The difficulty spike in this mission is so steep." Meanwhile, not using gun platforms that could keep the shipyard clear while your ships hunt down the carriers as a pack instead of being picked apart piecemeal.

4-5 flak frigates murder 2 infiltrators in 30 seconds, pulsar corvettes buzz around shooting at fighters. Shak: 28:20 “how do you do this without a thousand capture frigates”. Me: facepalm.

Few points of advice, here; -Pulsar gunships reign supreme for anti-corvette and anti-frigate; try to avoid using them against other stuff, but they can mangle capital ships if need be. -Flak frigates, gunships, and interceptors chew up enemy fighters beautifully, so keep them around your important stuff. -Bombers do 200% damage to subsystems, so for sniping facilities they're king. -Marine frigates can indeed capture anything frigate-sized or larger, but the campaign limitations prevent you from capturing production ships. Hint: mass them up in teams of 4 for speedy caps. -Try to group ships by function; gunships & interceptors, pulsars & bombers, that sort of thing; it helps hugely. -Just FYI, formations are generally not so good for fighters and corvettes, but work for keeping frigates and capships together to cover each other.

From memory, interceptors stay relevant through basically the whole game. You use em to take out the enemy bomber equivalents, which if you ignore will murder you. You can't depend on a single ship type, got keep mix.

"Can we steal their stealy ships?!" Yes. They are useless, but you can do that to spite them, as well as making for instant cannon fodder.

I miss the way that in the original cutscenes (like that the start) you could sometimes hear other characters talking in the background. While the Vagyr leader was giving his ultimatum, you could hear the Higaran defenses marshaling to hold out.

the community patch 2.3 will fix that yellow patch on the Mothership above the fighter modules as well as other things! just wanna have you have the best play through experience. Thank you again for all you do! your my most fav Content creator.

WHy didn't we get the enemy carriers? Because they learned from the taidan from homeworld one and installed fortified plot armour .

The very first order you should have given was to move the Mothership close to the Shipyard. There it can provide much needed support in the fight over the Shipyard. When enemy carriers and shipyards show up in missions, use bombers to strip them of all subsystem modules at the first opportunity.

Might have been easier if you had Killed the Vagyr infiltrator ships more than trying to capture them Shack...

Vagyr have clearly superior strike crafts so even with the proper counter it takes longer, the only real hard counter agains a vagyr swarm is a combined fleet of flak and torpedo frigates. with a few corvettes/fighters to keeps em busy. Higaraan frigates and capitals generaly are better than their vagy counterpart though. Dat Higaraan Destroyer... Although the Vagyr Battlecruiser, while on paper less armed than the Higaraan one, is more adaptable. Vagyr BCs have better speed and firing angles while the Higaraan BC is a broadsider (think typical Astra Militarum warship), needs to be microed more especialy in a game with 3 axies. So definitly capture a Vagyr BC if you can. Edit: You can't capture production ships, but anything else in the Vagyr fleet is fair game. A combined fleet of Vagyr Strike craft and Higaraan capitals would be broken.

I LITERALLY just finished a Deserts of Kharak campaign. Love the videos Shack

Alright I know it's been a while since you've played it Shack heh but dont worry so when you have ships in a group they tend to strike one target so have them break out of the group to attack multiple targets

Not going to lie I was stuck on the mission with the shipyard for ages, but watching this video gave me some ideas and I was able to beat it

Thank you for playing this!!! it's so good. This game gives me all the feels

I have to wonder: Why didn't Shack just set everyone to Defend Orders for the part where he had to protect the shipyard?

"The difficulty spike is so intense." You're just bad Shack, you're bad. You're like a British commander during WWI.

I think using fighters and bombers would have been much more efficient to get the mission done. Bombers are great at killing frigates, moreso than pulsars, and fighters are much cheaper and faster than gunships or flak frigates.

large ship need more frigates to capture it 2 or 3 i remember,and love your series i hope u will add more of it

That formation at 6 mins worked because you brought a lot of firepower together. This sort of tactic works in warcraft 3 as well, where you clump guard towers together in a set of 6 and next to nothing takes them out.

Tips for this mission, carriers can not be capt, send in the bombers and take out the sub systems, send fighters to cover, and use corvets/frights to hold the shipyard. Your mother ship has guns, get them in the fight, nothing can put a dent in the mothership, and if its next to the shipyard than your new ships dont have to move to get into the fight.

Boarding will always fail if as result you'd exceed your ship limit.

Little did shack know, but your supposed to lose the shipyard to prove the use of the marine frigates

Literally all of these sounds are pure nostalgia for me.

Shack you're awesome thank you for this!! Been waiting since the first playthrough!

Flak Frigate is better for dealing with enemy fighter than gunships, gunships is better against enemy convettes.

Sorry to say this Captain, but I was laughing my pants off from start to finish with you attempting mission 3, I had known from past failures that this mission throws you in the deep end and seeing that your ships were dropping like flies was a breath of releef (first time wasn't all that different than yours, but the shipyard self destructed)

Keep going .. i played homeworld and fell in love too!!!

another free tip, after a certain point fighters becomes build only as needed and corvettes and frigates become your bread and butter.

You can capture things but it will count to ur fleet limits. The limits are specific to the class though... What im saying is u can capture their battlecruiser

Dam you shack you got me bit by the homeworld bug again. Now i have to play-through 2 again.

i love that shack doesnt even bother using his other ship group.... its like they dont exist

Love the vids. Keep it up man

It seems a lot of people don't know this, but marine frigates have a single anti frigate/capital ship turret. If you select the attack order after selecting the marine frigates and order attack on enemy frigates, instead of just right clicking on enemy ships, the marine frigates won't go and capture the ships, but just fire upon them... Its quite effective in small groups of focused fire, and will burn enemy frigates in under 5 seconds with 3-4 marine frigates. Also, pulsar corvettes may look pretty, but they are garbage against fighters, and average against capitals. Best to use them to screen larger ships (like the shipyard) from waves of corvettes and frigates. A defensive perimeter of pulsars, with gunship and interceptors support as they trickled in is easy mode, while supported bombers with interceptors and gunships is easy way to counter attack those carriers... and lastly, the chopping and changing targets a lot is probably what made this mission so hard for you. Flak frigates are barely needed here, but the extra dps is great because they are relatively fast firing, and can shred everything up to frigates when groups up and concentrating fire. Plus, they are cool as hell looking and sounding when firing. They are my second favourite ships in the game, after the Hiigaran Destroyers.

TheXPGamers: “hmmm… maybe we should build some gunships to deal with their corvettes. Are gunships good against corvettes?” * shipyard dying in the distance from enemy fire*

My strategy mostly: 1. Gunships and bombers in two or three groups (primary attack) 2. Flak and torpedo frigates in two or three groups (secondary attack) 3. The big boys with gun platforms (base of operations and resourcing) Most important mission is to control the resources and then attack capital ships. Rotate your primary attack groups for repairs.

i recently got this game in the 4 pound steam sale and have been loving it since

Yey. I rewatched your original playthrough of this recently.

Thank you for playing this.

One small step for man, one great leap for mankind

That carrier at the end had already been 'captured' so was registered by the mission as 'no longer a threat' but the mission also dictated that the carrier would not be added to the fleet.

I've been waiting for this!!!

notification squad - here quicker than you can say 'Homeworld and Shack are awesome'

Better get the uh well SPACE MARIANS to bord the enemy!!!

More Homeyworld Please, You rock!!!

EP 2 already!?!? YES PLEASE!!!

Star Wars and home world are great

Homeworld was so ahead of its time.

Don't forget to use resource collectors to steal enemy ships

Can't wait for more stealy-steals later on, honestly I hope you just spam them and wind up with a fleet of both stolen and built ships.

clearly the enemy has studied Captain Shack closely, and know how best to attack him

shack i found your channel because of deserts of karak and then fell in love with the space engineers keep up the good work P.S when will we see a new and improved Huggie Bear

OOH YEAH ANOTHER EPISODE ALREADY

May I suggest that along with the advice others in the comment section are giving you build more interceptors too.

That mission is such an absolute bastard.

try setting your fighters etc on agressive stance... so if you have some around the mothership etc to repair they should target enemies without you going back and forth so much

If they could turn the audio/sound track to an Audio book i would buy it

You better keep spamming out these vids because I seriously love them so much

Shack done goofed the end

I think you need more than one capture vehicle for larger ships.

Cap. If you can't micro your units please set them to aggressive so they auto engage ships. It will save you in the long run.

should have sent the marines asap to board the enemy carreirs, if they can't capture maybe they can disable which in effect takes those ships out of the fight. carreirs down no more enemy from those carriers to worry about. the marines then can do other things. otherwise can the marines be used for defensive boarding to reinforce the friendly station.

ok i know your not used to the game yet and tbh it was pretty painful watching so here some tips for this mission 1- Do not engage your fleet in formation since they all attack one target instead spreading the damage out. 2- Your marine frigate didn't capture the enemy carrier is because its was a objective target or you couldn't have one at the time. 3- it would be better to use your marine frigate to capture the enemy missile frigate and assault frigate. 4- here's an extra tips, when you trying to dock damaged squadron when enemy is nearby they will draw aggro since they are easier to hit, i have lost a couple of squadrons like that.

The marine frigate failed maybe because of the bombers. It was very close though

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you have a a habit of leaving ships on passive it seems. Thats why they don't auto engaged

I think you have the pulsar and anti-fighter corvettes mixed up

1:04 I'll never understand why do we see a mini Sajuuk ship. You can't capture those transport ships, and you can't capture a Vaygr infiltrator frigate if you already have 4 infiltration vessels (fleet maximum).

You need to build up the fleet of camera

Yeah just so you know you can capture any capital ships destroyers and frigates along with the cruisers you can but any enemy capital ships you can’t or carrier ships my bad

Yes!!!

We have problem, 20 mins of starring into the black hole

Someone let Capt know HomeWorld 2 doesn’t like resource collectors

we build some platforms if we feel it necessary then doesn't build any when shack needs them

platforms will travel with you if the ship they guard is one of yours ... ALWAYS build a few platforms ...

I want this.

in the original, moving the ms cost resources. hopefully they changed that

Dang it where are those old salvage corvettes? We seriously need to borrow their fleet.......

I really hope HM3 is expanded upon in a big way. Imagine SW:Empire at War, but Homeworld style with 3D combat, territory, shipyards to use and protect. Also, that mothership, either needs huge upgrades or be reassigned to a museum, where it should have been. There should be no logical reason to play HM3 with an outdated Mothership.

I have a career that I'd like to ste-- AW COME ON!

You need to build more interceptors next episode

I couldn't get pass this mission! Too much going on!

I can't see the video? It might be a client-side problem, though.

I've never been able to get past this mission. Like you, my infiltrators keep stopping, I think because they get attacked. I also get to a point where I mine everything and end up having zero resources to eat. After seeing your video though, I might reinstall, and try again. For the 15th or whatever time!! Ugh.

It goes to black about 10-20 seconds after this time stamp 32:01

You might need 2-3 Marine ships to take over a ship or you had the Marine ship on power to all weapons and ended up killing the crew of the ship you were trying to takeover

Wow I've never seen anyone get to the point where the shipyard would self destruct. You should have focused on destroying the infiltrator frigates instead of capturing them.

Next one already? This is awesome. Any chance we might see HW: Emergency aswell? Although it isn't a remaster of course i personaly consider it still one of the best Homeworld titles.

Jack, you're being super conservative with your money. At the start of the level, you've got like 4000 RU's. You should be pumping out combat ships non-stop at first. Then, once you get low on RU's, start saving up again (or once you've achieved space superiority in the combat zone).

Yea shack I know you already have another episode of this but I thought the same thing on this mission that I thought I could take their carriers and stop the flow their cap ships and add them to my fleet like HW1 but in here that Dosent work you can't cap carriers you can cap frigates and others too but just not carriers its dumb but still

was that lance henriksen's voice i heard in the cutscene ?

i belive in the campaine you can't cap capital ships untill the next misson. when your marine frig are done with capping in this run they have killed the crew and it will be disabled for your army to destoy it.

Might get Homeworld 2 now, then find a star wars or trek mod

How often can we expect the homeworld campaign to be? Day-by-day, weekly,...?

Man, this is the mission that I couldn't beat and I just gave up, like if the third mission is this hard, I stand no chance later. To be fair, I really only tried once or twice, but still.

Captain Elohim? wow, thats a huge demotion.

I swear to God it was painful to watch you not use the marine frigates to board the shipyard.

you need 4 to take a capital ship