Homeworld 2 | Campaign | Ep 3 

Captain, Sphere formation is the best formation for small vessels on guard duty. Also, "Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer."

Vaygr: *Builds frigate* Hiigaran Marines: *I T ' S F R E E R E A L E S T A T E.* New Vaygr Frigate Crew: (chuckles) i'm in danger.

"We're less on fire than we were 10 minutes ago." is my new favorite line.

Shack, remember to use the stances for your units. The aggressive stance increases damage while lowering defense. Defensive stance increases defense at the cost of damage. Use these to augment your fleet. A possible tactic is to send in a unit on defensive first to draw fire while others are on aggressive to take out the enemy.

Shack, the bombers with anti-subsystem bombs are nuts, they will absolutely mulch any subsystem you point them at. You can use a few squadrons of bombers to shoot off the production and weapon subsystems of enemy super capitals, rendering them pretty harmless. In general when you attack a production ship like a shipyard it is best to destroy its production facilities before killing it, to prevent it from building ships while you are whittling down its hull.

That destroyer would have been a very valuable addition to your fleet. However, I get that your losses to that point had been too high to build many marine ships to take it. I never (NEVER) used my ships in formations or mixed ship groups like you are doing. I always split them out into numbered groups and sent them in for their particular roles. Yes, it requires a little more management of the groups, but it prevents things like sending in units against the enemies designed to destroy them. Combining bombers into task groups especially is a bad idea, because it wastes their ability to take out subsystems and puts them into the middle of fuzzballs that they will never survive.

I love how fleet command issues an engagement order to the mobile refinery and instead of them reaffirming if they had good read back they just Go in? Like “Yeah this is the greatest plannnnnn”

Every time Shack says, "Launch all fighters!" I expect to hear, "Prepare for combat!" after it!

You're playing this like its star wars empire at war. Things are a bit more fragile in this

Captain, the singleplayer for Homeworld 2 doesn;t work the same way in terms of capture as it was in Homeworld 1, the Marine Frigates disable capturing any ship type that you have a max cap on, like having maxed capped frigates means you cant take any more frigates. Also Vagyr production ships like Carriers and shipyards aren't capturable, only way to get one is editing the Perist file and even then, they lose any upgrades they had when advancing to the next mission so your own stuff is basically better overall

Ion platforms don't deal that much damage but they have insane range.

Just a little tip. if you look in the bottom right when you have a unit selected you can see all the commands they can perform and the keyboard shortcuts for each one. Loving the series so far. young me could never get through this mission but I think I'll have to give it another go now.

Mothership: How many marines do you have on board? Marine Frigate: Yes.

Looks like you can build a capital ship production facility on the mothership now.

That Marine Frigate is actually captained by Bonnie Tyler who is encouraging the crew with the perfect song for such heroics, I Need A Hero.

Started playing along, and have taken your "active salvage" ways to heart, I now am the proud owner of a destroyer, one not so careful owner, but hay, if the captain wandered it into range of my mothership when I am rebuilding marine frigates, then I think it needed a new owner who would take better care of it.

Cant wait for Homeworld 3

Shack, you know that the Pride of Hiigara can have all 4 production slots, same with the Carrier can have all 3 there, yes? It's the Module Slots that you have to pick and choose. Shouldn't be limiting yourself in terms of production. I believe if you made your Capital ship slot you can make a few more Carriers.

Shack.. you are awesome!!! In my experience, if you build platforms but don't deploy them, they stack in station above the building unit and move to escort as the builder moves, so you in effect have a mobile&static defence stack. Not sure if its a glitch, or you want to use it in a limited aspect. thought I would say either way.

If the marine frigates function somewhat like the old salvage corvettes, then ordering them to move to a spot close to the target won't draw the fire that ordering them to capture unit does. So, get close first then order them to capture. This is just a theory based on old memories of the original game.

The music in this game... Nostalgia man

That marine frigate deserves medals.

A fun strategy is to park a marine frigate and some ant-fighter corvettes over an enemy carrier. The corvettes kill the fighters and the frigate captures everything that comes out of it. You can just finish the rest of the mission getting free ships. I'd recommend having an extra frigate and repair ships on standby so you can switch and repair.

1 hour video of Homeworld - respect! :D Never saw those Low Orbit b Armageddon bullets... I would capture them lol :D

Good, we are back to HW one of my favorite strategy games! Ps. You should totally name that marine frigate The Pillar of Autumn And on another note don’t keep your ships too close to enemy capital ships, like shipyards, while they explode. The explosion will damage nearby ships and destroy small ones like fighters.

Frigates, Destroyers, and Battle cruisers are best used in groups that sit and exchange blows with the enemy. Put them where you want their strength to lock down a location. Strike craft and corvettes are best used as a fast attacking swarm force. They're easy to kill, but hard to hit, and in proper quantities are the most useful force you can have. The speed upgrade for interceptors, bombes, and Corvettes are EXTREMELY good. Faster fighters last longer since they get hit less often, and since they're faster they can move where you need them WHEN you need them. If you're losing a lot of strike craft, try to change your tactics to hit and run. Send your fuzzball in to do some damage, and then pull them back to dock. As long as one member of a squad survives and docks, the rest will be replenished for free, which is the true strength of strike craft.

1:01:19 Those things have been used to destroy Kharak in Homeworld 1

"We are on fire less now than we were 10 minutes ago":- The crew of every ship in SE Commanded by Captain Shack. :)

Capitan you can probably attack the asteroids to break them apart and mine them

So just a few tips, you need to use your formations and tactics, don't use Flak frigates as front line units-they are strike craft support units at best, the torpedo frigates are best against corvettes until they get improved torpedoes, use your pulsar gunships against frigates, bombers against carrier subsystems, regular gunships against fighters and bombers-as you can obviously see all units have a direct counter pay attention to that

I feel like if he could, he would send out his bording ships all ofnthe time an shout, "raiding party!" love the videos, keep up the great work

Thanks for playing homeworld ... I love this series so much! ! More please 😁😁😁

Shack. Use the probes to look at areas you're heading into. Just remember to keep the probes far enough away so the enemy doesn't detect it. The probe's sesnor range is really huge.

@TheXPGamers 1) AI put priority targeting towards reapiur ships and marine frigates, 2) homeworld 1 and 3 use ballistic targeting, home world 2 uses hit scan, 3) 3 squads of bombers will wreck any subsystem they target use them to shut down production facilitates

Great to watch some homeworld again! Bombers are the best fighter class just get them to engage after rest of the fleet, they do need some hotkey love but are the best damage dealers on focus. Use corvette to deal with enemy fighters 😁

if your so worried about more ships being built then why dont you destroy the subsystem. i literally just heard you say " better deal with that shipyard before it spits out another destroyer" then proceeds to ignore destroying the capital ship production module that you had highlighted several times

*SPOILERS* Low orbit atmosphere deprivation weapons are exterminatus grade weponry from the first game. The taiidan used them to destroy Kharak.

"Resource minions! Bring me those RUs!" "But sir, that ship is still alive." "I don't care, those hull plates are MINE!"

I have waited for sooo long

a toast, to the brave marines who went above and beyond the call of duty today

Hey Shack, loving the new Homeworld 2 videos. Currently watching your Homeworld 1 right now and I picked up the game so i could try it out, thanks for showing me a great game! I have a suggestion for a possible future game for you. If you haven't you should try Sword of the Stars. Its a fun space game that can be punishing. Keep up the good work Captain!

Those Marines definitely deserved an Hoorah today.

To summarise Homeworld 2. Lot's of Quality of life improvements, and reduction of player's Choice. Great.

I like how you menage all the strategy like and stuff you're very smart by the way

Damn am i happy that so far from the little bit of trailer for HW 3 they seem to really pick the story up from the end of HW 2. I am so ready for the age of S'jet and what it will bring for the Hiigarans.

The game I think matches your fleet size each level so if your smart and want a an easy time you could keep your fleet small to keep the npcs spawn at minimum

You should use your interceptors to attack their bombers while gunships take down their fighters then use your gunships to support your fighters and vice versa, that should reduce your losses when fighting smaller ships.

The assault frigates totally look like the assault rifles from Halo CE

Playing HW2 in anticipation of HW3? It's going to be a long wait.

Nobody: Shack: wHy aReNt mY iOn pLaTfOrMs kIlLiNg tHeIr FiGhtErs

You should be able to steal their mothership. Afterall all is fair in war and it would make sense to be able to steal it instead of destroying it

Name the marines the Warhammers, you get why.

Another thing that you can look into doing would be to set the mobile or fineries to guard the collectors in that way all you have to manage is the collectors not both and when the collectors move on to a new patch of resources the ra mobile refineries will follow

If only you had captured that destroyer. :(

im really loving this series thx man

please more i require this series to live on

Using the formations in this game after playing/watching Empire at War is like getting high.

Im dare you to sent all of your marine frigates to capture capital ship facility because why not, you can get that big ship or just an colony

Play around with the different stance by default there on a passive stance or neutral stance which means they only fire unless they fired upon but if you put them on aggressive anything that enters their sensor range will be attacked so you won't have to be left wondering why they just sitting around not doing anyting and if you put them on the defensive stance then they won't engage unless they have to

The marine frigate carried hard

lack of fighter support sir.

I love this stuff

I've been looking forward to this.

Name that marine frigate the spear of higara, inspired by the name of your mothership

For anyone playing this now, Stance management will help alleviate the issue of ships just sitting there getting blown up

Fun Fact: "Gehenna" is also recognized as the destination for the most wicked in Hell in catholic theology.

Been waiting on this and x3 and skyrim on twitch lol

Commander shed, requesting to speak.

ok guy needs to learn to stop chaining and countermanding his own orders, give an order let the troops do ther job, you go get research facilities and research done, send them into the fight the ai seems pretty good on priorities. after giving initial orders for a fight of scouted enemy, let em do it you do something else while they have a chance to do something, anything. get other waves prepped, get repairs on the go, ctrl your resource gatherers and do repairs. have ships doc for repairs and all that, maybe get the carrier doing some taxing or something. and for crying out loud use the group select instead of area select, your confusing your troops and making them less effective, use the group select.

shipyard =\= Mothership thats the Flagship

Thank god I can watch this and not kharak for a qhile

Shipyards are not the Vagyr version of the Mothership. They are shipyards, just like yours.

Build up the carrier that way you can replace lost units in the thick of the fight

You're really severely underutilizing bombers and interceptors. Interceptors are way better for anti-fighter than gunships are. Bombers will absolutely wreck carriers if used correctly. Stances and Tactics and formations are also really important to play more with. Aggressive(F2)+Agressive(F5)+Claw formation is the best formation. Switch to sphere if you're guarding or want to overwhelm a single ship like a carrier or shipyard with concentrated fire.

Any x3 streams planned anytime soon? sad to see the streams end so abruptly, wouuld love to see more.

I remember being able to build gun and ion platforms with a carrier, and then as long as you didnt give them any commands they would stay in formation with the carrier when it moved and give it some actual firepower. Is that still a thing you can do?

I think you can capture shipyards

24:58 i think you mean Active Salvage Captain

MORE SHACK , MORE VIDEOS

U built too many torps. Pulsar gunships for the win!

i wonder if you could cap the shipyard is gave you a cap icon

you make me want to play this but i cant find homeworld 2 on gog or steam, where you get??

Anyone else think he should have tried capturing the shipyard cause hero Marine frigate

How did you get he Steam remastered to work? I just get the general failure over and over again! Done the graphics trick, it didn’t work...

are you going to play deserts of karak after this?

Yes thank you pls play more

If u use overwhelming amounts of fighters -like 700 squadrons- the enemy will be annihilated.

that first fight went awfully guess that's what happens if you go in with a small fleet tho

let's check he can't capture capital ships

Homeworld Rules! ;)

So at 1:07:29 one of your ships in the bottom left smacks and kills another one.

How do I use the mobile harvester?

First

y everything on the carrier and not the mother-ship, is ther an advantage to using the carrier for it all?

[Question] why dont you use interceptor?

is this the remaster version the formations are broken on that version...

Play the Halo mod on Homeworld 2 plz

Never clicked so fast in my life...

why cant we have a star trek game like this game

love you