----------------------------------------------------------------------------- _010. Federation Campaign ---------------------------------------- _011. "Premonitions" The goal of this mission is to build a Starbase and Dilithium mining station, and to scout the area for remaining Dominion troops. Use your Construction Ship and build yourself a Starbase, somewhere near the Dilithium Moon, but far enough away so you'll still be able to build yourself a mining station nearby (the closer the mining station to the dilithium, the faster you get your dilithium). As each gets built, make sure to hit the recrew button in their menu to get them up to full capacity. Once those are built, you'll receive a message saying that there are Dominion ships entering sensor range. A few seconds after that, you'll be attacked by them. They're nothing much at all, the Enterprise can take them on by itself if you want. Once you've taken over or destroyed all of the ships (there will be approx. 5 of them), a ship will come through a wormhole followed by 2 Borg spheres. The Premonition (as it's so amply called) has taken a real beating and has lost it's weapons and engines, and it is now your job to go rescue it. Take as many ships with you as you want to, again, the Enterprise is enough, but you should take the other ships with you just to be on the safe side. If any of your ships aren't at full crew capacity you can go back to the starbase and have it transport people over, then recrew itself. The Premonition is a very tough ship and can take a real beating, so don't worry about it being destroyed any time soon. Once you arrive at the Borg ships, if you fly directly into them you will be attacked, but if you manage to stay at your maximum weapons range away from them, you can attack them while they stay focused on the Premonition. Also, if you so choose, you can take over the Borg ships. Either way, once the Borg ships are no longer a threat, the mission will be complete. ---------------------------------------- _012. "Paradise Revisited" You're now using Worf, ambassador to the Klingon Empire, commanding the USS Avenger, a Defiant class ship. Your mission is to provide support for a Federation base in the Baku sector, under attack from the Son'a. Try to always capture the Son'a battleships that attack, as they have torpedoes as well as the standard phasers. The first thing you need to do with your base is build a construction ship, and with that a dilithium mining station over near the dilithium moon. Once that is complete you should build a Shipyard (once you have the dilithium) and then construct yourself a fleet to defend the station. Once you've done all that, all you have to do is select all your ships and hit the "Search and Destroy" button in the orders menu and the mission will end after you've wiped them out. There are only about 5 more light ships and 3 battleships left by the time your mission has changed to this anyways, so it shouldn't be too hard to win. ---------------------------------------- _013. "Vendetta" The Avenger has come under attack, and must now flee in order to stay in one piece. The journey to the first wormhole will be done automatically, but make sure you select the ship before it goes through as time is of the essence in the first part of the game. Once through the first wormhole, you want to move up and to the right through the gap in the purple nebula, past 2 moving asteroid belts, and then go straight up. There is a ship you can take over to the right past a blue and then a green nebula, but it's not worth going after right now as you'll take a lot of damage on the Avenger and the ship will most likely be destroyed. Right now you want to make your way to a red nebula with a station emitting radiation from itself. Once you go through the radiation, the pursuit on you will be broken off, so now destroy the station and stop the radiation. If you want, you can go back and get the derelict ship now in safety, then return past where the radiation was and continue to the next wormhole, with another derelict ship along the way. Don't bother sitting around letting the ships repair themselves as you won't be engaging in battle anytime soon. After you're through this wormhole, there will be another derelict ship for you to take control of. Once you have that, continue along the path, avoiding the orange nebula, and continue until you reach a derelict station and shipyard. Take control of them, and you're now in somewhat working order again. Repair and recrew your ships and station, and you'll be attack every now and then by a few birds of prey. It's best to take control of as many of these as you can, as you'll need as many ships as you can get for later on (try to engage them away from the starbase as that tends to destroy them before they can be taken over). Also, build 4 defiant class ships, as that's all you have the dilithium for anyways. Once you've done all that, take whatever forces you have and proceed to the next wormhole, fighting 3 birds of prey and getting another derelict ship along the way. Past the 3 birds of prey will be a red nebula with asteroid belts pushing whatever goes near into it, causing (pretty much) utter death to whatever enters it. To get through, keep going to the left past the red nebula and through one of the gaps in the asteroids when you're at a safe distance from it. The next wormhole is on the other side of an asteroid wall, go around it and get another derelict ship below a green nebula, then through the wormhole. Through this wormhole, just go up and to the left until you run into Toral. Attack his fleet with all you've got. Once his ship gets down to about 1/3 or so of it's shields, he'll make a dash for the wormhole. If that happens you've lost him. It won't effect the plot at all, so don't worry about it too much. Once you go through the last wormhole, the mission is complete. ---------------------------------------- _014. "Dark Omens" You're back in control of the Enterprise-E, and your first priority is to come to the aid of a Federation outpost attacked by the Borg. Have the Enterprise transport 5 crew members over to the starbase and then have that recrew itself. Once you've recrewed the ships and structures in that area, move the Enterprise over to the Dilthium moon and recrew the ships and mining station in that area. Once you've done that, you can then take the Enterprise back to a shipyard for some recrewing of it's own (or to the starbase and have that transport people over), then go around the map getting the various ships that are derelict. Your first priority should be the construction/mining ships, then the Akira and Steamrunner vessels. Each time you recrew one ship, immediately send it back to the shipyard for repairs. Around your base you should build a Research Facility and research the Chain Reaction Pulse for your Akiras as quickly as possible. Once that's complete you can start making Torpedo Turrets to protect your base, you'll need them around the dilithium moon the most. Your base will occasionally be attacked by Borg ships, which have an aversion for attacking your mining station and ships. While you're building up a fleet of Akira class ships, you should leave the Enterprise in the area of the mining operation. Once you have about 10 Akiras, you can take them, along with your other ships and the Enterprise in two squadrons, to the Borg base, which is straight down from your Starbase. Once you get there, destroy the ships first, then the weapon platforms, then go after the structures. The Borg have no dilithium reserves, so you don't have to worry about them making more ships to attack you. Once the base is destroyed, the campaign is complete. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- _020. Klingon Campaign ---------------------------------------- _021. "To the Gates of Sto'Vo'Kor" You assume the role of Chancellor Martok in his Negh'Var class warship. Having no taste for the Borg, Martok is resolute to have them wiped out. First set up your base. Once you've got all that set up, you'll want to start building up a fleet of Vor'Cha class ships, don't forget the Weapons station either, you'll want their Polaron torpedoes. After a while you will come under the attack of the Borg. Destroy them all, it won't be too hard of a task to do. However, if the Borg send a Cube at you, capture it at all costs. Those things are well worth it. Use your polaron torpedoes to disable them as much as possible, then start sending troops over from everything you've got close by. Once you take it over, repair and recrew, then get ready for the next cube. If you manage to capture 4 Cubes, you'll have sufficient means to destroy the collective in the area. You'll still need other ships of your own, but the Cubes will be well worth what it took to get them. Once you have a sizable fleet of about 12 ships, take them directly up from your base. There will be a dilithium moon there which the Borg are mining. Destroy the base defenses, then take over the dilithium station. It's rather imperative that you capture it and not destroy it, as when you capture it you will be able to see all the locations of the Borg structures. Don't be intimidated by what you see, you can take a fleet of 16 and wipe out everything easily with your cubes and Vor'chas. Also make sure to get good use out of the Ion Cannon on Martok's ship, that makes destroying structures go a lot quicker. After you've destroyed the Borg fleet and station, the mission will finish. ---------------------------------------- _022. "The Enemy Within" For this mission you just need to stay alive. As such, all you need to do is build a lot of ships, mainly Vor'chas once you can. Don't forget to make a weapons center as well. You can now build Negh'Var class ships, which are basically the same thing as Martok's ship from the last mission, only you have to research the Ion Cannon to be able to use it, and these cannot cloak. It's also worth noting that as far as I can tell, there is no actual base in this area, only a lot of ships. As such, if you get enough of a fleet, you can destroy them all, even though that won't end the mission. After a while you'll start to be attacked by Toral's ships. Destroy or take over, it doesn't matter. About 2 minutes or so after the first wave attacks you, the Avenger will show up. Pilot that right through the yellow nebula, don't worry about the 10-15 crew members you'll lose, and straight to Martok's base. Send 2-3 ships out to meet the Avenger so it's not destroyed along the way. When the Avenger gets to the station, there will be a dialogue between Worf and Martok. Once that is over put the Avenger into the repair station to get it back up to max. Once the Avenger is at max, take that and whatever ships you have left over to the marked spot on your map, which is a wormhole. All you have to do is get the Avenger to open up the wormhole and start it's entry and the mission will be completed. ---------------------------------------- _023. "A Good Day to Die" It's time to destroy Toral's base. There's a dilithium moon right above you and an infinite moon near that. Don't use the infinite moon right now though, it's being guarded by Toral's ships. There is very little strategy required for this mission, all you need to do is build up a fleet of Vor'cha and Negh'Var ships. If you want to use the wormhole to flank his base, take your Vor'chas and cloak them when they go through to avoid the disruptor platforms on the other side. Toral's base is actually quite small in comparison to what you've been up against before, so it shouldn't be too hard to take him out. When you first start mining the moon, you will probably be attacked, but don't worry, the attack is easily thwarted when the miners return from the moon and the enemy ships are attacked by whatever forces you have and your starbase. Try to capture a few of them as you are no doubt working with a small fleet at the time. Don't bother with the Birds of Prey, only go after the Vor'cha ships that are sent. Toral will occasionally send ships at you, which you can easily destroy if you keep 4 Negh'Var ships close by the base. If Toral sends any Negh'Var ships at you, try and capture them, it will save on the building costs and help you get more ships ready faster. He doesn't seem to use the wormhole very often, so you don't need to worry about your flanks being attacked, which shouldn't be a problem anyways, provided you keep your starbase near the right edge of your borders and put up a torpedo turret or two (or a few ships) next to the shipyard. You have the entire lower half of the map to use to build your base up with, and the lower left corner is easily the safest place to put your research facilities. When you do attack him though, you can do it in 2-3 waves of attack. In the first wave, make sure to take out the disruptor platforms first, then go after his ships, staying away from the starbase for now. Once that is complete, go back and repair/recrew. On wave 2, you want to start going after his building structures, such as the shipyards. Take out his station first though, that's going to use up quite a few ships to destroy. After the station is destroyed, if you have more than 6 ships left, you can continue to attack his base. Otherwise return to your base and repair/recrew. For your third wave of attack, all you need to do is finish clearing out the rest of his structures, and any ships that may still be remaining. Once the base is cleared out, you will complete the mission. ---------------------------------------- _024. "Grey Eminence" Unlike the previous missions where you could sit idle and let a small army build inside your base, this mission requires you to act quickly and advance on the Romulans. Things to note that are to the left of your base is another dilithium moon, which you will need since the one you start near will get used up very quickly. Also, down the middle of the map is an asteroid wall, with only 2 openings. One is near the exact center of the map, the other is near the bottom of the map, which is also where one of the Romulan bases is. For your build plan, it is a good idea to build the required buildings first, the Shipyard, Weapons Center, and Imperial Shipyard. Don't bother with the other structures, such as the Shockwave station and Gre'thor Armory, as those are not worth the time and dilithium needed to use them. Instead, focus on building Vor'cha and Negh'Var class ships, those will be able to take on the Romulans easily. To take out the first base directly below you, you'll need to send about 8 ships down, recommended 7 Vor'cha's as well as Martok's ship. Cloak them and go down through the barrier of sensor arrays, torpedo turrets, and disruptor turrets. If there are other ships in the area, you'll need to take those out first, but you don't want to use your invading force. 5 Negh'Vars should be enough to handle interference. Once your invading force is through the barrier, get away from them and open fire on the space station. Use the Ion Cannon on Martok's ship, and then after that just keep on the assault. If the station targets Martok's ship, have it pull away until the station targets something else, then move back in. You'll probably lose 3 to 4 ships in the attack, but don't worry about it. Once the station is destroyed, recloak if possible, then go back and repair the surviving ships. Once you rebuild your fleet up to about 12 ships, bring them all down and start taking out the turrets, using Negh'Var Ion Cannons if possible. After those are gone, take out the shipyard that is in the same area as the station was, and then let your ships take out whatever may be left of the base. Return then to your base and repair/recrew. After the Romulan base is destroyed, start seriously working on an invasion force to take the rest of them out. You'll need about 20-24 ships, composed mostly of Negh'Vars. Don't forget to leave a compliment of ships to guard your second dilithium moon away from the base, 8 Vor'chas should be enough to keep it safe. Once your fleet is complete, head back down with it in 3 squads to where the Romulan base was. Go through the hole in the asteroid wall and with your ships start moving your way upwards, destroying any structures along the way, which is mainly just a dilithium station and a few base structures, no stations. The main Romulan base is in the upper left corner of the map. Once you're there, you should make your way through as slowly as possible. If the station starts firing at you, let loose with all of your Ion Cannons and that should destroy it. If you've still got 16 ships left, you can just let them pick their own targets, but make sure they go after the weapons platforms, shipyard, and other ships first. After the base has been decimated, the campaign will come to completion. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- _030. Romulan Campaign ---------------------------------------- _031. "Cloak and Dagger" Your first mission as Admiral Sela is to sneak a Tal Shiar spy into a Klingon prison. First you need to build a Covert Ops facility and research the spy for your Shrike class vessels. Once you've done that, cloak a Shrike class ship and navigate it around the nebulas and asteroids to the prison, which is directly up from your base on the map. Once you're there use the spy on the prison while still cloaked and you will then be told to wait 10 minutes while the spy disarms the base defenses. Use this time to build as many Warbird and Griffon class ships as you can. When you have a sufficient fleet of 12-16, cloak and move them up into the base, keeping their cloaks on. Keep building ships though, you'll need them at a later time. When the 10 minutes are up, the spy will tell you to capture the prison. Uncloak your vessels and start attacking it. After a few seconds of attack, a prison ship will leave the base and you'll then be ordered to capture that, as it now has the doctor you're trying to rescue on it. You have plenty of time to capture the vessel, for now start taking out the ships that are shooting at you, those are the first priority. Once you've disabled them, take whatever ships you have left and catch up with the prison ship (unless you've been keeping near it) and attack it until its shields go down, then transport men over to the vessel from every ship left, so you can take it over. Once you have it, escort it back to your base. Once the prison ship has returned to your base, you'll be given your final mission, which is to destroy the entire Klingon prison outpost. Repair/ recrew your vessels, all the while building as many Warbirds as you can, and once your fleet is complete (16-28 will be more than enough), take them up to the Klingon base and destroy it. After the base has been destroyed, the mission will end. ---------------------------------------- _032. "A Call to Power" There has been a discovery of the Omega particle, an item that is deemed by the Borg to be near perfection. As such, it's imperative that Sela capture the particle for the Romulans. The only thing in her way though is that the Ferengi have already laid claim to it and are selling it to the Cardassians. Because of this you will need to stop the transaction from taking place, and capture it for yourself from their defenses. To start the mission out, build your standard structures so you can use Warbird class ships and have their Inverse shield beam. While this is going on though, build as many Torpedo Turrets around your base as you can, at least 10 of them. These will defend your base from the constant attacks of both the Ferengi and Cardassians and are well worth the expense. Once you have your turrets in place, you can stop worrying about your base defenses and concentrate on an army to get the particle. After a while, the Ferengi will send a ship to your base with an offer that if you send them 2 full dilithium freighters to a place of their choosing, they will withdraw from the battle. If you want to do this you can, and they will no longer attack you. If you've built up 8 warbirds by this point, it may be easier to have them destroy the Ferengi outpost and be done with them. You should also take a fleet of 8 ships and, under cloak, guide them to the particle. When your Warbirds reach the particle, you should notice that it is guarded by Ferengi turrets and a shipyard. Use your Warbirds to destroy the skeleton base and, if you've already taken the other Ferengi base out of the battle, you won't have to worry about the Ferengi anymore. You can then either leave the warbirds there to guard the particle or send them back to the base for repairs, it's your choice. If you capture the Ferengi or Cardassian shipyard, you will not be able to produce their vessels. Instead you will be able to make Dominion Warships if you capture the Ferengi ones, and nothing at all if you capture the Cardassian ones. The reason for this is because the structure used is classified as Dominion, and when you capture one it reverts back. Shortly after the Ferengi peace negotiations, a container ship will be sent to your base. Put this in the most protected part of your base until you're ready to go after the particle, as it will constantly be the target of attack from both the Ferengi and especially the Cardassians. Every now and then the Cardassians will send a container vessel of their own to try and capture the particle. Destroy as soon as you can, if they manage to capture the particle, you will fail in your mission. Once the Ferengi have been routed and the Cardassians put back, take a fleet of 8-16 Warbirds and escort your container vessel to the particle. The safest way to go is actually through where the Ferengi base was, so take that path and you'll be able to avoid the ships the Cardassians send intermittently completely. When you reach the particle, use the tractor beam on the container vessel to lock on to it, then escort it back to your base to complete the mission. ---------------------------------------- _033. "Gauntlet" Now that you have the Omega particle, you will need to get it to safety, and to do that you must rondezvous with 3 ships. Getting to them won't be easy though, as you have the Borg chasing you and the Klingons have bases set up throughout the area. To start, you may want to set up the squads for this level so that the shadow class vessels are paired with the containment vessel, and the rest of your ships are another squad. This will allow you to easily access the special weapons of all your ships. Every two minutes the Borg will send a vessel at you, starting with the smaller spheres and assimilators, and continuing on to cubes. When you start out, just simply follow the path until the first fork appears and you can see 4 dilithium moons and a Klingon mining facility. It's almost impossible to capture this as once the shields on it go down it is destroyed in just about 1 hit from any weapon. If you want to try you can, but you'll also need to capture the freighters, which will put a bit of a strain on the number of crew members your ships have. Once past that, you'll run into a group of a few Klingon ships, which are easily destroyed and then when you get back to the regular path you'll see sensor arrays. These aren't weapons stations, so it doesn't matter if you destroy them or not. Further along the path, you'll run into a Klingon weapons facility, don't bother with it, there are 4 others set up throughout the map and none are worth destroying or capturing. Further along is a Klingon shipyard, composed of 2 regular shipyards and an imperial shipyard. Destroy the 2 regular ones, or capture them and decommission them for the dilithium, but capture the imperial one, you can use it to repair and recrew, as well as make yourself a Negh'var class ship with the dilithium you start out with. I wouldn't recommend making more than one, even if you have the dilithium moons, for reasons that will become apparent shortly. About this time, the Borg will start sending cubes at you one at a time. Capture them. Use your shield inversion beams on the warbirds to drain their shields and the psychonic beam on the shadow class vessels to whittle the crew down to about 100 or so. From then on start transporting troops over from every ship you've got and once the cube is yours, send them to the repair station you've captured. You want to repeat this process twice, so that you've got a compliment of 2 Borg cubes in your arsenal. From here on out you can simply destroy the cubes the Borg send at you, as you probably won't have enough crew members to capture and recrew a third. With your fleet reinforced, continue on the path to a black hole with several Klingon ships waiting for you. Simply destroy them and watch the Klingon ships get sent into the black hole, as they're no match at all for your fleet. Continue upwards and you'll arrive at a series of wormholes. Now, there is a pattern to the way the wormholes work, and it has something to do with the asteroid belts rotating nearby, but in reality, using the wormholes aren't worth it as you'll wind up spending 5-10 minutes just going from one to another trying to get to the right. Instead just go through the nebula up and to the right. You'll take damage on all your ships going through, so don't send too many at once or they'll clutter each other up. You shouldn't lose any if they're all at full strength. Once you're at the wormhole that has a circle around it on the map (the wormhole to the right, not the one near the asteroid belts) you're basically through the gauntlet. There is a Klingon base to the right, but it's easier to just ignore it and make a bee-line straight for the Romulan vessels waiting for you, sending Sela's warbird and the containment vessel ahead, while the rest of your fleet destroys the Klingons in the way. when you reach the vessels waiting for you, you'll complete the mission. ---------------------------------------- _034. "Unholy Alliances" Unlike the other three missions, this one has a fairly straightforward goal. You are now allied with the Borg, and are using them to help you destroy a Klingon base in the area. There will be several conversations throughout the mission between Sela and the Klingons, mostly just banter and curses towards each other. To begin things, there are two dilithium moons you can use, one slightly above where you start and the other to the right, near the Borg base. Once you have your base camp set up, build as many torpedo turrets as you can for defense against the Klingons, so that you'll be able to build up a fleet of warbirds to destroy their base. Make sure you research the shield inversion beam, that is going to be your strongest asset in this mission. When you've got a fleet of 8 ready, that will suffice to destroy the Klingon outer defenses. Slowly move up the map, taking out the structures as you go along. Once you reach the base you want to avoid the starbase for now and just concentrate on the outer structures, such as the shipyards. When those are gone, move to the right and destroy the dilithium mining station and shipyard there, then let your warbirds rest for a while as you build another fleet of 8. Throughout the mission, the Klingon's will send Shockwave vessels at the Borg, 3 at a time, every half hour or so from the first squad. Now, if you want to be a good ally, you could stop those ships before they destroy the Borg, but if you've kept up good defenses for your base and have a large enough fleet (even if it's not complete), then you don't need to worry about anything happening to the Borg. Just be forewarned, if the Borg base is destroyed, you will fail the mission and have to start over (or reload a save). Once you've got 2 squads of ships ready, take your first and destroy the rest of the Klingon base, going after the starbase with your shield inversion beams first, as that is more deadly than the torpedo turrets. Once the starbase is gone, start taking out the torpedo turrets, then disruptor turrets, then move on to the rest of the structures, starting with shipyards and working your way through everything. When the base is destroyed, you'll be shown a conversation between Sela and the Borg, and you will then be attacking the Borg. Move all of your squadrons to the Borg base and start systematically taking out the base, starting with the Nexus and moving to the cubes and other vessels, then moving on to their assembly matrices and the whole rest of the base. If you let the Borg be attacked by the shockwaves earlier, then you should have an easy go of it. After the Borg base is decimated, you will complete the Romulan campaign. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- _040. Borg Campaign ---------------------------------------- _041. "Resurrection" You start the Borg campaign on a mission to capture a Dominion cloning facility in the area. First set up your main base up so you can make cubes, but don't worry if you're short on crew for the moment, just put 5 in the queue. When that's done, make some defenses for your base, the Jem'Hadar will attack, but it won't be anything too extreme. There is an outpost base directly below where you start, about halfway down the map, consisting of a Dominion shipyard and a dilithium mining station. These are easy enough to capture if you've got 3 or more cubes. If you decide to capture the shipyard, it's a good idea to start making some warships as they're equivalent to cubes in power, but don't require as much in the way of crew. There is another outpost to the right on the map, near the corner of it. Capture that as well if you want, but if you captured the other, it's not necessary. Once you've established a foothold on the map and have a fleet of 5 or more cubes along with any Jem'Hadar warships you've got, send them to the lower right corner of the map and systematically take out the base while avoiding the cloning facility at the same time. That you're going to want to capture, but you want most everything else gone by the time you try so it isn't destroyed as soon as you capture it. Once the facility is yours, it will start cloning Locutus. After he's cloned, you'll be told to send a cube to the facility to be his transportation. It doesn't matter whether you send a cube that's all but destroyed or one in perfect condition, just get one to him. When you do, that cube will become the Locutus Cube. All that remains of the mission after you've done this is to destroy what's left of the Dominion forces, if any. Once they're gone, the mission will end. ---------------------------------------- _042. "Assimilation" Now that Locutus has been resurrected, it is time for the Borg to start their next campaign against the Alpha quadrant. For this mission, you must capture the Romulan base, and assimilate as much of the map as is possible. As you have learned in the past, the Romulans will not sit idle, and will build up fleets of 5 or more ships to attack you with at a constant rate. Because of this, you will need to move quickly in the first leg of the mission. To start things out, ignore all notions to travel around and assimilate the various Federation, Breen, Klingon, Ferengi and Dominion troops throughout the main area of the map. You have one goal for the first part of this mission, and that is to destroy and assimilate the Romulan base on the other side of the wormhole nearby. Take every ship you have with you and go down and to the left from where you start out and you'll reach a group of nebulas. The wormhole is within these. Go through and immediately head to the right, don't worry about the disruptor turrets for now. Use Locutus' Holding Beam to take over the dilithium mining station from the Romulans as well as the freighter. Use your other ships to defend the attacks, while you still use Locutus to capture any ships (preferably Warbirds) that you can and recrew those by transporting to them from the mining station, and recrewing that from your drone pool. Once you've secured the dilithium station, build a Nexus as close to it as possible for defense, and to start a small base. Once you have that, build a shipyard somewhere near the asteroid belt where it can be safe and use that to repair the ships you assimilate from the Romulans. After you've gathered a fleet of 5 or so Warbirds, take them and Locutus to the Romulan shipyard nearby and have Locutus capture that while the rest of your ships defend him from any interference from the Romulans. With that captured, you'll now have a foothold on the Romulans, and should build up a fleet of 7 warbirds and Locutus to take over the rest of the base. First head after the shipyards, assimilating the advanced shipyard, and destroying the others, as they're not worth capturing. You should also assimilate the covert ops facility and tal shiar station for the special weapons they provide, and the dilithium station. Destroy the platforms and concentrate on capturing the space station. Be careful when doing this as it will explode quickly after losing shields if you're not careful. The easiest way to do it is to highlight your ships once they've opened fire on it and then click the transport button, then hover over the station and as soon as it becomes available, start transporting troops over. It is very important that you do not let any ships escape through the wormhole. If you do, then that will cause the mission to become unwinnable, as the Romulans will vanish from the map on the other side of the wormhole for some reason. It's best to leave easily taken over structures, such as a mining station or shipyard (but not both or they'll start building ships again) alive, so that if any ships do get through the wormhole and get away, you'll be able to take over the facility and get an instant viewing of where the ships are at that moment. All that is required to complete this mission is to destroy all Romulans and take over the base. Now that the Romulan base is taken over, if any ships are left outside the wormhole, you can concentrate on building up a fleet of 8 or so Warbirds to destroy any remaining Romulans left on the map. You don't really need more than that, but if you want to build more, that's fine. With that fleet, cloak and go through the wormhole, parking the ships away from the nebula cluster so that when you're ready you can send them around the map without accidental decloaks. When you get near other vessels or structures not Romulan, Locutus will inform you of it, so you can assimilate them. Be forewarned though that you are a mutual enemy of everything on this map, and if you run into a conflict between the Federation and Breen, or Klingons and Breen, or whatever, they will abandon their hostilities towards each other in favor of ganging up on your ships. This shouldn't be too much of a problem though, as you should only have to worry about 1 or 2 Romulan ships which you can go gung-ho at. Bases to take note of are that there is a Klingon outpost in the upper right corner of the map, a Dominion shipyard below that near the middle of the right side of the map, and several Federation stations throughout the middle of the map as well as Federation ships around the nebulas scattered around the map. ---------------------------------------- _043. "Extermination" The objectives of this mission are simple, build a Transwarp Gate and destroy Species 9341. To start, you are given 5000 dilithium to build a base. First use both of your construction vessels to create 2 Nexus', both relatively close to each other. When they're complete, build a Processing Node near the moon, and then have each Nexus build a dilithium harvester, once the funds become available. After that you should build an Assembly Matrix and then as many Torpedo Turrets as possible. Having at least 10 should suffice to protect your base. Just remember that you'll need to build up a base to a Transwarp Gate, so don't clutter all around your base with turrets. They're mainly needed in the front of your base, under and near the Nexus'. Also, once you have enough platforms to defend your base, move all of your ships into the center of it and put them on yellow alert so as to keep them safe. As soon as you build a Nexus, Species 9341 will start attacking you in waves that start out with about 3-4 ships, and then a few minutes later will come at you with waves of 8-10. Something to note about Species 9341 is that they do not fire weapons to lower your shields and their systems. Instead they fire beams which directly attack the crew. Because of this, you will need to recrew ships and structures constantly. The species will primarily attack the Nexus' unless another vessel is in their way, but they will still proceed towards a Nexus. Something else worth noting about this species is that your unmanned defense weapons, ie the Disruptor and Torpedo turrets, are invulnerable against them because their attacks will only target crew, making the platforms a valuable necessity for this mission. Once your base is well defended, start building up to your Transwarp Gate, as well as building several cubes. You will only need a total of 4 cubes, one of which can be Locutus' Cube. If your moon runs out of dilithium, there is another nearby, slightly to the right and below your base. Don't bother building another processing node there, just assign a cube to guard the harvester. After a while, the constant attacks on your base will cease, somewhere around the time you get your Transwarp Gate built. When this happens, take your cubes and any other vessels you have in commission, and go around the map looking for the Mother Entity creatures. They're scattered throughout the map near the dilithium moons. Once you have your Transwarp Gate built and Species 9341 has been destroyed, the mission will be completed. ---------------------------------------- _044. "The Twilight Hour" Your mission is to destroy the Federation so that Earth can be assimilated. To start things out, there are dilithium moons in the lower left corner of the map as well as the lower right corner of the map, both protected partly by yellow nebulas and asteroids, which make them good places to build a base. You should build 2 Nexus', as you did in the previous mission, you will need the crew from both of them. Also, try to space your buildings out a bit, the Federation will use a weapon that is most effective against objects close together. Don't bother building torpedo turrets, they're going to be completely ineffective against the Sovereign class Corbomite Reflectors. The Federation will attack you constantly, usually with 1 or 2 Sovereign ships and a couple smaller vessels, such as Akira or Defiant vessels. After a while they will start sending 5-7 Akira vessels at once. Always use Locutus' ship to capture the Sovereigns whenever possible, the assimilator beam will go through the corbomite reflector, which is the safest and most effective way to fight the Sovereigns. Once your other cubes can use the assimilator beam as well, make sure to have them use that along with Locutus' to make things easier. Along with the constant waves of attacks, the Federation will also use their Temporal Stasis weapon, which will cause all of your ships and structures that are caught by it to stop whatever they're doing, including recrewing, repairing and building. It will usually be targeted on your largest cluster of vessels, or, early on in the mission, your Nexus. The only way to dampen the effect this has on your base is to spread out your ships and structures. Once you've captured and repaired 8 Sovereign class ships and built yourself 5 Cubes, you're ready to take on the Federation. Their base consists of about half the map, but most of that is just defense platforms, which are easily destroyed with the firepower you're taking with you. The main points of concern are in three places: 1 - The upper left corner of the map, 2 - The upper right corner of the map, and 3 - The upper middle area of the map. These 3 locations are where their main structures are. The upper middle area is where the core of their defense is, and should be taken on last. That's where the Enterprise, Premonition and Avenger are, along with several other ships and a Starbase. You can destroy or capture the Premonition, but you won't be able to with the Enterprise or Avenger. The Avenger must be destroyed, and the Enterprise will leave the battlefield through a time portal when it gets near destruction, or a certain amount of time has passed. If you do manage to capture the Premonition, you'll be able to use it's Temporal Stasis Field, which is the same as the one the Federation has been using against you the entire mission. Use it directly on the large starbase labeled Starfleet Command once you can, doing so will greatly help you destroy it. It's worth capturing a Federation shipyard when you're on your attack, with that you'll be able to repair and recrew your ships without having to return back to your main base. If you capture the advanced shipyard and want to, you can make yourself more Sovereign class vessels, but they won't be needed if you still have 7-8, which shouldn't be a problem. When all that's left of the Federation is nothing but the middle area where the core is, send everything you've got at it and destroy them. Once all is gone, the campaign will come to conclusion. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- _050. Omega ---------------------------------------- _051. "Once and Again" After the Borg assimilated ambassador Spock's transport to the Klingon/ Romulan peace negotiations, starfleet was all but destroyed. Because of this, Captain Picard went through a time portal in order to escort the ambassador personally, in hopes to help it reach the Romulan starbase safely. This mission is pretty much straightforward, simply guide the fleet through the course to reach the Romulan starbase safely. Ambassador Spock is on the Galaxy class vessel, which is basically the same as a Sovereign class vessel, only it has 600 crew members rather than the standard 400, and it does not have the ability to use the Corbomite Reflector. While guiding ambassador Spock through the gauntlet path, the Borg will attack in 2 ways. They will have ships waiting inside the blue nebulas, in which case it would be best to start firing at them before they leave those, if you can't, don't worry, the ships hidden in those aren't that much of a threat for the most part. They will also open up transwarp conduits. These are easily gotten through, just post all of your ships around them when they open and make sure you're at red alert, most of the time the vessel coming through will be destroyed before it is completely through. The only thing you really need to watch out for is the Borg cube. It will always target the Galaxy class ship with Spock on it. If Spock's ship's crew goes yellow, start transporting crew members over to it immediately. The best way to take care of the cube is to use the Nebula class ship's Shield Disruptor and open fire on it with everything you've got, ignoring all the other Borg attacking you. Once you're past that, you're pretty much in the clear. There will be a couple more ships on your path, but if you make straight for the base you shouldn't have any trouble reaching it. Once you arrive at the Romulan base, you'll be given one more mission, to get rid of any remaining Borg in the area. Put the Galaxy class ship next to the Romulan base and leave it there, along with the other Romulan vessels in the area. Build a construction ship and then a shipyard to repair/recrew your vessels, and when that's all done, set the original fleet you started with out to the upper right corner of the map to recover 6 Romulan vessels inside the red nebula and asteroid belt area. Do not go through any of the transwarp conduits that appear, they are instant death for any vessel that does, including the Enterprise. If you send a cloaked vessel through the transwarp conduit, it will hang the game and you will have to quit and restart. If the Borg send a cube at you while your main fleet is away, use the Warbird Shield Inversion Beams and then go at the cube with all you've got. It will still target the Galaxy class ship, so leave that near the starbase and keep transporting crew over to it. You can also leave a Nebula class ship with the base to use it's shield disruptor on any Borg that come through the conduit. To finish the mission, send your fleet around the map, eliminating any Borg they come across. Once you've done that, the mission will be completed. ---------------------------------------- _052. "A Line in the Sand" You're back at the point in time where the Enterprise went back in time, when the Borg launched their assault on the Federation, and you're also now in control of the base above Earth. Everything is in the same place it was during the Borg mission, so you should be somewhat familiar with the layout. To start things out, you should build another advanced shipyard near Starfleet Command, and start making Sovereign ships from both shipyards. The research facilities are all built, but none of them have any research done, so you need to do those. For now, all you need to do is to keep the starbase intact, which is done by having as many ships as you can out for defense. You should have a few Nebula class vessels built, so you can use their shield disruptors against the cubes that get sent at you. After a while, the collective will send about 6 or so cubes your way, each approaching from a different direction. Use whatever Sovereigns and Nebulas you have to destroy them, and don't forget that both the Premonition and the Temporal Research center can use the Time Stasis Field, in case you start to get into a bad situation. Not long after that attack, the Enterprise will show up with reinforcements. It's best to split the Klingons and Romulans into separate groups so you can make full use of their weaponry. With those vessels and a squad of 7 Sovereign and 1 Nebula, take them all down to the lower right corner of the map to start systematically wiping out the Borg. Don't forget about the Fek'lhr and Shadow special weapons to go with the Nebula. It's also a good idea to use a time stasis on the Nexus' you'll run across. At this point, the Borg are almost out of resources, so once you destroy their ships, you shouldn't have to worry about too many more coming at you. Eventually you'll run into Locutus' cube. As soon as that gets close to being destroyed, it will go through a transwarp conduit. When that happens, you know you're getting close to completion. Just continue moving across the base until the whole thing is destroyed and the mission will conclude. ---------------------------------------- _053. "The Alpha and The Omega Pt. I" Your main objective is to capture the Borg Transwarp Gate inside their base without destroying it. To do this you'll have the full power of the Klingon, Romulan, and Federation forces, each with their own construction ship. There are 3 dilithium moons near your starting position, it's recommended that you start out by making mining stations near all three, and then building a starbase for each of the races, starting with the Romulans, then Klingon, and then Federation. The reason for this order is because in terms of fighting capability, the Romulan Warbirds are the strongest with their Shield Inversion beams, followed by the Negh'Var Ion Cannons. You may want to put all 3 of the starbases next to each other for added defensive capabilities, but it's not necessary. Although it's not specifically stated in the mission objectives, none of your special vessels can be destroyed. This includes the Enterprise, the Avenger, Martok's Negh'Var and Sela's Warbird. Unlike previous missions, you are not required to build a starbase in order to have all of your other structures built. You should still build one of each though, both for the defensive capabilities and the crew increments. The Borg will send ships at you, starting with simple spheres and assimilators, which will eventually turn into a group of 3 cubes and 2 diamonds per wave. It is imperative that you take out the diamonds as fast as you can, they have an attack that will completely drain the shields out of just about any vessel on your side, and can destroy the weaker vessels. Because of this, you should always keep the Avenger as far from the battle as possible. Once you have a fleet of 8 Warbirds built up, you're ready to take out the lower Borg base. If you want, you can use a shrike vessel to see the entire base, but for now you just need to know that the base you're going after is in the middle of the map. Cloak the Warbirds before they set out, as the Borg do not research the tachyon grid. Along the way will be a few satellite outposts, consisting of a detection grid and a few energy cannons, those are nothing to worry about and can even be ignored if you so choose. Once you're at the Borg base, you should target any diamonds and cubes that may be built, or you can wait for those to leave and let your main base deal with them, it doesn't matter. Your first targets should be the Advanced Assembly Matrices, followed by the Nexus. Once those are gone, target the platforms and then whatever. You may need to bring in a reinforcement squad if you took on the diamonds and cubes, since they probably obliterated most of your shields. Once that's done, you no longer have to worry about Borg attacks, so build up a fleet of 8 Negh'Vars, 16 Warbirds, and as many Sovereigns as you want. You may also want to take this time to build a Temporal Research Facility to supplement your base. Once you've done all this, put your fleet on yellow alert and send all of it to the top middle area on the map and destroy the entire Borg base, without attacking the Transwarp Gate. When the Gate is the only thing left, you may want to start fortifying it, but with the fleet of the size you have, it won't really be necessary. Once you've done all that, let your fleet recharge its special weapons, then use the Romulan shield inversion beams to lower the shields on the Gate and start transporting troops over. When you capture it you'll be given a new objective, to keep it alive for 10 minutes. Place all of your ships around the Gate to protect it and then wait for the Borg to get close and start letting loose on them. With the Borg facilities destroyed, they won't be able to use their special weapons, making defending the Gate easy. ---------------------------------------- _054. "The Alpha and The Omega Pt. II" Your first mission is to protect the Enterprise. Do so by turning on it's Corbomite Reflector. You won't have to do this for long though, shortly after the mission starts you'll be told to return to the Transwarp Gate before it's destroyed. Do so and there will be a cinematic. Your mission is to now use the ships available to you in order to capture a Borg construction vessel, so that the Enterprise may return to Borg space. There are two that you can choose from to capture, but the one in the lower left corner of the map will be easier to capture as it's further from the main Borg space area and in a more strategic location for later on. Once you've captured it, have it build a Transwarp Gate someplace safe. You can engage with the Borg vessels close by, including the energy cannons, but nothing else. The Transwarp Gate will be able to be constructed without any hindrance from the Borg. Once it is completed, there will be another cinematic. Now, you need to build a base as quickly as possible. All you need to build is one type of fleet, Klingon, Romulan, or Federation. You won't have the time or dilithium to make more than one. Whichever way you decide, you should also build several Torpedo Turrets at the entrances to your base, one near the blue nebula gap next to the dilithium moon, and another which is more obvious, where the energy cannons were at the start of the mission. Shortly after you're given the assignment, there will be another cinematic and you'll be told to take out the Nexus' in the area as well. Don't attack those just yet. Instead, continue concentrating on building as many vessels and base defenses as you can. Eventually, the Borg will notice you and begin sending waves of cubes at you. Hopefully you've got at least 8 Warbird/Sovereign/Negh'Var ships at this point and can use them to take down the cube shields and capture them. If you can, try to capture all of the cubes that come your way, they'll come in very handy when you decide to launch an offensive attack. Once you've captured enough cubes and feel you're ready to start an offensive, you should move your fleet up. You'll need to have 10-16 ships in order to take out the base closest to you, and if you chose the lower left corner, you should be able to advance up relatively far on the screen, hopefully able to reach the infinite dilithium moon about 2/3 of the way up the map on the left side. You should wait until you have a spare 5000 dilithium to do this though, as you'll need to build another starbase, a mining station, a shipyard of any type to repair vessels, and about 10 torpedo turrets for defense. After you've successfully captured the moon, start having all of your freighters go to that one since your old moon has probably run dry. Now that you've established a secondary base and have an infinite supply of dilithium, it's time to start going on more of an offensive. Build up a fleet of at least 16 Sovereign, Negh'Var and/or Warbirds, and try to capture at least 8 Cubes. Once you have that, you should start building up to the Federation Temporal Research Center, it will be coming in very handy soon. When you have all of this ready, send 16 of your vessels over to the lower part of the middle of the map, there is another base there for you to take out. Always go after the cubes first, you probably won't need to capture any more so just destroy them. When you've destroyed that base, you should go up to the upper middle area. You'll run into Locutus and a Transwarp Gate there, so use your temporal stasis field to destroy both for another cinematic. If you caught Locutus in the temporal stasis field, you'll have to sit around and wait for it to run out before you'll be able to be in control again. Also note that there is another infinite dilithium moon in this area. Now that that's out of the way, you should make your way to the right of the map, there is a base in the right middle, which you should systematically take out, starting with the technology node so the Borg can no longer use their assimilation weapons on you. There will also be a skeleton base in the other corner from where you decided to make your base, which you can either take out or leave for the Shrike vessel to use it's spy on and show you all the Borg movements. With that base out of the way, there should only be one more for you to worry about. Repair your vessels if you haven't been all along, and then move them to the upper right corner of the map. You can send a secondary fleet via the Transwarp Gate you control to the back of the base, so as to separate the Borg defenses. You may also want to use the temporal stasis on the remaining cubes in the base to keep from taking massive damage from them. There is also an infinite dilithium moon in the upper right corner of this base as well. Once you destroy both Nexus', there will be a new objective for you to launch a direct assault on the Omega containment facility. Before you do this, you should repair all of your remaining vessels and let the time stasis charge, you will need that. Once that's all done, open a Transwarp Conduit inside the large asteroid belt, which you should be able to see if you used a Shrike spy earlier. When you send ships through it, use the temporal stasis field directly on the Omega facility to keep from taking damage from the 4 Nexus' and the energy/torpedo platforms in the area. Concentrate all fire on the facility and destroy it to end the campaign, and the game. Congratulations, you have beaten Star Trek: Armada!