Salvaging swarmers is not a big deal, just wait to blow any mushrom ship and they will get shocked for 30 secs or so, time enought to retrive them. The tricky thing is to salvage Turanic fighters and corvettes... I tryed many times and I just got a fighter and 2 missile corvettes.
I remember one mission where I had 100+ ion frigates... and the game couldn't finish this mission: it tried to get ships into formation for the jump and they wouldn't fit on the map.
May i ask what version of windows everyone is running Homeworld in? Cause Ive tried every compatibility mode on 2 computers and the game still crashes at start.
@Schoppaul I've managed to run HW (at least Cataclysm, but if I recall correctly, HW1 also worked) on a W7 x64 computer. The only thing was I had to run it in software mode after patching it, else it would crash to desktop (not a problem running it at max resolution, since I was throwing an i7 860 at it... hehe).
You might also get away with a VM that lets the guest OS access the 3D hardware (not sure if XP Mode works), that way you might run it with a standard XP install with 3D acceleration.
@maiaadriano Thanks. What i eventually did was buy another HW disk, install it, patch it up to the current version, then i used the german.exe that everyone talks about. And im using Windows 7x64 as well.
In my view, the devs RUINED the game by changing the newer versions of HW so there is a limit on the number of ships you can captured. Capturing ships big and small was a pure JOY in HW. Its a single player aspect of the game. WHO CARES if we had a thousand ion frigates? As I result I never paid for any of the newer versions when I realized that I could no longer do what I loved best, which was capturing ships. Sometimes developers forget that a game is meant to be FUN, balance be damned
haha i did that too... salvaged almost every ion canon fregate of the (i called it) tooth brush station mission. God that took ages... In Kadesh Salvaged every multibeam fregate. Selvaged almost every Ship from Destroyers upwards. Selvaging was so inbalanced in HW1 ^^ but it was fun.
I loved this game so much, i was actually having dreams about capturing more frigates with my salvage corvettes from that big sphere surrounding the hyperspace inhibitor. Back in 1999 this game was truly a masterpiece !
I once managed to harvest almost the entire sphere of Taidan beam frigates from that mission, but I did capture all of the larger ships and most of the fighters and resource collectors in that mission. When you attacked the three gates, new warships would appear, and my capture corvettes would be waiting to snag them. However, I had so many they proved useless against the Taidan emperor as they maneuvered around. And I captured both type 1 & 2 swarmers and their fuel ships
You know, I had a really big fleet too, not as big but something like yours, and it was great, but it also was anoying everytime you started a mission some of the ships took a long time to get there when they attacked you right away.
And also there was a point where I couldn't salvage more ships, the corvetes would just stand there without delivering the enemy ship. I also tried to capture the mothership at the gardens of kharak(??), but I reached the limit of salvage corvettes...
I was crazy about homeworld 1. I must have finished it sooo many times. I was a maniac about capturing enemy ships with my salvage corvettes, I remember capping every single one of the Kadeshi refuelling ships and even a few of their "gas tank empty" fighters!!
At the junkyard dog battle, my fleet was sooo freaking large, I couldnt teleport! LOL.
Those were the days!! I loved this game. This frap brought back so many memories. THANKS!
Im at the HiperSpace Inhibitor Mission; 107 Ion frigates, 32 assault frig., 8 destroyers, 4 missile destroyers, like 30 swarmes, 1 minelaying corv (T), 5 Heavy corv.(T), 5 multiG corv.(T), arround 12 support frigates, 3 Battle cruisers...
And soon 4 more destroyers, 1 more carrier and another battleC... plus all 9 ion array frigates (love the desing) and like 17 multibeam frig´s... and more crap...
Btw...that black support frig is from the gruop chassing Capt Elson at mission 11 I guess.
this level was fun. I always use a fighter or a probe the bait the ion frigates and pick them out with the salvage corvettes at the same time having the carriers in tow to salvage the frigates faster.
guess I should mention how I got the swarmer . . . . 3 of them were left at the end of the mission . . sent 3 salvage corvettes . . they kept chasing the swarmers in an area for a long time . . . I left my PC that way and returned after 3 hours . . 1 of them were captured! . . tada . . couldn't wait any longer . . so I continued . . . . . . . . I salvaged all the frigates/capital class ships possible to salvage upto this lvl for your info
@XxSDIxXxEVOXx I dont know how I managed it but on the 2nd mission inside the nebula the lead fighter came up and started talking (I had selected most of my fleet) I attacked him killed him.
BUT after I killed him nothing happened no battle the kedesh just stayed were they were every singe one of them all over the map easiest salvage run ever.
@XxSDIxXxEVOXx I would like to ask you something.I have been looking for a certain game but cant find it.The game is called Hunter and is dated from 1998.Its about a flying car and your goal is to search and destroy enemies and MIKE TYSON is the car pilot.I know it sounds noobish but the game is epic.I played the demo when i was a kid.Do you know about this game(PS i also played homeworld).And simulation in the hunter is great.Do you know anything about this?
19 multi beam frigates , 1 fuel pod, 7 cloak generators 10 swarmers, 16 advanced swarmers 3 minelayers corveetes 1 sensors array(so dam hard to get because it was off the map biundries) 28 support frigates, 10 where black. I also was able to build 10 more frigates from getting my captured carrier caugh in the well of souls mission =)
i only used 25 salvadge corvettes but i kept 10 support frigates on the ones i was using . i only used what i needed to capture ships, and no more, also prebuilding my ships so that i could capture ships so that they wouldnt count as my initial fleet of 80 fighters, 50 vettes 18 frigates ect ect
when i was playing this game i got to hiigara and i captured the first 3 waves of attacking ships, the third wave ignored my mother ship and folled my support frigates around and thats how i captured them. i came up from behind and captured them
Thing is that it's easier to steal more frigate than destroyers because of the missions. Indeed, you don't really meet loads of destroyers during the game, apart from the very last missions.
u captured a hellofa alot ion cannons in mission 14 it seems, but wut i really wanna know howa many salvage corvettes u used to execute this shit cause ur my idol man:D
Oh ye and also how is your circle all around the Field Generator in a nice circle? My circle was kinda split into 2 so when i ended up finishing the level i had about half the ships still left to kill (which i didnt mess with them obviously lol)
wow nice one!!! I would find it hard to salvage all that because knowing me my salvage corvettes would get 0wned while their tugging the ships lol! But ye nice 0wnage fleet!!
But there`s only one swarmer :) The biggest fleet it would be if there would be 2 turanic carriers (well, without hack it`s not possible :(), many turanic corvettes and fighters, many kadeshi swarmers and iPods :)
And, well, how do U control these carriers, if the place is reserved only for 4?
when you encounter captin elson, i captured the entire fleet that was chasing him, yes including the 8 elite guard taiidan intercepters,took alot of time and i had to stop my ships from killin them =)
when you encounter captin elson, i captured the entire fleet that was chasing him, yes including the 8 elite guard taiidan intercepters,took alot of time and i had to stop my ships from killin them =)
omg.. at that level there is just wayyy too many stuff.... you dont even need all of those... but the level took me like 5 hours to finish... and i only ended up capturing like 50 ion frigates....cuz i didnt need anymore... but it was good to have like full carrier count and 5 cruisers.. but i love the MBF.. too bad one of them died before i can salv in lv 7
anyone have the "globe" of ion frigates move on you? After a certain time, the globe shifted to where i could not reach them any longer. I was furios. Impressive fleet, OP!
Yeah, after mission 2 you can pretty much capture everything! I just dusted off my copy a couple days ago just to see how big i could get my fleet. Nothing like creating a huge squadron of salvage corvettes, guarding them with repair corvettes, and then guarding them with support frigates. Send some fighters amd bombers in to aggro the enemy ships and salvage away!
thats strange I specifically remeber trying to capture those specail iron cannon frigates and it wouldnt let me. anyways I had 11 multibeam frigates and 7 heavy cruisers by the end so my fleet wasnt much smaller
I'm surprised at that fleet bud. However you could have scrapped more multi-beam frigs than that. I think there's 18-20 of them in the 2 nebula missions. Scrapping is the way to go in Homeworld! Was I the only one who thought it a big let down that you cannot capture the Turanic Raider's Carrier? At first i was like :D, but then I was like :(.
Also, the best way to beat this mission is to sneak a small cloaked strike force into the center!
-AND he got himself a lil swarmer at the end there!
Good strategy for this mission without taking hours upon hours to capture things: Take 3 kadesh multibeam frigates and 3 cloak generators (with 3 cloak generators you can cloak forever so long as you don't use them all at the same time) put the multibeams in broad formation and tell your generators (in broad) to guard the center one. Cloak the ships and move straight to the inhibitors. Optional: Put 15-20 attack bombers in sphere around the center frigate. (They usually die anyway).
Screw that! The garrison force just waits for them to fire which renders them uncloaked long enough to take at least a third of a multibeam frigate's health. Not to mention you have to avoid collisions with the inhibitor (units get carried away sometimes and go too near it). Stealing is the way to go, as you can steal big enough holes to eventually nab their heavy cruiser and maybe a destroyer or two.
well it worked for me, many times. Like i said this is a quick win strategy. And so long as you don't let you frigates get carried away they won't run into the inhibitor. I find changing which inhibitor to hit as they rotate prevents collisions. (i.e. only have them attack the section in front of them and when it moves away change targets).
did you just salvage every single ship (excluding fighters except for that swarmer) instead of destroying them? XD How many carriers did you capture? Looked like 4 or 5.
this was done just after that gate level wasn't it... how did u gm et all of those Ion Cannon ships anyway.... cloaking the salvage ships with a cloaker and then bringing them to a nearby carrier?
I tried to capture the Turanic carrier (which is technically a mothership) the first time you see it once... The corvettes just wound up haulling its ass around and around the mothership in a long, drawn out orbit...
Again, that's becaus the Turanic carrier is technically a mothership class... It's actually much bigger than either the Kushan or Tiidan carriers and is thus too big for the doors..
nice. it's all about the salvage corvettes. and it's totally worth it to capture all those ion frigates just so you can create your own multilayer concentric sphere of doom! not too practical, but it looks awesome!
HOLY!! Do u captured them all in the campain? I tried to cpature them but the AI system in my Homeworld also destroy the salvage guys first. (Pretty Ramdom, because I can destroy them while they are chasing for my salvage teams.)
There's a very fine system to doing it, and it just requires some patience (a LOT of patience) and some micromanagement. I've found that on the hyperspace inhibitor level, you can send a single salvager to lure 10-12 ion frigates out at a time. They should be hell-bent on vaping it as long as you keep it in their sights. Just sneak up and voila, 10 free ions. Repeat as many times as you please.
I no. But the question is: The enemy's first target is my salvage team, no matter what. Even I order my salvage team to run, they keep chasing. Well, strangest thing was that even the enemey is under attacked by my frigates, they don't respond but kept chasing for my salvage. If I dock my salvage, they change their course. Strange guys. If you can answer why, that would be great. Ty.
Okay, try setting up shop with LOTS of salvagers a good distance in front of the mothership, and just send one out. They should completly ignore the other teams. A combination of 10 or so salvage teams and four carriers processing all of the frigates should give you enough time to capture them all before they reach the mothership.
Did you take the time to harvest whenever a mission was over? I was able to harvest the Kasdesh nebula dry (take that you over-protective bastards!) and I was set from there on out.
It's not as if you have to do what is shown in this clip to win the game anyway, so don't worry too much, though it is much, much harder if you don't go around capturing left and right as this guy obviously has...
As for me personally, whilst I'm not a capture whore like this guy, in my recent game (just today made it to Bridge of Sighs), I have captured (including vessels taken from the ghost ship) a heavy cruiser, a carrier, three destroyers (1 missile, two standard), five (I think) assault frigates, two ion cannon frigates, six or seven ion array frigates with one or two thus far destroyeed and seven Kadeshi multi-beam frigates
yep homeworld was the best... Then cataclysm.. It's a shame that cata didn't gave the opertunity to play all races taiidan, kushan + cata stuff.. hw2 was the weakest from all.
How ever the homeworld 2 FX mod makes it possible to play pronitors, kadesh, hiigara units, vaygr, bentusi & taiidan, turranic raiders in 1 mod. unfortunalety that's the race limit for hw2. Otherwise they would include kushan + beast & somtaaw. Give it a try there also some vids about this mod here on youtube. nice vid!
This is an impressive fleet. You've done well so far. Capture all of the ion cannon frigates in front of you and you'll have something. By the way, it's entirely possible to capture many more Kadeshi swarmers and a few more Taiidan carriers. Good work so far!
Rofl :) this isnt the biggest :) When i did this mission again i did not destroy that inhibitor till i had 95% of those frigates collected. I was doin the campign again and thus knew that salvage corvettes would come in handy at most spots. So i took more enemy vessels out of any combat then i killed actually :). I played this sphere mission bout 4 hours to collect the majority of those frigates which came in handy at the next mission with the supermassive rock. Piece of cake :)
This was a weird mission for me. I salvaged like 20 then half the sphere attack en mass. I blew the shit out of them because they were unorganized and didn't all come at once. Then for some reason the other half took off and left the game map. Weird eh? Must have been scared
Yea, Still I was for the second game HomeWorld Cat you could play as the beast in the camp like in HW1 or something like that...Anyway man....that is BIG! lol I love that game...still play it 2 =P
when i played this, i actualy captured raider fighters, raider standard corvettes, raider missle corvettes
also captured eliete guard intercepters(black fighters) , taidan strike craft, kadesh swarmers and the carrier trick in sea of lost souls mission with the ghost ship
Gawd I hated that mission... I took to sending a few Cloaked fighters to really piss them off and draw them into little groups before lynching them with frigaes and stuff... though you must have taken unit capping off?
the total ion cannon frigate is 150 ships 2 destroyers 1 heavy cruiser 1 carrier 4 colletors ships 2 resource controlers i capture all its ships in briggets ligh in homeworl 1
i wouldn't say that its the biggest fleet...but it is big
urmoth3rdied2 3 months ago
Salvaging swarmers is not a big deal, just wait to blow any mushrom ship and they will get shocked for 30 secs or so, time enought to retrive them. The tricky thing is to salvage Turanic fighters and corvettes... I tryed many times and I just got a fighter and 2 missile corvettes.
FairFerret 4 months ago
Hyperspace Module how do you build that for the vaygr i cant find it someone help
VonBrunswick 5 months ago
Poor little swarmer, all on its own. :(
TheRealDemonicIdiot 5 months ago
I did the same thing on that mission
dansdonkey 6 months ago
I remember one mission where I had 100+ ion frigates... and the game couldn't finish this mission: it tried to get ships into formation for the jump and they wouldn't fit on the map.
Justanotherconsumer 7 months ago
May i ask what version of windows everyone is running Homeworld in? Cause Ive tried every compatibility mode on 2 computers and the game still crashes at start.
Schoppaul 7 months ago
@Schoppaul I've managed to run HW (at least Cataclysm, but if I recall correctly, HW1 also worked) on a W7 x64 computer. The only thing was I had to run it in software mode after patching it, else it would crash to desktop (not a problem running it at max resolution, since I was throwing an i7 860 at it... hehe).
You might also get away with a VM that lets the guest OS access the 3D hardware (not sure if XP Mode works), that way you might run it with a standard XP install with 3D acceleration.
maiaadriano 7 months ago
@maiaadriano Thanks. What i eventually did was buy another HW disk, install it, patch it up to the current version, then i used the german.exe that everyone talks about. And im using Windows 7x64 as well.
Schoppaul 7 months ago
In my view, the devs RUINED the game by changing the newer versions of HW so there is a limit on the number of ships you can captured. Capturing ships big and small was a pure JOY in HW. Its a single player aspect of the game. WHO CARES if we had a thousand ion frigates? As I result I never paid for any of the newer versions when I realized that I could no longer do what I loved best, which was capturing ships. Sometimes developers forget that a game is meant to be FUN, balance be damned
tempslsl 7 months ago
savage corvette power alaaallll mission man xD
dfering 11 months ago
Now THAT'S what I call a fleet!!
spacetownman 11 months ago
Build 100 Probes, then send them into a mothership, it's called Probe golf.
What it does?
A: A glith that the probes will crash into enemy ships, if you scuttle them, they do more damage.
merdaporrenta 11 months ago
@merdaporrenta
u cant make 100 probes without mod
XxSDIxXxEVOXx 11 months ago
lol 1 little swarmer
TheJimozu 1 year ago
haha i did that too... salvaged almost every ion canon fregate of the (i called it) tooth brush station mission. God that took ages... In Kadesh Salvaged every multibeam fregate. Selvaged almost every Ship from Destroyers upwards. Selvaging was so inbalanced in HW1 ^^ but it was fun.
ultrauller 1 year ago
Sajuuk burns them all xD
KoreanBackdash 1 year ago
zomg..
jaspertheking4life 1 year ago
Hey! I built something that exact same length! Except it went across the map, but then it lagged and force closed, LOL!
iConvertStuff 1 year ago
200 ion frigates, 80 support frigates, 60 destroyers, 20 carriers, 3 battlecruisers, and one lonely swarmer.
superseung 1 year ago
I've had WAY bigger fleets. 133 Ion cannon frigates alone. Neat little glitch there in HW1.
CherokeeMarshal 1 year ago
im gonna get both homeworld 1 and 2 already rented them i just cant wait
lahocsm0011 1 year ago
I had this many, thought you managed to get one more then me :P cause I lost my patience with the swarmer after 1 min hahaha.
Arcaneraven 1 year ago
ur freak man
Monocerus 1 year ago
I picked the game of the year edition of this game from deals yesterday. Lol. Fyi, Deals is a $1 everything store.
VinnieSkatesSentry 1 year ago
I loved this game so much, i was actually having dreams about capturing more frigates with my salvage corvettes from that big sphere surrounding the hyperspace inhibitor. Back in 1999 this game was truly a masterpiece !
lulubeloo 1 year ago
got more multibeam frigates =P
dantunes112 1 year ago
lol not only is my fleet bigger its more powerful.. a single cruiser and carrier could kill all of your stuff...
178thbattlegroup 1 year ago
I once managed to harvest almost the entire sphere of Taidan beam frigates from that mission, but I did capture all of the larger ships and most of the fighters and resource collectors in that mission. When you attacked the three gates, new warships would appear, and my capture corvettes would be waiting to snag them. However, I had so many they proved useless against the Taidan emperor as they maneuvered around. And I captured both type 1 & 2 swarmers and their fuel ships
ShereKhanTiger 1 year ago
What game is this? i would very much like to play it.
killweb2 1 year ago
@killweb2 this is Home world there is also home world cataclisum and Home world 2. I would try ebay most games store i know of dot carry it any more.
rickewjr 1 year ago
i'm noobish in this game, but on skirmish, can you get the other alien race, turken... something?
Jpzinho007 2 years ago
@Jpzinho007
taidaan, and yes, in skirmish u can play as both races
wnxsystem 2 years ago
you can also get the turanic raiders if you DL the right modz.
thEsPamer106 2 years ago
Can you capture the pirate carrier?
muf321 2 years ago
no, not enough savager hard point to tow it in.
thEsPamer106 2 years ago
You know, I had a really big fleet too, not as big but something like yours, and it was great, but it also was anoying everytime you started a mission some of the ships took a long time to get there when they attacked you right away.
Descalabro 2 years ago
And also there was a point where I couldn't salvage more ships, the corvetes would just stand there without delivering the enemy ship. I also tried to capture the mothership at the gardens of kharak(??), but I reached the limit of salvage corvettes...
Descalabro 2 years ago
Now that's just silly :)
nice work though.
I never really bother with carriers, just get as many cruisers and destroyers as possible.
mwallaby 2 years ago
I nomally turn enemy carriers that i captured into RUs.
muf321 2 years ago
wooooooooow respect man... wut i would give to see those in action...
Akron62 2 years ago
LOL
the size of that fleet is just rude, lol :D
Tenshiwing 2 years ago
OMG THIS BRINGS BACK SO MANY MEMORIES!!!
I was crazy about homeworld 1. I must have finished it sooo many times. I was a maniac about capturing enemy ships with my salvage corvettes, I remember capping every single one of the Kadeshi refuelling ships and even a few of their "gas tank empty" fighters!!
At the junkyard dog battle, my fleet was sooo freaking large, I couldnt teleport! LOL.
Those were the days!! I loved this game. This frap brought back so many memories. THANKS!
kaushiklodh 2 years ago
that's a great idea !! capture those ion cannons !! marvelous i never thought about this :)
gedzik1 2 years ago
Really strange that you have Taiidan units, but Kushan mothership O_o... not like in Homeworld 1.
zieba 2 years ago
Im at the HiperSpace Inhibitor Mission; 107 Ion frigates, 32 assault frig., 8 destroyers, 4 missile destroyers, like 30 swarmes, 1 minelaying corv (T), 5 Heavy corv.(T), 5 multiG corv.(T), arround 12 support frigates, 3 Battle cruisers...
And soon 4 more destroyers, 1 more carrier and another battleC... plus all 9 ion array frigates (love the desing) and like 17 multibeam frig´s... and more crap...
Btw...that black support frig is from the gruop chassing Capt Elson at mission 11 I guess.
FairFerret 2 years ago
lol this fleet will sure help hiigara but where did you get the black taiidan support frigate.
TheAl12345 2 years ago
LOL @ the 1 swarmer
dsagentutube 2 years ago
this level was fun. I always use a fighter or a probe the bait the ion frigates and pick them out with the salvage corvettes at the same time having the carriers in tow to salvage the frigates faster.
Nice collection of multi-beam frigates.
karlfu11 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
ho make this vidio is a cheater
luisbooss 2 years ago
Right... salvage vettes in singleplayer are considered a cheat now, lol. Epic fail.
muodypl2 2 years ago
My Goddness but thats Homeworld Cataclysm
MrNoAim01 2 years ago
I wish they let you play the other two races, I like using fighters over capitals so I'd play kadesh alot :P
it would be an interesting challenge too playing the turanic raiders against a main race because they have such poor ships, though tough
weylin6 2 years ago
guess I should mention how I got the swarmer . . . . 3 of them were left at the end of the mission . . sent 3 salvage corvettes . . they kept chasing the swarmers in an area for a long time . . . I left my PC that way and returned after 3 hours . . 1 of them were captured! . . tada . . couldn't wait any longer . . so I continued . . . . . . . . I salvaged all the frigates/capital class ships possible to salvage upto this lvl for your info
XxSDIxXxEVOXx 2 years ago
@XxSDIxXxEVOXx I dont know how I managed it but on the 2nd mission inside the nebula the lead fighter came up and started talking (I had selected most of my fleet) I attacked him killed him.
BUT after I killed him nothing happened no battle the kedesh just stayed were they were every singe one of them all over the map easiest salvage run ever.
Never been able to repeat it.
Zsteel 2 years ago
@Zsteel
Haha. those missions were hard. The huge motherships pwned. I loved stealing the multi beams though. They were awesome.
That70sFan492 2 years ago
@XxSDIxXxEVOXx
you can use a gravwell to capture strike craft
ben3580 1 year ago
@XxSDIxXxEVOXx I would like to ask you something.I have been looking for a certain game but cant find it.The game is called Hunter and is dated from 1998.Its about a flying car and your goal is to search and destroy enemies and MIKE TYSON is the car pilot.I know it sounds noobish but the game is epic.I played the demo when i was a kid.Do you know about this game(PS i also played homeworld).And simulation in the hunter is great.Do you know anything about this?
marin677a 1 year ago
@XxSDIxXxEVOXx yes, salvaging ships is a smart way to inrease your numbers
iirc in this mission you can salvage so many ships that some of them will have to be destroyed, otherwise you wont be able to enter hyper space :]
cool game thou
utar88utar 1 year ago
@XxSDIxXxEVOXx
I have 9 swarmers 36 salvage corvetts and a fleet about 3-5 times larger than yours after hundreds of hours of capturing small and big ships.
Now I'm on the last level Hilgara with about a thousand units. From scouts to heavy cruisers.
I've just got a job and haven't had the energy to complete my assimilations of this levels units.
This run for me capturing ships is the 4th in order.
I've captured everything there is that is possible.
;-P
How did you recorded this video?
h02ctn 8 months ago
i hope to get my You tube video of my fleet up soon
halffliffe 2 years ago
in HWC using big viewer to change the support value of support modules and carriers to comething crazy like 100000000000 units was awesome
id end up with an insanely hard computer palyer with a bajillion ships rofl
Lexx152001 2 years ago
i modded a game file and built 100 salvage corvettes and captured almost every ship that i found! lol nice swarmer!
HoBoeJoe2 2 years ago
19 multi beam frigates , 1 fuel pod, 7 cloak generators 10 swarmers, 16 advanced swarmers 3 minelayers corveetes 1 sensors array(so dam hard to get because it was off the map biundries) 28 support frigates, 10 where black. I also was able to build 10 more frigates from getting my captured carrier caugh in the well of souls mission =)
halffliffe 2 years ago
now my captured ships where
7 carriers , 2 of them black from lvl 16
11 heavy cruisers 3 of the black
27 destroyers, 11 missle destroyers 2 black ,157 ion frigs, 114 where black
35 proxy sensors,32 scouts 178 intercepters, 8 of the where black, 124 defenders, 97 heavy corvettes-11 where black,8 defense fighters,56 multigun vettes 12 where black, 96 assult frigates, 8 where black 14 collecters, 3 controllers, 21 missle corvettes,17 standards corvettes, 26 raider fighters, 9 ion array frigs
halffliffe 2 years ago
thats impressive. i have trouble capturing the corvettes and smaller ships. how many salvage corvettes did you use??
mkwhp 2 years ago
i only used 25 salvadge corvettes but i kept 10 support frigates on the ones i was using . i only used what i needed to capture ships, and no more, also prebuilding my ships so that i could capture ships so that they wouldnt count as my initial fleet of 80 fighters, 50 vettes 18 frigates ect ect
halffliffe 2 years ago
my final ship tally before i killed the emperor was
my fleet i built
3 carriers, 3 destroyers, 1 missles destroyer, 4 collecters,4 controllers 30 intercepters 18 scouts 3 light and heavy corvettes 4 repair corvettes 5 ion frigs 5 assult frigs 7 gravewells
halffliffe 2 years ago
when i was playing this game i got to hiigara and i captured the first 3 waves of attacking ships, the third wave ignored my mother ship and folled my support frigates around and thats how i captured them. i came up from behind and captured them
halffliffe 2 years ago
LOL! You got a Swarmer too. Thats awesome
tikatuwa 2 years ago
is this game any good?
The7thFret 2 years ago
Best game in the WORLD
Shunmaha 2 years ago 18
it's amazing. takes practice to lern but over all the controles are great. and the gamplay is adictive
stingrayfff 2 years ago
lol u must be realy amazing to steel that many ships. i used salvage corvets to take as many as i coold but noware near that.
stingrayfff 2 years ago
i've seen bigger but dude this is an awesome fleet it could destroy a fucking planet if it was real XD
shutup735 2 years ago
its a nice fleet but curse the fact that youve only got one swarmer lol
XownedftwX 2 years ago
0.0 i just started playing omg
CrazySteveStudios 2 years ago
Thing is that it's easier to steal more frigate than destroyers because of the missions. Indeed, you don't really meet loads of destroyers during the game, apart from the very last missions.
afterburner94 2 years ago
my fleet can murder your fleet.........
LORDKEROTH 2 years ago
but he's got a bigger cock for your mouth.
STFU or just post a video response...
useless comment, really
afterburner94 2 years ago
u captured a hellofa alot ion cannons in mission 14 it seems, but wut i really wanna know howa many salvage corvettes u used to execute this shit cause ur my idol man:D
mmowaffak 2 years ago
he stated he used 24 salvage corvettes.
hposas1 2 years ago
daaammmnn nice!
specterseal999 2 years ago
Oh ye and also how is your circle all around the Field Generator in a nice circle? My circle was kinda split into 2 so when i ended up finishing the level i had about half the ships still left to kill (which i didnt mess with them obviously lol)
50LightSabersInAPack 2 years ago
wow nice one!!! I would find it hard to salvage all that because knowing me my salvage corvettes would get 0wned while their tugging the ships lol! But ye nice 0wnage fleet!!
50LightSabersInAPack 2 years ago
It`s really big :)
But there`s only one swarmer :) The biggest fleet it would be if there would be 2 turanic carriers (well, without hack it`s not possible :(), many turanic corvettes and fighters, many kadeshi swarmers and iPods :)
And, well, how do U control these carriers, if the place is reserved only for 4?
mitguard 2 years ago
is it eaven possible to salvage a swarmer?
dinkcool 2 years ago
Holy...crap... That is amazing! I'm uber jealous :'(
webbie878 2 years ago
i can't think this is real...nono....it's impossible!
hahaha
gimmypallanuotista 2 years ago
when you encounter captin elson, i captured the entire fleet that was chasing him, yes including the 8 elite guard taiidan intercepters,took alot of time and i had to stop my ships from killin them =)
halffliffe 2 years ago
Lol 0:30, the ship is like "Damn not in line yet!!"
Vlesh 3 years ago 13
ARE ANY OF THOSE YOURS!?!?! lol seems like all of them re salvaged. nice carriers by the way.
DoubleCresentFilms 3 years ago
when you encounter captin elson, i captured the entire fleet that was chasing him, yes including the 8 elite guard taiidan intercepters,took alot of time and i had to stop my ships from killin them =)
halffliffe 2 years ago
Wow, That's a lot of carriers
cookiehead2 3 years ago
lol awesome
GHOST3R 3 years ago
omg.. at that level there is just wayyy too many stuff.... you dont even need all of those... but the level took me like 5 hours to finish... and i only ended up capturing like 50 ion frigates....cuz i didnt need anymore... but it was good to have like full carrier count and 5 cruisers.. but i love the MBF.. too bad one of them died before i can salv in lv 7
07JEM 3 years ago
anyone have the "globe" of ion frigates move on you? After a certain time, the globe shifted to where i could not reach them any longer. I was furios. Impressive fleet, OP!
r1david 3 years ago
i tried to capture the carrier at mission 2 but then i had 20+ salvage corvettes that keep saying the "ship's too big." is this a bug or something?
ichersue 3 years ago
i think since it's the raider's carrier, they want you to destroy it, i have tried and tried and failed...
r1david 3 years ago 2
so you mean all those taiidan carriers in later missions can be captured?!? after mission 2 i always thought carriers were un-capturable! thanks :D
ichersue 3 years ago
Yeah, after mission 2 you can pretty much capture everything! I just dusted off my copy a couple days ago just to see how big i could get my fleet. Nothing like creating a huge squadron of salvage corvettes, guarding them with repair corvettes, and then guarding them with support frigates. Send some fighters amd bombers in to aggro the enemy ships and salvage away!
r1david 3 years ago
everything besides mothership-sized ships. i'm at level 8 now, and i'm thinking of starting over
ichersue 3 years ago
ah, I remember having placed my carriers around the "orb" to quicken the boarding operations :)
cero815 3 years ago
HAHA! So I'm not the only one who figured out the secret of that one level.
I spent hours capturing Ion Cannon Frigates! XD
The Emporor's mothership didn't last very long.
VEKL0R 3 years ago
thats strange I specifically remeber trying to capture those specail iron cannon frigates and it wouldnt let me. anyways I had 11 multibeam frigates and 7 heavy cruisers by the end so my fleet wasnt much smaller
poop4charity 3 years ago
Heh, i don't think i ever got pass that level...
Novalight2550 3 years ago
I think I had a bigger fleet at the end, but I'd have to get on the game to check.
EndsBeginning 3 years ago
I'm surprised at that fleet bud. However you could have scrapped more multi-beam frigs than that. I think there's 18-20 of them in the 2 nebula missions. Scrapping is the way to go in Homeworld! Was I the only one who thought it a big let down that you cannot capture the Turanic Raider's Carrier? At first i was like :D, but then I was like :(.
Also, the best way to beat this mission is to sneak a small cloaked strike force into the center!
-AND he got himself a lil swarmer at the end there!
PocketAces18 3 years ago
This is necessary for the Headshot asteroid!
Arissef 3 years ago
dude u got them in that mission where theres like 100 ion fridgate
soldjaboy321 3 years ago
For some reason i think those black ion frigets are far mor powerful and have more armor than usual, but when you salvage them they get weaker.
Sidbrz 3 years ago
lol, just play multiplayer game vs the CPU and they'll keep pumping out ship after ship for you to capture....it can go on forever.
ydna2 3 years ago
ion frigs and destroyers FTW!!
2djd 3 years ago
really nice fleet
BUT
mine was bigger
I took ALL the ships at that mission, plus many more in other missions
aramiris 3 years ago
how do I get the black ships??? pls PM me
DarkKiith 3 years ago
Just salvage those Taiidan ships in the bridge of sighs... its simple
Newcal5 3 years ago
really loved this game.
this is what got me onto eve-online.
mohanicus 3 years ago 2
nice fleet :-D
im still waiting for homeworld 3 ^^
fraqlie 3 years ago 4
Good strategy for this mission without taking hours upon hours to capture things: Take 3 kadesh multibeam frigates and 3 cloak generators (with 3 cloak generators you can cloak forever so long as you don't use them all at the same time) put the multibeams in broad formation and tell your generators (in broad) to guard the center one. Cloak the ships and move straight to the inhibitors. Optional: Put 15-20 attack bombers in sphere around the center frigate. (They usually die anyway).
joejaboy 3 years ago
Screw that! The garrison force just waits for them to fire which renders them uncloaked long enough to take at least a third of a multibeam frigate's health. Not to mention you have to avoid collisions with the inhibitor (units get carried away sometimes and go too near it). Stealing is the way to go, as you can steal big enough holes to eventually nab their heavy cruiser and maybe a destroyer or two.
deroboi 3 years ago
well it worked for me, many times. Like i said this is a quick win strategy. And so long as you don't let you frigates get carried away they won't run into the inhibitor. I find changing which inhibitor to hit as they rotate prevents collisions. (i.e. only have them attack the section in front of them and when it moves away change targets).
joejaboy 3 years ago
did you just salvage every single ship (excluding fighters except for that swarmer) instead of destroying them? XD How many carriers did you capture? Looked like 4 or 5.
joejaboy 3 years ago
Really cool vid. I loved Homeworld. I just wish they'd make another sequel. It was too great to just fade away.
tonebenderx 3 years ago 2
this was done just after that gate level wasn't it... how did u gm et all of those Ion Cannon ships anyway.... cloaking the salvage ships with a cloaker and then bringing them to a nearby carrier?
HamSTAR1986 3 years ago
not to brag but ive had bigger:/
KILLZ0NA 3 years ago
swarmers are a B**** to catch but they are def worth it in my opinion
Socar08 3 years ago
What are the numbers of ships that you have, sorted by class
NanobotMk2 3 years ago
did the same thing
i captured allot of those multi laser gun craft from the cathedral episode
i even tried to capture a mother ship, didn't work out though
i usually had 10-15 salvage crafts, sent fighters as a distraction then ordered in the salvage crew to capture crafts
godscuttingyoudown 3 years ago
I tried to capture the Turanic carrier (which is technically a mothership) the first time you see it once... The corvettes just wound up haulling its ass around and around the mothership in a long, drawn out orbit...
SirBroadsword 3 years ago
ya that's true even if you did get it back to the mother ship the ship won't open its bay doors, it just sits their and the carrier just wiggles.
godscuttingyoudown 3 years ago
Again, that's becaus the Turanic carrier is technically a mothership class... It's actually much bigger than either the Kushan or Tiidan carriers and is thus too big for the doors..
SirBroadsword 3 years ago
nice. it's all about the salvage corvettes. and it's totally worth it to capture all those ion frigates just so you can create your own multilayer concentric sphere of doom! not too practical, but it looks awesome!
ruberhamus 3 years ago
ive had bigger
trunksshinohara 3 years ago
wow!!! large fleet dude!!!
In campaing, richt??
In campain mod, mi max numbres of frigates is 80!!!
Donguary 3 years ago
nice fleet!!!
masterpowernoob 3 years ago
HOLY!! Do u captured them all in the campain? I tried to cpature them but the AI system in my Homeworld also destroy the salvage guys first. (Pretty Ramdom, because I can destroy them while they are chasing for my salvage teams.)
GameloverEnjoyer 3 years ago
There's a very fine system to doing it, and it just requires some patience (a LOT of patience) and some micromanagement. I've found that on the hyperspace inhibitor level, you can send a single salvager to lure 10-12 ion frigates out at a time. They should be hell-bent on vaping it as long as you keep it in their sights. Just sneak up and voila, 10 free ions. Repeat as many times as you please.
Yesfan90125 3 years ago
I no. But the question is: The enemy's first target is my salvage team, no matter what. Even I order my salvage team to run, they keep chasing. Well, strangest thing was that even the enemey is under attacked by my frigates, they don't respond but kept chasing for my salvage. If I dock my salvage, they change their course. Strange guys. If you can answer why, that would be great. Ty.
GameloverEnjoyer 3 years ago
Okay, try setting up shop with LOTS of salvagers a good distance in front of the mothership, and just send one out. They should completly ignore the other teams. A combination of 10 or so salvage teams and four carriers processing all of the frigates should give you enough time to capture them all before they reach the mothership.
Yesfan90125 3 years ago
I agree. But the only problem is the RU. How I suppose to get that much? I need some for my military.Whatever it was, thanks for your advise.
GameloverEnjoyer 3 years ago
Did you take the time to harvest whenever a mission was over? I was able to harvest the Kasdesh nebula dry (take that you over-protective bastards!) and I was set from there on out.
Yesfan90125 3 years ago
Well, I used most of the RU's for military. Anyway, I'm dum at capturing ships sometimes.
GameloverEnjoyer 3 years ago
GameloverEnjoyer:
It's not as if you have to do what is shown in this clip to win the game anyway, so don't worry too much, though it is much, much harder if you don't go around capturing left and right as this guy obviously has...
SirBroadsword 3 years ago
As for me personally, whilst I'm not a capture whore like this guy, in my recent game (just today made it to Bridge of Sighs), I have captured (including vessels taken from the ghost ship) a heavy cruiser, a carrier, three destroyers (1 missile, two standard), five (I think) assault frigates, two ion cannon frigates, six or seven ion array frigates with one or two thus far destroyeed and seven Kadeshi multi-beam frigates
SirBroadsword 3 years ago
yep homeworld was the best... Then cataclysm.. It's a shame that cata didn't gave the opertunity to play all races taiidan, kushan + cata stuff.. hw2 was the weakest from all.
How ever the homeworld 2 FX mod makes it possible to play pronitors, kadesh, hiigara units, vaygr, bentusi & taiidan, turranic raiders in 1 mod. unfortunalety that's the race limit for hw2. Otherwise they would include kushan + beast & somtaaw. Give it a try there also some vids about this mod here on youtube. nice vid!
HunterInHunt 3 years ago
This is an impressive fleet. You've done well so far. Capture all of the ion cannon frigates in front of you and you'll have something. By the way, it's entirely possible to capture many more Kadeshi swarmers and a few more Taiidan carriers. Good work so far!
Webstral 3 years ago
god i loved this game.
my fleet was bigger however, i captured ton's of ships. i even managed to grab a more the a few of those little bug ships.
no game has had the effect on me that this game did. i still miss my first run threw.
mpower6428 3 years ago
Rofl :) this isnt the biggest :) When i did this mission again i did not destroy that inhibitor till i had 95% of those frigates collected. I was doin the campign again and thus knew that salvage corvettes would come in handy at most spots. So i took more enemy vessels out of any combat then i killed actually :). I played this sphere mission bout 4 hours to collect the majority of those frigates which came in handy at the next mission with the supermassive rock. Piece of cake :)
Maxuskrachus 3 years ago
This was a weird mission for me. I salvaged like 20 then half the sphere attack en mass. I blew the shit out of them because they were unorganized and didn't all come at once. Then for some reason the other half took off and left the game map. Weird eh? Must have been scared
WoodenSwordL 3 years ago
How did you get past the Ship-Building cap?
NanobotMk2 3 years ago
Big, but I've had bigger!
What can I say, I'm a massive salvage corvette whore, to cheap to build my ships.
liamMaru 3 years ago
This is thae hardest mission i found
it was tough to deal with but i used a singl cruiser and 7 claok generators
halffliffe 3 years ago
omg i hate that mission!
Prodozul 3 years ago
Is this how the game's graphics normally look? I have Homeworld on a computer that can easily run it but it looks very grainy and pixell-y.
R055HP 3 years ago
yeah that game looks like that
dranczo 3 years ago
I've had larger. but no Recordings as of yet.
newbowner 3 years ago
LOL
huge man!
i think my largest one wuz but 3/4 of urs!
licanthroppe 3 years ago
Yea, Still I was for the second game HomeWorld Cat you could play as the beast in the camp like in HW1 or something like that...Anyway man....that is BIG! lol I love that game...still play it 2 =P
WARLORD036 3 years ago
What the? turanic units?
ranger7650 3 years ago
when i played this, i actualy captured raider fighters, raider standard corvettes, raider missle corvettes
also captured eliete guard intercepters(black fighters) , taidan strike craft, kadesh swarmers and the carrier trick in sea of lost souls mission with the ghost ship
halffliffe 3 years ago
i couldn't sleep,when I played this game 7 years ago! xD
VictoriaTEAM 3 years ago 3
Gawd I hated that mission... I took to sending a few Cloaked fighters to really piss them off and draw them into little groups before lynching them with frigaes and stuff... though you must have taken unit capping off?
darthsoban 3 years ago
I had the same idea with the cloaking fighters :)
fallout444 3 years ago
lol i remember that mission was a pain in the ass, i also had fleet of that size and was fun.
whitescar911 3 years ago
Woah...
Thats like damn big man!
Lloonnee2 3 years ago
lol, that is gargantuan fleet! To bad you cant have squadrons in HW1 though, your fleet would look at least 5 times bigger XD
Yelonde 3 years ago
Oh, and btw, its almost HW1 10th year aniversary! That is wicked cool :)
Yelonde 3 years ago
I still wish they would have made it so you could play as the guys with the Needle Motherships. They were my favs.
BrutusOctopus 3 years ago 3
omg ....you salvaged almost every ship that was salvagable lol.....good job lol
SjPedro 3 years ago
the total ion cannon frigate is 150 ships 2 destroyers 1 heavy cruiser 1 carrier 4 colletors ships 2 resource controlers i capture all its ships in briggets ligh in homeworl 1
tijuana08 3 years ago
CRAZY!
JonnyProductions 4 years ago
yea, i think you could safely say that was the biggest fleet without offending anyone. thats amazing dude congratulations
coldstar07 4 years ago