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Mission Four: Attack on Mon Calamari

Objectives

• Take Control of Mon Calamari space.
• Space Battle: Crush the Rebel scum and their Space Station.
• Eliminate all Mon Calamari capital ships.

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After your trip to Geonosis, your tech level will be bumped up a bit, allowing you to build level three Space Stations, Victory-Class Star Destroyers, and Shield Generators, as well as sundry other items, such as artillery units and 2-M Repulsor Tanks. Go ahead and upgrade your valuable planets, keeping in mind that Coruscant and Geonosis are going to be on the frontlines here. Actually, if you immediately attack Kuat, you should be able to take it over without too much of a hassle, allowing you to use it as your frontline planet in the eastern part of the galaxy.

After taking Kuat, you'll probably want to work your way into Ryloth and Nal Hutta before dealing with Kessel; it and Korriban are both controlled by pirates, so the Rebels won't really be threatening you from that direction. After all the available planets are under your control, amass your forces and head to Mon Calamari.

Space Battle

When you enter Mon Calamari space, you'll have a lengthy flight to reach the space station. Keep your Broadside Cruisers to the rear and use them to fire away at distant enemies; they can do a number on enemy capital ships, or the shields of the space station, depending on your preference. If you manage to get your troops in close to the station, try setting up your bombers for a bombing run on its hangar.

You're going to lose some ships here, but with
your reinforcements waiting to come into the system, you should be
able to beat the Star Cruisers nonetheless.

Shortly after you engage the space station, you'll be surprised to see two Mon Calamari Star Cruisers warp into the system. They'll be way back towards the edge of the screen, near where you first warped in yourself, so they shouldn't be an immediate threat to your forces, although they'll likely destroy your Broadsides if they didn't move overmuch. Don't worry about them immediately; continue your efforts against the space station until it's destroyed, since you don't want to be fighting a battle on two fronts.

When the station is down for the count, you'll likely not have to worry too much about any more enemy fighters, so feel free to send your Tartan Cruisers at the Star Cruisers in a suicide run, and use the population room to bring in more Victories and Acclamators. There's nothing particularly mysterious about taking down the Star Cruisers; they're more powerful than any of the ships that you have, but there are only two of them, whereas you should be able to bring in almost as many ships as you need to take them down. That's pretty much what you'll have to do, so just keep shuffling in reinforcements as your ships get destroyed, and concentrate all your firepower on one of the ships until it goes down, before moving on to the next.

When both Mon Calamari Cruisers are destroyed, you'll take control of the planet and its resources. No immediate upgrade in technology is evident, but hey - now you have your own race of fish people to lord over.