Part 25

The emperor's flagship has missile destroyers and gravity wells to prevent early fighter attacks from the front.

If your fleet is mainly composed of fighters, the first wave of missile destroyers will be a significant threat. Use repair corvettes and support frigates to support your main ships (MS) and use bombers to attack the rears of enemy ships.

Separate bombers into groups of no more than 10 and assign them group numbers. Rotate wings of bombers manually by double-clicking on support frigates to dock them. Docking them with 'D' could lead to docking with the main ship (MS) or queuing with a repair corvette, wasting time.

When Captain Olson jumps in, support his ship and leave your repair corvettes behind to mop up remaining ships orbiting your MS.

Follow Olson scouting ahead until you reach the carrier battle group. Let his destroyer take the initial damage while you move your bombers behind his to take out the bombers and corvettes the carrier deploys.

You may encounter twin destroyers and a missile destroyer again. Let Olson take the damage while the missile destroyers are locked onto him, then send in bombers. Rotate your bomber wings unless you need major firepower and your bombers are low on fuel.

The next section is the hardest. You can let Captain Olson die. Retreat towards your MS, docking bombers as needed. Send them back into the fight against the 3 cruisers going after the support frigates. 2-3 passes with 2 squads should take them out.

Move your support frigates 14000 meters away from the battle and pick away at the remaining ships. They should be destroyed before they reach your MS.

Prepare for the final assault. Move any remaining ships or harvest remaining RUs (consider taking out the emperor's resourcers) to build a final fleet with capital ships or at least scouts.

Use these ships to lure the missile destroyers away from the emperor. Move just outside visual range of the flagship, then send in capital ships or scouts in a large, loose pattern, attacking the gravity wells first. Use scouts to lure away missiles; cloak generators may also help.

Take out the final picket towards the side of the flagship one by one, rotating bomber wings in order of distance to the flagship, further first.

Once the picket is gone, take out the sensor arrays to the left and right of the flagship by band-boxing selecting and attacking them.

Dock all fighters and corvettes to make the final run. Move any corvettes you have in a wall formation on aggressive, 3500 meters away from the flagship's fighter launch door.

Send in the bombers. Interceptors and sometimes scouts will emerge. When they line up, use your heavies to use burst fire on them.

After 2-3 minutes, the flagship should explode under fire from your bombers.