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3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting with a few new ideas, Nov 10 2002
I fall in between the other reviewers on this one. I liked the book, but found that there were a few obvious items that they didn't include that I would have liked. The Homeworld:Cataclysm guide uses a tabular list of the ships, their cost, armour, firepower and speed etc... all viewable at once. I thought that should have been here too. In general, the book has good ideas, but I found that frequently, I had radically different strategies than the book that worked at least as well. This is ok, but still, I found that my was was quite obvious. The suggested strategy in
"The Bridge of Sighs" level (building 5 cloaking field
generators to cloak your entire fleet) is a little extreme.
That's 2500 RU's and it would be nice to have a few RU's around after this level. Frequently, the "strategy" for doing a level is basically knowing the level ahead of time and little else. How other ships will behave, what conditions will cause the enemy to start attacking and what direction they will arrive from etc... The multiplayer ideas are generally good, and I use them more than the single player level suggestions which I find of less use. I found that a few ships were left unexplored (the drone frigate and the defence field frigate are mentioned but there's almost no info on whether they are useful or not or how to use them). Your mileage may vary, but if you play this game a lot, and have tried many different ideas already, you will probably have used most of the strategies presented here. You'll already know what ships work against which others, what works well as an escort etc... Happy hunting.
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