MY CURRENT STRATEGY GUIDE FOR HIGHER DIFFICULTIES.
SHOP:
ONLY buy shields, (except one engines upgrade for the stark before you play the optimizing stark mission {it's much cheaper then}). Shields can automatically recharge in battle and do not cost anything to repair, ergo, the best return on investment. If your shield breaks and you have no other recharged ships ready, spin your ship to get as much out of your armor as you can. {NOTE: this is fine for the last few levels, but if you do it early on you will fall behind}. If you damage your hull enough to slow your engines, don't repair, reload. Accept you messed up and don't let your shields break the next time you play the level.
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Can barely keep my shields up while on very hard mode, and that's with pausing every second to adjust my movement commands to keep cycling the ships into and out of the line of fire, (depending on how repaired their shields are.) Great job Sgt.Mook, This is the most difficult game I've ever played, that i still wanted to beat at full difficulty.
Why does this game that I just finished playing yesterday on very easy mode now say I need to update flash, (I have the most current flash player) before I can try to complete it on very hard mode.
Developers, I cannot stress enough how much more fun it would be if I could choose which enemy unit was marked, striked, suppressed, ect. , and how infuriating it is to be winning a close battle, then have the abilities AI* selection choose horribly and cause me to either waste an ability on a unit immune to it, or lose a battle because of it.
Maybe we could toggle manual abilities on and off like we do auto.
*It certainly isn't random, in fact it seems to choose the unit it deems most dangerous, but it can't recognize the situation. Like when it marks a unit that won't be hit and totally wastes it.
I'm really disappointed that the expansion doesn't have a part with armor III or block III . Here I thought I could finally bring the survival modes to a draw.
I need the ability to direct strikes and which unit the barriers are placed on, several times I have lost a battle that I could have won if my automatic AI wasn't trying to get me killed.