pls, i need help; campaign mission "siege"

[ascii06]

hi,

ffs, can anyone help me, pls?:
Mission 3 of the campaign, Siege.
The Dread Lord ships are crazy!
Any tips on how to achieve the objektiv to invade Tiniath?

thx&bye

[Gufnork]

Well, the cheesy way is to rush it. You start with enough technology to beat the game as it starts. This is what I did:

1. Bought a colony ship. Sent it to the planet closest to the objective.
2. Bought a fighter.
3. Bought a transport.

I beat the mission in less than 20 turns.

If you don't want to do that, I recommend ignoring the dread lords ships. Try and get a high population on your planets so you'll survive any invasion attempts until you feel ready to invade. When you do, use fast ships (one of which should have good sensors) and avoid any dread lords you encounter. Then head straight for the planet and invade.

[tetley]

An even easier way: lose. Just to go the menu and hit "Retire", and after the defeat screen you get an alternative mission. It's much more peaceful. I went back & played the alternative and I won without firing a single shot.

[EternalSpark]

You start with enough technology to beat the game as it starts.

I don't start with Planetary Invasion in Seige.

[muxec]

I just lowered the difficulty to normal and killed dread lords in long fight. Large ships are useless against dread lords cause the kill any ship in single shot, but fleets of 6 tiny ships with 2 plasmas (after miniaturization and further research in plasma branch) can destroy fairly well almost all ships (there is a serious difference between fighting in attack and in defence, so the most dungerous dreadloard ship is extremely fast escort.

In the beginning up your economy by building economy starbases with bonuses.

[ZargonX]

The Dreadlords came and invaded all of the planets I had settled, and defeated me with a 450 to 7 advantage. Ouch.

[tetley]

It's going to be interesting taking on the DL's in 1.1.

[Shadowlord]

For a moment there, I misread that as "It's going to be interesting taking on the double-logins in 1.1."