Homeworld 3 - Mission 7 - Naraka Gate - No Commentary

Just me uploading my first playthrough of the Homeworld 3 campaign. Captured blind on release day.
Ryzen 5 3600
RTX 3060 TI FE
32GB 3600MHz
Classic control scheme

[@muf]

Wy no use res collectors to capture capital ships?

[@tiagodagostini]

"take your place by my side.. and together we will rule" was a tad too much empire strikes back :P

[@millsy25084606]

this mission so hard on max difficulty

[@tomgauntley]

I’ve failed it like 5 times so far on hard difficulty

[@darkdill]

Yeah, it doesn't help that Bombers and Railgun Corvettes are too damn squishy and replacing them will burn through your resources. Also, due to how the active abilities work on your Frigates, you have to use a LOT of tactical pauses to stand a chance. Finally, once you reach the third wave, Minelayer Frigates don't work nearly as well because the enemy Frigates and Destroyers can tank them. You still want to use them to shred the enemy's fighters and corvettes, but I don't think I'd bother trying to stop the enemy capital ships with mines by that point.
Once you reach the third wave, my suggestion is to abandon trying to hold the frontline position and fall back to the Mothership. If you try and hold right at the gate, the enemy will just run past you and kill the Mothership while your fleet tries to catch up. You can reposition your turrets when doing this, but you'll want to pause to give them orders.
The first time I did this mission, I actually didn't deploy my turrets properly. I thought they deployed the same way they do in HW2, but you have to do more than just a movement command. Anyhow, you want to leave a few of your anti-fighter turrets near the Mothership because you're surely going to have a few fighters and corvettes running past you through those gaps near the gate. Once you lose most of the turrets near the front, replace them with more anti-capital turrets and place those near the Mothership.
One last thing that I'm not sure of is whether or not any of the salvage you can get from destroyed capital ships gets auto-harvested at the end of the mission. If not, the devs should add an option for that, especially since the end-of-mission works like it does in HW2 rather than HW1 or Cataclysm.

[@NollieFlipX]

God... Mass Effect 3's ending was a better Sci-Fi story.