Marching Through Georgia
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Chanticleer Mission 5
Location: Stewart Cowley Station, Lunar orbit
Background
The Chanticleer and the 52nd are ordered to destroy a Federation fuel refinery orbiting Luna.
Walkthrough
You're going to be dogfighting lots of light fighters, so make sure you take at least one bank of Kaysers and one bank of Tornadoes.
You'll jump in at 7000 meters from the station, with two old Purusha frigates (the Tel Aviv and the Falcon), and two wings of Scimitar fighters between you and the station. Ignore the frigates and clear the fighters. Once the fighter screen is destroyed, a jump node and nav beacon target will appear on radar where the Chanticleer will emerge from subspace. The Chanticleer will jump in below the frigates and begin blasting them.
The UEF will send a sad group of four Uhlans to reinforce the station. Cowley Station will get furious, and prepare to launch Scimitars carrying Warhammer torpedoes. You can deal with this one of two ways: you can intercept the Scimitars, or you can try to knock out Cowley Station's fighter bay. The Chanticleer is so close to the station that the Scimitars are in Warhammer range from the second they leave the hangar bay, so move fast. If you lose the Chanticleer, you lose the mission. Ignore the frigates - the Chanticleer can handle them.
The frigates will engage their subspace drives when they take critical damage. Once the frigates are out of the picture, the remaining fighters will warp out as well.
After the defending ships are gone, Cowley Station surrenders. The Chanticleer orders the station personnel to evacuate. After some dialogue, Cowley launches its escape pods and the Chanticleer blows the station to smithereens. Mission accomplished. Approach the Chanticleer's hangar bay to end the mission.
Notes
- Stewart Cowley is an English sci-fi writer who created the celebrated Terran Trade Authority series of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
- Marching Through Georgia is a Unionist song from the American Civil War.
