Imperium Galactica III - Genesis - Demo Submitted by:Terry Faber Tips & Tricks Everything you need to beat the demo is provided for you. The one tactic you need to use, as with every other RTS, is concentrated fire. Hitting the objectives button will elaborate further on using tactics within IG3. Pay attention when in the objectives screen, you will receive a brief explanation on the tactical advantages of your fleet, and how to appropriately use them. During game play, refrain from using artillery (you won't need it anyway). It has a huge blast radius, and does a large amount of damage to smaller ships. If you use artillery during battle, you'll run the very likely risk of blowing up all of your own ships. Also, try not to "abuse" your weapons. They all have limited amounts of ammunition that does not get replenished. When the mission begins, your crews engineer will run system checks on all ships, checking shields and engines. Afterward, your tactical officer will dispatch fighters. Within seconds, your tactical officer will announce that unidentified ships (three ships) have been detected entering the system. Shortly after, two more ships will enter the system-pause the game. Click on one of the two ships that have just entered the system. Select all of your ships, and hit the "Closing" button-resume the game. Your ships will begin approaching their designated target/destination. As soon as the first shot is fired by the enemy, pause the game. You have been provided with two ships that possess the abilities to destroy devices on enemy ships, and use stealth-select these two ships. Select their ability to destroy devices, this will display a table of devices on the targeted ship. Your ship(s) will destroy devices in the order that they are selected. Choose to destroy all devices, but choose to destroy the ships primary weaponry first. With the game still paused, select your ships that possess the ability to drain shields-you have been provided with two of them. Select the target ship and drain their shields. You'll have an extra ship left over with the ability to both deploy fighters, and dispense artillery attacks. Do not send this ship into battle, instead, try to get this ship out of harms way-you'll need those fighters later on. Before resuming the game, make sure that you're countering ships are all attacking the same ship [each ships is assigned a letter. When you order an attack on a ship, the letter of that ship will be displayed in the command box]. Now resume the game, and let it fly! Wait for the targeted ship to lose their shields. When they do, pause the game immediately. You'll see a green icon depicting a box with a checkmark in it. This indicates that the ships you ordered to drain the shields of the enemy ship have completed their task-select those very ships. They both have the ability to destroy ships. Choose this ability, and resume the game. Have these ships fire on the enemy ship until it has been left a wreck in space. Once the enemy ship you have targeted is no longer a threat, move onto the next ship using the same tactics. Remember to concentrate your fire. Take out all other ships before thinking about taking on the Gorg battleship. If you fail to take out the battleships escorts before hand, you'll end up losing a ship, and you'll be at a serious disadvantage when trying to achieve your next objective (you'll be better off restarting the demo if this happens). When the Gorg battleship has been laid to waste, send out one of your ships with the stealth ability to the designated Gorg outpost. Your ship will reveal that the asteroid field containing the outpost contains a heavy projectile defense net. The defense net is shaped like the letter "Y" laid on its side. The primary Gorg outpost is located at the intersection. Rally all of your ships to the base of the defense net, and deploy your fighters-they'll protect you from the bombardment of incoming projectiles. When this is done approach the first defensive outpost. Remember, these outposts are built inside asteroids, and are invulnerable against weapons. You'll need to select all ships with the "destroy devices" ability to destroy the weapons on all the outposts you encounter. When you arrive at the intersection of the defense net, ignore the primary outpost, instead, focus on destroy the two remaining outpost's of the defense net. When this is done, turn your attention to the primary outpost. Destroy the primary weapons on the outpost (Only) first. When this is done, drain the shields. When the shields are drained, attack the core generator and any other devices on the outpost. When you have succeeded, approach the exit point, and the demo will end.