Sins of a Solar Empire II: First Look at the "Defend the Homeworld" Scenario

Paths to Power adds a series of exciting new challenges for Sins II players to get their teeth into called Scenarios. These Scenarios have been hand crafted to highlight new styles of gameplay that aren’t available in the standard game setup options, or to provide an interesting in-game situation for the player to explore.

 

These maps often have some randomization involved and options to vary gameplay between tries, but their core mechanics and general map layout is usually the same. You’re encouraged to replay these maps over and over, to test your abilities as a commander against the various challenges they throw at you, honing your skills and allowing some competition in attaining the best result you can on each Scenario.

In Defend the Homeworld, you’ll take command of a beleaguered Pranast United, known to Sins II players as the Minor Faction responsible for the invention and proliferation of the Argonev Starbase across Trader territories. Not everybody is happy to trade for their advanced defensive specialty technology however, and three different factions are now attacking Pranast United controlled territory, aiming for their homeworld and the treasures they hope to raid from the data vaults there.

This Scenario is unwinnable: Pranast United are doomed to endure waves upon waves of increasingly dangerous enemy fleets, from three different directions. Although they start with a sturdy fleet led by Capital Ships and many Harka Heavy Cruisers, there is little breathing space between waves to develop their economic might to fund technological advances, bolster planetary defenses or launch new ships to help combat these constant incursions.

Defeat is inevitable, and the challenge here is to keep the enemy from eliminating your homeworld from the game for as long as possible.

They say that the best defense is a good offense, and you’ll certainly attain better results if you take the fight to your enemy when they’re engaging the Starbases around your perimeter worlds. But you can’t be everywhere at once, and as the Scenario progresses, you’ll need to make tough decisions about which worlds are to be defended, which are to be sacrificed, and where to spend your valuable and limited fleet resources.

We encourage you to compete for the best time, and come post your scores on our various socials to show the community how well you’ve done!