Help - Precursor Systems

[giuseppe]

Hi,

In Star Wolves 3, I've escorted the Doc to the Precursor systems, battled some Aliens, and am currently trying to leave through the second portal, which is guarded by an Alien Frigate.

The first ten times I tried, I hadn't been using missiles up until that point of the game, so I failed miserably.

Then, I went all the way back to a save game from 2-3 hours earlier, and stocked up on missiles (well, the best I could see were the Hellbounds) and Aegis shields for my mothership, thinking I could absorb enough damage to let the fighters do their jobs with the missiles when the Professor got the frigate's shields down. But still no joy.

My question: what is the best way to get past this stage? I have been following the scripted missions all the way through without taking time to do other things - is it a case that my pilots are just too weak? Do I need to pick Joseph up and then go off and grind?

At the moment my mothership is too weak to withstand concentrated fire (2 Aegis shields and 1 health regenerator), so just as my pilots are about to get the Frigate, my mothership blows up.

Help, please!