wiped out an entire hegie fleet in 1 day

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Ah mission 1 of the 5th campaign. I was looking forward to it. A culmination of various missions perhaps? New story? New weapons? I was unsure if anything would be shiney and new so I studied my briefing carefully. Forces were pretty evenly match. 2 fleets each, heggies in the middle and we were assaulting from both sides. I picked bottom fleet for no other reason than I liked the name of a cruiser squad. I took command of a cruiser group (which I prefer over carriers) and my ship was devistator class. It was the first mission so I wasn't expecting much interesting to happen. My orders were somthing like "assault destroyer X". Feh. A measy destroyer. Whatever though I went along my merry way sending my squad in a nice diamond formation. About 1/2 there suddenly a blip popped up on radar. Being a sneaky bastard I hit pause and went the nav screen. It appeared to be about 5 cap ships (some of the ships didn't show up on my rader because they were out of range but they show up on nav screen) engaging another friendly cruiser group. Well naturally I felt the urge to steal their kills and lined up my ships to have nav points just behind every ship in the group. Except for one that was a bit behind the rest. Probally damaged I thought so I zoomed in expecting to see a tiger class cinder box or somthing equally worthless. Suprise. It was one of hte two 850kt carriers in the campain. On the FIRST DAY. Naturally I decided to take care of this one myself. I moved my little nav point over and unpaused the game while clicking auto. Proof I appear right behind it athenas and graisers blasing. The carrier makes a good impression of being suprised and starts trying to disgorge flighters which my PD systems turn into confetti. I switch all my weapins to auto and start managing engineering because the "auto damage" selection dosn't work worth a flip. I'm working on keeping my athenas pumping and my graisers as a 2ndary priority. Because there were several other cruisers in the area I'm getting fairly well pounded but the enemy fleet is sandwitched between 2 cruiser squads so the red blips start disappearing fast. I'm amazed as I watch the athenas blow the crap out of the hull of the carrier and for some reason its shields suddenly plummet down to 20. I begin giving full reverse and shut down power to all my non essential systems so everything available is going into my graisers (I had run out of athenas). I pull my squad out of the area and send them after some other red blips that were moving in to intercept. I'm pounding the carrier and its down to its last 20% and I'm afraid It'll jump out and escape. Then I see two red dots closing in. Both enemy cruisers but damaged. My squad is handling the destroyers and some left over fighters and seem to have forgotten about the cruisers. I'm contemplating the dangers to my squad of pulling them off and leaving active enemies in their rear so they can help me out (I'm down to about 60% hull at this point..carrier to about 5) as graisers don't fare too well against Nike's at close range and my PD systems were pretty well trashed from the various explosions and such happenign around me. Suddenly the carrier goes up. Foom. Yay for fusion reactors I guess. Both cruisers are immolated. I was 35k from the carrier and most of my sub systems were knocked out. They were both within 5 or so of it and they were totally blown away. The smoking hulks drifed around and I realized there were no more red blips. Zero. Interesting. I end hte mission. One casuality. A destroyer that wasn't in my squad. I also notice the entire hegie 2nd fleet is gone. Not just all KIA but totally removed from the forces listing. Poof. My score was a modest 2700 or so. I got some shiney command medal for it too which is amusing because I got over 3500 on the last mission I took out a carrier and didn't get jack. Oh well. Love this game. So fun.