What can change the nature of a man?

[Medicine Man]

WarLocke:
Concerning Homeworld -- There is a very easy way to punch a hole in that defensive sphere. The AI of the enemy capital ships in that mission are very single minded. If you send out a party of scouts and 'tag' a couple of the ion frigates you will draw between 5-9 of the enemy into pursuit. The catch is that they will attempt to attack and kill the scouts regardless of what else you throw at them. Once you have got a chunk of the enemy fleet following, you can retreat your scouts behind the mothership and have your capital ships burn the pursuers to slag. Personally, I prefer to send out the salvage corvettes to intercept as many as I can. I managed to capture nearly twenty ships of various types during that mission.

I found this mission very unusual as the AI is rather good at reacting to attacks in all the previous parts of the game. He's just a real dozy bastard in this one mission. Poor scripting maybe?

You should try finishing it one day, WarLocke. The last two missions are quite hectic -- you need to be quite strong to survive them.