Guard Posts often have 5x damage multipliers. Fighters do 6x as much damage to Polycrystal hulls (meaning Bombers). Other ships can be thrown into a fleet ball with everything else and thrown around. It can be worth keeping unusual ships like that in a separate control group for finer control. Examples include Space Planes, Protector Starships, Neinzul Combat Carriers, Neinzul Tigers, Maws, and Powerslavers. Some ship types are total gamebreakers that can do totally crazy things with good unit control. Try to be done with the assault before then. Once you assault an AI homeworld, you have 10 minutes before a massive AI force spawns. Starships cost an enormous amount of metal for the firepower you get, but if you're careful with them, you'll rarely lose them. If you don't go kill them, they'll bide their time until they think they can take one of your planets, then attack.

However, if there are no human-controlled planets next to AI warp gates, the AI will send the ships in the waves to one of its own planets. If you have enough defenses, they'll usually get wiped out without doing too much damage. Waves will normally go to one of your planets that's adjacent to an AI warp gate. Enable all the expansions, sure, but stick to simple unit types and don't turn on a bajillion AI plots and minor factions right off the bat.ĭestroying AI warp gates gives you some control over where the AI sends waves. Then my fleets go into a group that reserves a little metal for emergency turret placement.ĭon't turn on everything at once. I like to put big projects in a control group that only spends metal if I'm close to my cap. You can even put metal spending thresholds on control groups. but selecting that group will not select the dock. If you put a space dock in a control group, everything it builds will be in the same group. Read some Let's Plays and After Action Reports.Ĭontrol groups are awesome.

All of it the final portion is a mini-campaign that will cover a lot of important stuff.

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