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@dianabialaskahansen2972 yes mousing over the weapons in the army view shows you what they do. Spears + Shields gives the defense from shields and allows the 3rd rank of a group to fight. They also get increased power when being charged but not when charging. Most units get a power bonus on charge only. Some like lances get bigger bonuses and great weapons always have a bonus to power. If you are not surein the army view or just mousing over a units equipment and traits, it will give you a pop-up tool tip with more info.

That is very helpful. Shift X and X does the same for your own faction as well. You can even press it while moving ranged units position to ensure they are in range at max distance. Very cool tip.

@tizianomerello6530 I haven't tried ranked yet, but I did test out the multi-player with a friend. It has a custom army builder with units based on 500 or 1000 point totals. It played extremely well and felt like a pick-up game of table top at my local game store, but much faster due to the digital nature of the game. My criticism of this early version of the game are few, and it's bound to get better over time. The ability to more clearly see if and when charges are legal is probably the biggest as many times it looks like you should but can't, or looks like the enemy can't but does. Charging and specifically being able to charge the flanks and rear are the most critical to winning fights so it would be the most useful information that currently is clear as mud on edge cases.

@@thenoseplays2488 thx a lot, I hope they they make 1500 points too, feel like there are not many units in 1000😅

There is a custom game mode that may allow this. I am also unaware of mods from the workshop yet, but if the devs allow it I'm certain there will be plenty more options down the road. Game is still technically early in development 0.58v and is barely a year old on steam.

I would have to say the silent is the one that is most esthetically pleasing to me, but the defect has probably been the strongest and most reliable. Ironclad was my least favorite but lately I have had some crazy runs with them that have been fun and old iron britches is growing on me.

Thanks for the commentary! TBH I have only played a handful of games with the UC, like maybe 6, and two of those where on camera. If I am not mistaken this is from my first series with them where i discovered the tactic I use to great effect and outline in a later video series titled something like revisiting the UC 1 year later. I am personally not a huge fan of the hacking systems in the game. I find them very opaque and not particularly fun to interact with. They provide too little or way too much depending on what you are doing. The hacking tactic that forces the enemy to use a terrible ground battle strategy is kind of OP imo, and the constant BS you deal with once pirates and other factions start hacking your systems with little counter play other than to just wipe them out was not enjoyable to me. I do like using it as the UC because of their specialization, but I found in most later play throughs I prefer to disable the UC DLC unless I want to use them in game. As a result I am sure there are many hacking improvements I could make to my games, but honestly I think Amplitudes implementation of the system as a whole was a big miss for me, and I just don't use it much, and don't play the UC but on rare occasions where I want a really passive game hiding in the shadows so to speak. I know some people enjoyed it though so hopefully they find your commentary on UC hacking tactics to be useful. If you haven't already checked it out, look up my video on using boarding pods as an anti-invasion tactic. I theory crafted the idea long ago and actually was able to pull it off on camera in one of my videos. It was a pretty short clip from a longer game, but really worked better than I expected. Good luck on your future ES2 escapades.

@@thenoseplays2488 first of all thanks for Replying.. Hey mom i am famous NOSE! Heart my Comment!! first 1:42:34 your 'test' your 11/15 starting movement bc you moved to the capital to retrofit.. Retrofit doesn't reset all your movements. 2nd sadly your Eco, 'snowball' hurt your bc your Capital is made 'Shadow's Only..' the Main aim for the Race is land into a system w/ strategics w/ 4/5 planets and get that to 3 quickly and Jump to a distant star cluster, (you can do this in 3 Separate Star Clusters of Map) - 9 Sanctuary Max- This way when you spot a Enemy Capital. You can hack and steal there resources.-- on aggressive empires i would 100% Accelerate 100% of the time. if they want to find you they need be turn 200 to get the endgame military tech. Personally i like to be evil, for Cravers i turn there government to pacifist same w/ Hissho.. so they can't wage wars w/ other people until the next election. If someone is attacking another capital you can 'cause' uprising and making them have a reduce ground force where the reduction to ground units actually join the attacking force. 'rebels'.. You can assassinate the governor where they don't give Governor Traits for 10 turns.. this can Cripple Vodyani players w/ the 2.5% bonus to all FDSI empire wide crap or if you scouted they had a bad start, Change there government so there law can't produce free Essence. Back to the topic of Manpower unused bandwidth is king to producing it. it has 2 - 1 ratio from CAP to Conversion... 2 F 2 Industry seems nice for early game. But 2 points into Bandwidth = 66(76) republic- bW at lvl 2. this is actually 33/39 Manpower power per turn. Food on the other-hand rate implements Food * 10% *-75% = UC manpower rate. I like lvl 3 to Food and Production.. w/ Republic this becomes 2 and and dust this bc 20/20... Consider this race as the 'watchers of the galaxy' -'thread weavers' Defensive Chaos control all over the System and watch others destroy one another.. This is my version of Snowball.. Chaos from the Shadows. Anyhue hope this helps. Later Mate.

Colonizers have many valuable builds depending on your faction. Due to their low cost and, in some cases high degree of flexibility they can be made to fit many roles. My ultimate colonizer build has to be what I dubed the road runner. It was a design I originally tested using the hissso faction, but later adapted it to all my play throughs. The basic concept is to build 2nor 3 colonizers ships with no modules except fully fitted with engines. Then set them to auto explore and rush the tech that allows them to travel between systems without star lanes. What this does is passively uncovers the entire map at a sometimes staggering rate, and the AI and pirates do not spawn aggressive fleets till mid game at default settings. Some factions benefit more from this due to higher number of support slots or faster starting engines, but ever since the probe hack was nerfed it is my go to for map exploration.

The short answer is...it's complicated. The vanilla game has a very opaque system that seems almost random at times. They are not, but without perfect knowledge, you can't really make decisions well. Some mods have tried to correct this, but I haven't used them much to know how well they do. Here are some "facts" that I believe are still true. 1. There is a small damage buff for having more flotillas than your opponent. 2. With the exception of bombers, there are limits to flotillas being able to engage. You can generally only attack a flotilla 1 lane away...and only if you have weapons facing them. Forward mounted weapons seem to have something like a 90 arc to front, and broadside weapons have a 90 arc to side. Ranges are theoretically always considered long-range for damage and accuracy, but there has been visual evidence to the contrary when observing the battles, so it's hard to say for sure. 3. It is impossible to predict the movement or facing of your ships, making engagements really feel weird from time to time. This is because the game decides that based not just on your tactic but also your opponents tactic, which you do not know in advance of the battle and can not change once it's locked in. This can lead to a ship full of broadside weapons that never turn them to fave the enemy. It's infuriating when it happens, but it does. Enemy ai is very predictable over time and you can scout their most used tactics in the advanced battle set up screen. This can allow you with diligence to learn bad matches and avoid using certain tactics against certain opponents.

@@thenoseplays2488 Thanks a lot .

Try taking the lens cover protective glass off your camera. Some have suggested this fixes the issue as well.

They supposedly block a pressure vent or something that causes the phone to have issues when changing altitude/pressure.

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Yup, a mana node is needed unless you build a specialized one in the city tab. The spell jammer is unlocked by your tier 3 city upgrade and can replace any other pre-existing tile building regardless of type or terrain.

I am learning a lot about just how different some of the civics play. Very interested in doing a deep dive on industrial army soon.

Yeah rulers with resurgence are actually the least risky to lose because as long as you win the fight they come back with 1 hp. Heros who don't have that are often lost to the crypt and have to resurrected into undead heros

The lack of magic damage in a feudal army can be an issue when facing enemies who have a lot of physical defenses. Their banner man was the mvp of that fight.

There is definitely a case to be made that we should have just taken them out...but rushing vassals does provide its own advantages, especially as a feudal empire with uniters order trait I took. I will discuss this more in part 4 of the series. Very frustrating to have all those food tiles around our capital which no direction to really be able to expand into with the growth.

There will be more for sure. I will also be making a slight adjustment to my volume. Getting obs to record proper sound for yt has always been my bane but I was fairly happy with how close I got the volume this time on the first go

@@thenoseplays2488 Yeah well, the volume was extremely low, I hope you can do something about it :)

Yeah. When I do test recordings and listen on my pc it sounds fine for me, but when I upload to yt or stream and listen on my phone once the video posts, it sounds very different. I should be able to adjust obs settings easy enough without hopefully blowing out someone's ears by going too far with it