Terra Invicta (HF) E22: Alien fleets incoming (and HF securing Europe)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2022
- Expansion around Jupiter continues as humanity branches out from the inner solar system for the first time, brimming with confidence.
There is a lot to be happy about - on Earth, the EU is being brought under control, in space the economy is stabilising and the fleet is winning a series of victories.
So, we think, it must be time to advance our plans and seek new counters to the Hydra threat.
Either the Hydra heard something of what we had planned, or they took offense at our Jupiter expansion because....well you'll see.
Note: There is a slight continuity error in this video - two clips (two days apart ingame) are in the wrong order. Cutting room floor error that I don't think anyone would notice but marking it here in case anyone was confused. - เกม
At some point you'd think the servants would outlaw walking on bridges for their agents
But then the back alleys start
And then the sudden vertical movements inside cars. And involuntary defenestrations!
It would never, and how can you serve in such bonds?
They should add a window scene in the next patch as possible alternative. Just to keep up with the times.
heh the second a servant agent walks into moscow max is already there to toss them out a window
@@Perkelenaattori An Easter egg if they’re assassinated in Russia? :)
Don't you as a super wealthy clandestine operator with a team of security travel by back alley? It's all the rage.
Odds: One sided
Logistics: Spreadsheeted
Xenos: Trolled
It’s Perun’in time
My favorite part was when he Peruned all over the alien fleets.
I just imagine a pile of max's discarded guns clogging up the river.
Lol. Maybe form an artificial reef?
Max' annual performance interview.
"Max,. we'd like to start off by saying you are by far the most crucial employee HF has and your contributions have saved humanity ten times over by now..."
"But...?"
"Several rivers have significantly changed course in your mission area by virtue of discarded weapons and tools. Please, can you stop tossing your weapons over the nearest bridge, we're close to world domination anyways, you really don't have to be sneaky about it anymore."
@@PeterJavi I'm dying🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@lelouchvibritannia2300 Just like all the rivers Max clogged up.
The way you describe the upcoming battle for the Jovian system is so exciting. I picture the absolutely brutal operational tempo for the crews in battlefleet Jupiter. Hotbunking. Constantly running simulations and manning every station even while docked. They keep pushing themselves knowing that reinforcements will arrive soon. And construction workers working like mad to finish battlestations to buy themselves just that much more time. While every second humanity's current largest fleet of warships draws closer. Hoping to finally turn the tide of the war.
"Give 'em hell boys, I'll see you in 7 weeks. Out"
-Hans Castillo
Don't forget the inevitable repair crews spending every available moment crawling over damaged systems.
@Neuttah probably yelling at the captains to stop blasting their engines at full power for extended periods of time
I d watch that movie.
@@sampurtle2953 Bemoaning technical faults that start occurring due to expedited maintenance and restocking procedures.
Guessing they'd be pretty gung-ho about it, for the most part.
The Jovian Alamo
Sounds like a classic 90's RTS.
In 2039, the combined American, Russian, Indian and commonwealth fleets burn for Jupiter and its moons whilst crews work day an night constructing fortifications on IO base. The attempt at an FOB to punch back against alien influence in the outer solar system has backfired, with a massive alien fleet assembling around Ganymede.
Evaluating that this unprecedented concentration of force would be nigh insurmountable, command has dictated that all efforts should be put towards intercepting incoming xenos vessels.
as the days till disaster tick down one by one, the stage is set for:
'The Jovian campaign: second theatre of the Hydra war '
This sounds like tiberian war and honestly it does fit. The GDI with a red paint job, the alien simps with their insane leader and the ominous alien threat looming.
Man just imagine the kind of games you could make with history like that
@@dean_l33 so the unholy alliance between nod and GDI in order to fight off the second scrin invasion is what your proposing
Why did I read that with the Battle/dogfight 360 announcer guys voice going on in my head?
@@crocidile90 Because that's exactly how those episodes started.
The transfer of ships meant Sydney was now the only functioning HF battleship in Earth orbit. On one of the decks, the crew posted a sign: "Sydney vs the Aliens."
Or more fitting if it survives “Fuck the odds”
@@comentnine1574 Jesus Christ dude the pressure on the jobian fleet is insane, the pressure on the reinforcement fleet is just crazy, but the pressure on the Sydney having to hold for five God damn months alone against like a hundred times its number as the only mobile military asset defending Earth .... Jesus.....
@@anarchyandempires5452 That’s nothing compared to what the NAC Washington went through in centres of Gravity.
@@comentnine1574 He's referencing "Enterprise vs Japan" from 1942
@@polygondwanaland8390 And I’m referencing Washington from Frontlines Centres of Gravity.
You could rename the ships in BF-Jupiter "Faith", "Hope", and "Charity" after the three outdated Gloster Gladiator fighters that successfully defended Malta from the entire Italian air force during WW2
Having the marines go out and raid the alien bases while the battlecruisers attempt to pick off as many alien ships as they can at Jupiter before they merge into a doom fleet sounds like the best plan of action to me!
Add to that sending off the less mobile science and colony boats. Might get lucky and they'll distract a few of those victors on a merry chase around the Jovian system.
May also consider splitting the two battleships if you're fighting lighter ships at first.
By how much they put on Welfare "Charity" doesn't seem to far fetched.
in navel tradition renaming ships is bad luck
Of course you made a spreadsheet. I’m starting to think I’m not diligent enough to play this game.
in my defence it took 4 minutes and wasn't really needed - just how I think
@@PerunGamingAU just add it tot he piles of spreed sheets made for every major miltary power you talk about on your other channel (hench how i found you)
"It"s gonna take forever to research" - *75k research literally takes half a year to research for him*
I mean, half a year is a lot for a research slot.
@@garr_inc But when you consider its something like weaponizing anti matter or fusion reaction, it's really impressive how fast they are rushing it
@@dean_l33 Absolutely fair enough.
Wait till you see some of the best late game engines cost 100k and 80k respectively
@@garr_inc Meanwhile many other playthoughs are living at less than 5k science per month afaik.
Ah yes, 2038, the year humanity will set up a fusion powered base on IO.
Necessity is the mother of invention and sometimes you just need a fusion powered, coil gun defended, citadel on Io.
On the other hand if in 1939 you would have told people that in 10 y time we would have stable fighter jets and computers, in 15 y supersonic aircraft, precise long range ballistic missiles and artificial satellites, and in 30 a full telecom satellite array, intercontinental ballistic missiles and people walking on the moon they would find it hard to believe. Wars and fierce competition bring a lot of progress.
@@mxyz6888 Technology seems to have platued. (I say as I witnessed the coming of the information age in like 10-15 years)
@@mxyz6888 It's not always war though. Modern progress in tech is not war driven. Neither was steam industrial age.
@@CountingStars333 it is certainly a catalyst for progress. A great deal of resources are spend on research, and a lot of new tech is 'field tested' in sometimes premature builds. As for the recent tech evolution one could make the case that a lot of the primary research was done during the cold war and what we witnessed was merely the civilian application of that tech.
I imagine what caused the large alien reaction is breaking the Inner-Outer System barrier and having an Outer System foothold for the first time. For most factions this would, presumably, mark their ability to gain access to their wormholes and thus victory conditions.
That would explain why the Aliens dropped two armies on me when I was laying low. It was right after I built Bases on Jupiter's moons.
@@alexandercaires5921 I mean, they dropped a number of them on Perun playthrough when he was in laying low phase
I’m currently at 2038 on my run with some IO bases (though not nearly as high tech as Perun) and the most they’ve launched at me so far is 3k. Which goes to earth, bombards a few places or blows up a space station and leaves again. My theory there is that they have a foothold on earth that is currently stalemated. Due to naval dominance and I keep jumping their assault carriers. I rarely win but they burn so much fuel the carriers then retreat. If I wiped out the alien nation I’m pretty sure they would go back to fleet actions.
I think what triggers the Aliens landing armies on Earth might be the ability of the pro-Alien factions to found the Alien Nation. I kept sabotaging projects of both the Protectorate and Servants, leading to no Alien armies on Earth well into the 2030s.
"Were not going to forget about the escorting ship... this time"
The fallen shall be remember as the world's finest
Seeing "burn harder xeno scum" and "all the cool kids spend their dV" as station names just cracks me up
RIP original Super Emu. Gone but not forgotten!!! (except during that battle 😂)
Jokes aside, I am so excited to watch the grand Jovian campaign. The fate of Earth will depend on the brave men and women rallying to defeat the enemy before they gather as one. Next episode will be epic!
One of these days we will stop dragging Perun for that.
But I can't remember when that will be.
"Super Emu. Gone but not forgotten!!! (except during that battle"
glorious
Fantastic story line, really cool what can come up naturally in Terra Invicta. The idea of a Jovian Campaign which is probably the first major campaign of the (First?) Human-Xenos War definitely sounds like something for the history books.
Perun, your fortified station in the Jovian system has 2 shipyards. I suggest using it to spam out quick to build corvettes and frigates to add the pd and firepower.
it's building a new class of pd monitor. almost as fast to build but twice as many mounts
This episode: Actual goosebumps.
I feel like I'm watching the build-up to Helm's Deep. The prelude to Midway. The opening days of the battle of Narva (1700).
Perun, you're a madlad and whatever happens; whatever the outcome, this is going to be epic.
Keep doing the great work. Suffer not the Xenos to live
I was watching this at a student center at my college, sitting next to some random guy. His friend left and then he asked me if this video was Perun. You've got fans!
Thank you! I was craving my daily Terra Invicta fix.
The holding action in the Jovian system seems so epic in potential. Looking forward to Spercheios, Thermopylae and Leonidas popping up as base and fleet names in the system. And fingers crossed history repeats in fiction with a successful Plataea battle to end the Jovian campaign.
2 battlecruisers against 28.....bloody hell...
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” - Robert F. Kennedy
The battle for the Jovian system will be legendary!
Wow, the absolute quality of anticipation you built at the end of the episode, the fate of humanity resting on 2 battleships planets away from any reinforcements defending outposts in the shadow of Jove himself. Thank you for this episode, your descriptions are as always marvellous to listen to. :)
God, the massive fleet battles in this game are going to be amazing, trying to wrangle like 12 or even 20 different ships against an equal number of opponents is going to be a glorious sight to see.
He's outnumbered 14:1 in number of vessels alone; By tonnage that disparity widens. By combat power the disparity becomes comically vast. The Jovian campaign literally hinges on 2 battleships sinking their weight in shipping tonnage 3 times over till HF-01 arrives in Apr, then somehow fight a running battle with 5 times their number.
Either Perun pulls a Alexander the Great, or his nascent space power dies and he yields control over the outer Sol system for the next decade to the aliens.
@@EnDianNeo It does help that the aliens are currently using the tried and true strategy of action movie goons making a line to fight the heroes one by one, that's unexpectedly polite coming from xeno scum!
@@scorpixel1866 While that tactic seems nice on paper. You have to remember that most of the smaller fleets may try to run before they congregate. That’s precious time and delta v Perun simply doesn’t have available. Sure he’s stockpiles of it, but the Hydra have it in droves. It’s simply a war of attrition that original comment is making note of. To put 14 to 1 in perspective, he has roughly a less than 10% chance of wholly succeeding with the battleships he has. That and his defenses are not concrete.
Ganymede will take half a year and IO will take at least a couple months. Which may be just enough to hold the Jovian system. All-in-All I’m excited to see the end result and the glorious combat and maneuvers he’ll pull off until he either succeeds or dies trying.
@@RagingRavioli22 the Battle of Jupiter in This Universe Will be a Midway Equivalent,Defeating the Aliens on Jupiter Would Put a Stop on their Ofensive operations for a while,As Also Securing Humanity foothold on the Outer Solar System..
"There's Ganymede in the background."
My brain: "They are engaging in orbit!"
"Who Fired!?"
"Not our concern! Spread out and form a line, 500 meters!"
God that episode was fucking exciting and mind melting, Expanse is fricking gooooof
@@zagreus1249 the mystery of it all. Seeing the UN marines charging yet clearly firing behind them, the martians spreading out and then, just fade to silence. Bobby bleeding out in her armor, blood snowflakes, and then that face, that horrifying face that peers down at her before it explodes.
Ugh the whole show was so friggin good, but that episode was something else entirely.
@@Kodasa_Sinclair that part still bugs me
They can clearly see that they are firing at something else yet they become soooo panicked that they assume that they are being fired upon by UN troops.
Other than it was amazing especially when they look up and see the battle going on in orbit and how the solar shades start to break apart due to damage and falling down onto the colony.
@@zagreus1249 well, they were staring at each other for quite a time, ready to fire if other side tries to do something funny
@@zagreus1249 See I don't think they fired on the UN marines. The point of it is that it all happens so fast, and we as viewers are not given an omnipotent view like in some other shows. Instead we're as in the dark as a PTSD suffering Bobby, and it makes the gaslighting of her that much more effective because we don't have the full picture either. The MCRN gaslights us as much as it does her. Much like her we know something isn't right, we saw the drone, saw the 7th man who wasn't wearing a vac suit, but we aren't given all the pieces.
I very much appreciate that you call out the battle cruiser tactic of fast enough to out run anything they can't out gun and powerful enough to overwhelm anything else
“I made a spreadsheet”
That’s why you’re the best man
Someone call The Templin Institute, they're going to want to see this.
This near hopeless attrition defense of the Jupiter sector, whilst praying for reinforcements to arrive, not even knowing it will be enough. Communication to earth: 30-60 minutes one way.
That's the kind of desperation that could fit in the warhammer 40 k universe. It reminds me of the "Battlefleet Gothic Armada" games.
Perfect for forging an epic story, and amazing that the AI in this game is up to the task of putting even Perun in tough situations.
Edge of my seat, can't wait for the next episode
"Every time I see protectorate or servant agent with stats I don't like" - too long. "Every time I see protectorate or servant agent" - it's enough :D
Not even an agent. "Every time I see a Protectorate or Servant" is good enough.
Looking at the size and spread of xeno forces coming to play at Jupiter and listening to the campaign plan, goosebumps. Pretty epic story unfolding - the First Battle for the Jovian System is soon upon us. The defenses *have* to hold.
The battle for the Jovian system sounds much like the Battle of Midway in WW2. If you can hold there, you will start to turn the tide of war.
I think the aliens are running low on Exotics and other resources so they need to secure their mines in Jovian system and the asteroids. You are also sending marines to take over their bases.
The fact that they didnt build another mothership and doom fleet shows they are desparate, and couldnt wait to build up massive fleets.
Keep the pressure ongoing. Good job so far.
This game is terrifying. I feel at any moment you can screw yourself by not considering what victor can kill your fleets by doom stacking
Your upload schedule is perfect - every day no matter how depressing my work day has been i come home to a fantastic series that is engaging and immerses my mind. Taking the edge off, it makes the rest of my evening better as well.
Now that I've actually tried playing a couple of campaigns I'm looking forward to a future guide series, what you're doing looks nearly impossible
I wont lie he did really good in the first phase and controlling the opposition
The power of spreadsheets.
One single battleship guarding earth? You'll have to call it Yamato from now on.
Or the Gunstar from The Last Starfighter? Yeah, im kinda showing my vintage by dredging that up, but it was 6 y/o me's favourite spaceship.
@@Smegwulf that isn't an actual battleship, imo.
Yeah, the aliens are actually really easy to beat as long as they're wielding mostly missiles/torpedoes.
The exception is when sometimes they hold to their missiles until they're close and then loose the whole salvo, have lost a bunch of ships to that.
31:00 Dude, the amount of sheer effort and work you put into every episode is mind-blowing! You kinda made yourself a name with this series, in my opinion. Wish you the best for the future! :D Not totally unselfish from me though, because I am addicted to this game and I hope you keep posting content to it (without burning yourself out, please be careful about that!). :)
Yeah, at least he doesn't have a ridiculously comprehensive series about the strategic, logistic and geopolitical aspects of a "Special Military Action" underway in Eastern Europe on another channel to take up any of his time with ludicrous amounts of research or anything.../s ( plus a fair amount of travelling on top of all that as well, going off what he says from time to time in those vids). The dude is COMMITED to churning out bulk quality content. Like, intravenous meals and shitting in a bucket at his desk levels of commited!
Seriously, Perun? If you're reading this, do you EVER sleep? Maybe he's a Mechanicus Priest that got yeeted back to our time in a disastrous warp-crossing mishap or something? If so, this game is a retro classic for him! Which explains why he's the only TH-camr I've seen not crash n burn playing this.
I'm a simple creature, I see new Terra Invicta video by Perun, I watch.
No one else (that I've found) comes close to the level of suspense combined with hope you've achieved in this playthrough. Tomorrow is going to be wild, can't wait!
The next few months are going to be brutal for the crews of Battlefleet Jupiter. Hold on, boys, the cavalry's coming!
It seems like you got your wish, though. If all goes well, you're going to be able to defeat the enemy's fleet in detail and take advantage of their absence to strike at their bases. If successful, you'll have seriously attrited the Alien capacity to make war both by reducing their income as well as destroying their very serious investment of resources in fleet power.
If.
The reduction in resources is pretty negligible given their bases in the outer solar system. The main advantage would be the distance. Destroying the refuelling stations would force larger alien ships to stay out near Saturn since they don’t have the delta V to get to the inner solar system and continue operating. The Jovian campaign will buy breathing room to further expand the space industry free from Alien intervention. Then slamming into Saturn with a HF doom fleet is likely the right call but only once you’re out competing the aliens in terms of resources. Something that you can only realistically do if you they’re trapped in the outer solar system and the servants / protectorate have no real fleet presence.
It's an all-in tactic. If it works out he wins big.
Man, this campaign just turned into something like a scenario out of The Expanse or some other sci-fi movie and I love it. The fist major battle in humanity's first stellar war is about to begin. Good luck and Godspeed.
Man, the Jovian campaign is going to be !!FUN!!
God damn super hyped for the Jovian Campaign now.
I did not expect that the aliens would be trying to counter your moves while also have this significant a fleet advantage, yet your cunning and boldness will likely see them punished.
I think the aliens producing ships without exotic matter can only mean one thing, The aliens are afraid!
The Battle of the Jovian System is going to be the Humanities First Battle of Midway.
It's just not fair :D I have expanded into saturn hoping to get some fissile sites, and whole of Saturn system has highest fissile site of 4,2 and second largest of 1,1. I have insanely low fissile income since absolutely nothing spawned in the inner system, and Perun here just gets more fissiles on Callisto then I have in my whole system... Oh well, hydrogen engines it is :D
Good luck have fun!
Perun, with the creation of taskforce ANZAC surely we get a kiwi-class marine transport or a moa-class battleship as the kiwis pitch in for the war effort
Can’t wait to see how the Jovian Campaign goes. I’m picturing HF-02 fighting a desperate campaign against all odds, they are on the ropes and it looks like all might be lost, but out of the darkness of space HF-01 comes roaring in guns blazing to save the day.
This is shaping up to be like The Pegasus showing up at New Colonia in BSG, the Prometheus showing up in Antartica in SG1, the ride of the Rohirrim at Pelanor fields.
“There may come a day when the courage of men fails… An hour of Ayys and shattered ships when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day!”
The stories that these grand strategy games naturally develop are just fantastic.
With Max being so busy, I wonder when the insurance companies ingame will start putting an "'Acts of Max" clause or 2 in there to stop having to cover the servant losses
While I know you had no way of knowing this would happen... I am still thinking very uncharitable thoughts about you all the same right now, lol. My son (yup, named Max) also watches these vids and now "Acts of Max!" is his official, shouty frickin' tagline. I've heard it like 6 times in the last 10 mins or so, dammit! Its not like he's some precocious lil 8 year old running around like a cute superhero fan, NOOOOOOOOO.... HE'S FUCKING 21, DRUNK AND RUNNING AROUND LIKE AN EMBARRASSING SUPERHERO FAN, FFS! OH GREAT, NOW HE HAS A NERF GUN TOO. Have a nice day, good sir and fuck you very much. 🙂
Not only is Plasma invulnerable to PD, but its muzzle velocity is also VASTLY better than Coil/Rail guns, meaning it's MUCH more accurate against smaller ships which can maneuver on a dime and dodge most of your Coil shots, until they are at very close range.
Sounds like the Jupiter campaign is going to put battlecruiser doctrine to the test in ways that WWII Germany only wished it could.
Thought for the day: "Save & Destroy."
Not gonna lie hearing Harrow and then immediately Alecto as battlecruiser names activated my locked tomb brainworms hard
OMG, thank you I thought I was the only one
PURGE THE XENOS
yes i cud not spel i wos gowing to sey that a epsod a go
@@solwilkinson8551 you still cannot spell it seems like
@@wolfy1398 yes i bad
Almost midnight in NSW and this comes out. Looking like I’m gonna hold off on sleep for a bit
that dreadnought is so big and slow that with mag guns its actually easier to kill than the small ones :D
What an incredible series with incredible strategy and insane reliability
If the next episode isn’t called “By Jove” it’s a missed opportunity
I like how complex space combat is, that you have to plan operatons months ahead.
If you look at the base/station stats on the left, you can see the CMD points the alien bases have - I believe its lik16-18 on the ones I have looked at - I imagine their home base is much higher. So, being a few marines less than them, I can see why you had only a 20% chance on an assault - you definitely need vast numerical superiority to easily win. You also might want to consider repair bay - that MAY repair your marines, so if you do fail, you can much more quickly try again.
Looks like a solid plan to defeat the aliens around Jupiter bit by bit before they can form into a doomstack and the whole system is lost.
Sounds like it’s time to build some bigger ships of the line.
Some 'titans' one might call them.
I feel like the success of failure of this entire campaign is going to hinge on if Perun can win this Jovian Campaign.
If he can slam this fleet piecemeal he suddenly had the punching power to drive the aliens off several bases with 2/3rds of their fleet power having been crushed and needing replacement.
From there he can use his Super Emus to mop up forward bases making the Mothership fleet ever less threatening and by then antimatter and plasma should be online.
The report on Hydra Biowarfare implies 'Doctor S.' is a reference for something. If it was a 'she' and 'Doctor V' I could see an XCOM reference, but I don't know any 'Doctor S.'
The most engaged I've been with a series for the past 8 years I've been on TH-cam. *chef's kiss*
these vids are equal entertainment and education. If you take requests a playlist of short videos on ships at various tech levels would be good :)
The aliens are clearly worried about Jupiter wanting to clear it out at a cost of exposing a vulnerability in their inner bases. I can't wait for the battle around Jupiter a grand campaign where heroes will fall and devils run when good men go to war or something along those lines. I do love this game and I do hope we won't fight aliens until after 2300.
I do enjoy how the realities of physics in space combat, point defense is your new god
To paraphrase Churchill...
We may now picture this great Fleet, with its marine transports and battlecruisers, burning quickly out of Earth Orbit, squadron by squadron, scores of gigantic castles of steel wending their way across the emptiness of space, like giants bowed in anxious thought. We may picture them again as Jupiter neared, eighteen miles of warships running at high speed and in absolute blackness through the outer solar system, bearing with them into the broad waters of the Jovian system the safeguard of considerable affairs…Earth's ships were in space.
Great video again. Looking forward at the Jupiter campaign. In your next video could you show the state of Earths climate. I wonder after the HF clean energy studies how the climate is doing.
Came for the content, stayed for Perun and his colorful commentary.
perun posting TI is the highlight of my day
Best of luck to the brave souls on these ships. They risk their lives for the sake of everyone.
The anticipation is murder, I wish you the best for the Jovian campaign, Morning will come, Victory is close! So Say We All.
And as always, thank you for doing this great series
Thanks for all the work you've put into this series, Perun. I am really enjoying the videos and the game both.
Looking forward when you take advantage of Jupiter natural occurring Antimatter in Jupiter interface orbit. The Jovian area is looking more and more interesting as the ep go on.
Man, this series is getting more and more engaging
This campaign should be named "Race to Jupiter" as like the WW1 "Race to the sea"...
You probably know, but you can squeeze out some more open MC slots from your territory by decolonizing (and then reintegrating) some regions (like Caribbean Islands for EU or Siberia for Russia).
Yes and no. It's more investment point efficient but it's harder to manage. Also if they already have full mc in the region, which is possible, they can't build anything additional. And then you have to unify again with another year long timer
@@pinkyfull No, I'm not talking about investment points efficiency. Some regions have "Colony Region" tag. Aside from some obscure economy effects it also forbids to build Mission Control (shows as -/0 in regions tab). To fix this you need to either cede it to some undeveloped nation that claims it or to grant it independence. After that tag is removed and it gets its 6 (or 8 if it has Core Economic Region, but I do not see any colonies like that) open MC points that can be invested into. After that you free to reintegrate region back however you want, tag wont return.
Love your videos, keep up the good work on destroying the alien scum.
Congrats being first
Tier 1 defense platforms are a bit on the weak side but they can be built in 30 days, compared to a tier 2 being 90 days.
The bigger problem is powering them. The lower tier reactors that are built in the same kind of time are too inefficient. You’d run out of space for too little return.
Since you don't pay a lot of attention to role types/names, I want to point out that the alien Desolate Grave Dreadnought is a Defense Bomber, which is the short strategic range class that matches up pretty well with most player's first missile monitors. Wanna bet they're taking your raiding personally? As posted at 1:38 and I assume from the other comments that they are taking it personally, but it looks to me like they're actually building defensive role ships now because you're raiding them in their own territory.
The exotic drop from alien ship is random, and can vary greatly. I killed a mothership, and got 0 resources(not even metal or rares). reloaded, killed it again, got 1.4 exotic-ish, reloaded again and got like 14.
It's just very annoyingly random.
But at the same time, I'm hearing cheese potential. You can just reload your saves until you hit a good value.
@@PeterJavi Save scumming exist in any game where you can save almost anytime. I also had crashing issue with autoresolve with that mothership, it kept crashing when the result screen popped up, so I had to do the fight myself.
The thing is, the load time of this game is really long XD.
But I was tired of my game, just needed a few more exotic for my win condition(Aliens were in a lul also, and were't sending any new ships to blow up or making new structure on Earth), and I refused to have a mothership give me less exotic then a small fleet(1-3 ship).
It was by principle.
Your playthrough truly demonstrates how there're multiple ways to skin a cat. In my playthrough, the name of the game was Weapons. No Unification researches, no Ring Habs, no orbital bombardment defense, nothing. I maximized my my research by taking EU (Eurasian), US, and China (China took a smooth year to pacify). Then it was all an arms race. I also researched as much protection as possible from alien hax. I finished research of Phasers and plasma by 2036. Nose mounted phasers with Heavy Plasma Batteries, escorted by about 5-10 cheap escort-class thermo-nuke bombers? That's GG.
I must add that I never did anything to to the Servants to piss off the aliens. I never even downed an alien ship early-mid game for exotic material. As a matter of fact, I never researched ANY tech the needed exotics. Weapon systems that utilize exotics are superior, but aren't absolutely necessary for defeating the aliens in the field. I made sure to sign non-aggression pacts with all other factions by showering them with gifts and mad research projects. I kept the servants at a "tolerate" status, but kept sabotaging their research, and turning their councilors to my faction. Using this approach did not generate ANY hate with the aliens, and never changed status from "tolerate", to "war". But the protectorates? I grinded them down to paste. Quite literally, I made them my b***h. I ceased all their assets and everything they'd built up. Assassinations were carried out with regularity. Bleeding Europe some may say.
Really enjoying your playthrough though👍👍
Good luck on the next phase of the reclamation of human space. Best bet as you said would be to whittle down, regroup and “smash” the remnants.
Ooh, what a cliffhanger! Expanse worthy!
Great series, looking forward to the jovian campaign. It is almost like following a Newsfeed!
Why bother with biowarfare when you could just build a fast one man ship and fire max through the wormhole with orders to just kill all the aliens? Surely they have bridges on their planet
Oh Wow I'm on the edge of my seat; the narration is so exciting.
Edit: Nevermind, turning off defenses and the generators powering them has HUGELY turned my space economy around. I'm saving so much money, nobles, and fissiles now. I still need to be mining more nobles, but this is going to make a huge difference for me.
I think I built too many space defenses, or I'm not mining enough nobles. If I power the defenses down, will I save on nobles? If the defenses are powered down, will they still deter the aliens? Could I power them back up if a fleet is heading towards one? If so would that mean powering down habs could lure aliens into a trap?
I've heard one of the issues with this is that powered off systems power back on with a game load. So you may have to do a little maintenance each game start to not be paying for all those unaffordable defences.
@@Mandabar2 Yeah, also changing modules in the hab may cause things to power on. It has really created a lot of micromanagement.
This is like watching a tv show. Great stuff, keep it coming!
When talking about Jupiter and it's orbit in general you can refer to it as the “Jovian system” or the “Jovian moons”.
I'm pretty excited for Thunderdome Jupiter, give 'em hell Humanity First
Oof! Gonna be a hot time in Jupiter system tonight! So exciting!
I shouldn't be so concerned about a fictional spaceship in a video game, but here I am.
Hopefully you can intercept those alien fleets in-transfer
omg i'm so hyped for the next episode
ALL HAIL THE PERUN EMPIRE
They may die, but I hope they take as many of those damn xenos out with them, god speed legends of the Jovian
@PerunGamingAU while the exact yields are semi-randomized, the yields of space mining in TI reflects the expected composition and geological activity of each body. The Jovian moons Europa and Callisto are covered in water ice IRL, so their yield of water in game tends to reflect this.
With a bit more research you can figure on what you should expect to find when prospecting. For example, Saturn’s Enceladus is also expected to have ice and even potentially water beneath its surface…
I am remarkably invested in this.