I like how every time Perun says “this design/person is temporary and will be replaced later on” we subsequently see that particular thing used as widely as humanly possible for as long as humanly possible. Long live max
@@michaeledmunds7056 Luckily I have not. Sounds unpleasant. I guess they'd take a page out of WH40K and label their assault guns "objection" or something like that.
I imagine an Academy ship captain staring at the tactical console and going: 'I'm going to have to science the shit out of this' with a straight face as she plots attack vectors and optimal firing solutions.
I feel like "there's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution" should be well-known by now, not at all surprised to see that design be kept around. That said, it felt like the episode was cut a bit abruptly..? Great content as always!
8:10 this should be called the Max effect, when you say your only going to get something to have around for a short period of time but then that doesn't happen and it ends up being used for a long time
I love the naming scheme for the space ships, please let the end game titans be theory class ships like relativity and gravity. Other ship pitches include Axiom class: fixed location defense craft because in war the first step is to protect the ground you have, and axiom is fancy nerd talk for base assumption. Law class: calling something a theory is arguably the highest level an idea can aspire to in science, but laws are the underlying maths that gets shit done. The workhorse of the late game navy. Imma leave it at that... actually also want to call colony ships conjecture
Personally, I like having PD boats within my plasma titans fleets. I make them small with a lot of acceleration so they can maneuver them near titans being torpedoed. They work wonders :D Oh and you can even split them from the main fleet when going for alien platforms too, so not risking them at all.
I just spam lancers with 2 UV phasers and spinal plasma plus dreadnaught with heavy coil batteries and 2 UV phasers in a high wall formation. Deals well with the missile spam and all ships have enough nose armour to handle plasma
I feel the line describing this campaign would be something like. Academy:"Hello Alien Neighbor, i see you applied for a course in multi level warfare, prepare to get schooled."
I never knew Garibaldi was a scientist. I'm more familiar with the character from Babylon 5. I'm really hoping for a station/ship class called Delenn now.
Man you're speedrunning the game on challenge settings and I've floundered my way to Fusion drives a full decade behind you. I'm expecting this campaign to be over and done with before the end of 39' at this rate
Loving this playthrough as always. Will reiterate my hope that we'll get to see one uber-doom fleet vs doom fleet confrontation at some point in this. Understand that won't be anytime soon, but would just love to see how something of that scale goes (and perhaps how to salvage if it goes wrong). But my wishes mean nothing haha.
I hope you can change flags and the names of countries someday. I want cool future countries Witt cool future flags! Some of the super-states you can make have cool flags but you can easily lose them when uniting with other countries, as super-states tend to do.
Love the flavourful faction specific technologies very cool & enjoying it that you can beat the game or at this stage be in a winning position without going full proto Imperium of Man like the HF run
As an idea for another homebrew rule: as the Academy doesn’t want to escalate the war in any way, both Nukes and Antimatter weapons should be banned unless the Aliens use them first (if they even can)
I really had a good experience with titans. Heavy Plasma Nose for 4 slots plus a heavy Coil Battery. The 4 slot plasma has the alpha damage to go through most armor on lighter ships and disables drives and weapons with only a few hits. By the time these ships get into 4 slot coil battery range, they have become easy targets and get cleaned up by a few coil hits. Often by that time the plasma already can engage targets further back if correct primary targets are selected, softening them up for the coils when they come into range. Surving heavy ships are usually isolated and overwhelmed at that point. Plasma only needs so much focus fire and a lot of damage gets mitigated by armor. With the combo of long range-medium damage plasma, mid range-heavy damage coil larger fleets scale very well. Oh, and you have space for 4 phaser pds as well, solving that problem. 4slot plasma nos, 4 slot coil battery, rest is pd. The coils also have the nice effect that enemy lasers will focus on them rather than your armor, same with enemy platforms.
Something you can do with 4-Nose Hulls is to put in a 3 slot and a 1 slot. So you could move to Titans and have a Nose array of 3-Slot Laser and 1-Slot Laser to up the forward PD.
Man i was just sittning here wondering if there was a new episode and it just pops up the instance that lovely ty for the great content and plz keep making content even if you are out of content in this game one day please play other fun strategy games ❤
Perun, is there a reason why your voice on your other channel is always a lot louder than on this channel? I have to turn up the volume on your videos here, that isn't neccessary on the other channel at all. Besides that, love your videos and I am looking forwards to a powerpoint presentation on why the Protectorate are worthless surrender monkeys.
He said at the beginning that he doesn't really like it because it seems too random and you are even more restricted. Might be interesting to try it with the Alien Lovers or Surrender Monkeys.
52:30 Considering the bug affecting the ayered Defense Arrays, in a future hard playthrough, you should always run the battles in spped 2/3, even if it benefits you to run the battles faster.
Academy main fleet i'm running in 2041 : Formation tight, High Wall, archer, Wing - 2800 kps Delta-V 18 Titans (2 heavy plasma + 2 point defense) long range 3 Dreadnoughts (1 heavy plasma + 4 point defense + 3 nose small phasers) medium range With this formation and design setup i have the point defense heavy Dreadnoughts in the middle, perfect to counter the massive waves of mag ammo and missiles. So far only one Dread lost (it had a previous design with less pd), 4/6 Alien Mothership 8-10K fleets and 80% of space station/shipyards have been destroyed. Total fleet balance 38k vs 30k i'm close to 50%-50%, only one alien mining base remaining (the final outpost i can't nuke it lol) Secondary fleet has same composition but 1800 kps Delta-V and split into Titans duos guarding Mercury, Earth, Mars and Ganymede with the remaining fleet in Earth orbit ready to transfer to one of the duos if reinforcement are needed. This remaining fleet also take care of alien rebuilding bases or the human faction attempts. Maybe it's a little overkill but i'm only using 320 mission point total and anyway the Aliens need to understand Humanity under the lead of Academy is the dominant species in the Solar System. Something strange about this run : the aliens didn't really attack my space bases, maybe because i started the full war by nuking 1/3 of their mining bases quite quickly, they were almost retreating/reorganizing for a moment, also it was 0.3.27, in 0.3.35 they seem to be more aggressive. Thanks for the episode !
A potentially funny idea for an Exodus playthough is to wreck the Earth as much as possible before bailing. Global warming, nukes, burn it all, then skedaddle.
Regarding Plasma the Heavy Plasma Battery mk3 has a dmp of 35.25; the Heavy Plasma Cannon mk3 a dpm of 45.9 while the normal Plasma Cannon mk 3 has a dpm of 43.125. As you can see a dreadnought with 2 Heavy Plasma Battery mk3s and 3 Green Phaser Cannons has a dpm of 70.5+3*60 = 250.5; while a dreadnought with 1 Heavy Plasma Battery mk3, 2 Green Phaser Batteries, 2 Point Defense Phasers and 1 Plasma Cannon mk3 is 35.25 + 2*30 + 43.125 = 138.375. These values apply only at short range where the Phasers can mostly ignore armor; however, when you compare only long range capability the dreadnought variants have a dpm of 75.5 and 78.375 respectively with the second having a much better point-defense capability. This is in case anyone was interested in a numerical analysis of the pro's and con's attributed to the two designs. Love the content by the way, can't wait for the next episode.
I think the "arms limitations" technology are meant for the other "pro-Alien factions" that the Academy is technically counted as. (With a value of -0.5.) For the Protectorate and Servants, it's a way to soften things up for their masters.
Hey perun, we'd love to see your tech tree and what's going on with the western world as of now on earth. hopefully u can dedicate a bit of time next episode for it.
What is that? I watched your HF series almost all the way through, but maybe somewhere in episode 26 you attack alien space bases... is this the eighth episode and you do already?! The experience seems to be accelerated you...
I smile when I picture a bunch of grandmas and grandpas looking out the windows of the geriatrics facility, and booing because the lightshow was over too fast.
Know I'm super late to the party here - but it seems like you could accelerate ships that aren't targetted by missiles to provide forward cover with their PD before the missiles arrive, might not have lost the dreadnaught that way.
I find it interesting how the base/station defenses despite equipping weapons that cost exotics (UV Phasers and Plasma Mk3 in this case) never actually cost exotics.
Just a thought.. Why not make a PD Titan? Like a fully armoured Titan just covered in PD and lasers to help it.. no Plasma, no coils.. pure focused on pd.. one per fleet should be more than enough, right?
another rule-proposal albeit a little late: The Academy does not want to settle stellar bodies which might host life such as Europa in order to not become an invasive species like the Hydras. Research to detect other life-forms native to our solar system is nit part of the game I believe, but I think it would be an interesting perspective for the Academy to view contaminating other worlds as an atrocity even if it happens without the intention to destroy native life.
You should use a Protium Converter Torch drive ship for the final mission. The Academy head is entitled to their entitlements and a fast beast sounds ideal. At over 62,000 tons of radiator required for each thruster they don’t get much bigger.
I like that the radiators on the spaceships are one sided objects. I like to believe that its not a graphics glitch where the artist forgot to add material to both sides of the plane, but its actually a feature of the radiator where the material doesn't radiate energy back towards the ship, making the inner side look transparent.
Idk if u are doing this at all, but i saw that one strategy for these mega India/chinese states which have 100k Bn or 200k Bn GDP is going all eco priority and using money to direct invest in funding. Which scales with GDP i believe. So with ur insanely huge GDP, u could use a few thousand cash to boost ur funding income which could mitigate alot of ur late game cash upkeep sinks. TLDR: The greater the GDP the more u get in funding, pairs well with using that money to reinvest in funding and make more.
that does seem rather funny, increase teh economy, jsutt o pay off the unrest rioters, XD butyeah it does snowball from what searching i could do, if you ahve enough of the other stuff jsut increasing cash money can be quicker than slowly doin the other way
I am in bed thinking. How viable would it be for an early game strat . taking a superpower then just pumping econ to buy off the rest 1 monthsboosting econ buying knoledge vs 1 month of straight knowledge... If you catch my drift but obviously for the others
@@any1alive Here's my logic, we all know science is probably the most important aspect of the game. And a Nation's GDP is a large factor to science output. When u pump eco, ur science output scales upwards with it. 2 birds 1 stone. Once u start getting tech finished, u can use projects for trading with other factions. Tech to the AI is highly valuable. They will pay a lot for a single project. So use that money to pump funding which will greatly increase monthly funds. So now u have a high gdp, high scoence, and multiple money makers. Which then can be pumped into any priority. Knowledge and MC are my favs. Get funding high enough and u can easily just make the initiative look poor. Because of this, the academy can get richer than the initiative due to being more science Inclined. (More projects to sell)
NEW CHALLENGE IDEA: Cause WW3, launch a nuclear war and see what happens …also apparently you can lose to the servants and protectorate as the resistance and still play to a victory
Space science is just faster to get. My first win in Terra Invicta I didn't have any research stations, just the low orbit bonus %s. With United NA, EU+Russia, China+Malaysia, & India I had over 68k science per month with only one research pipped. I ended up avoiding knowledge since it was ultra annoying having the repeatables being the only thing left to research and having it pop up multiple times a month.
Make a ship with mk3 ECM and no pd at all with like 100 front armour. Put at least 4 of those boys vs an alien fleet in skirmish. 4 ECM will delete missile swarms regardles of their size and 100 armor with a few repairbays will eat any mags and plasma. This way you can use all the weapon slots for actual weapons: 2 coilgun batteries + 1 nosecoilgun + small nose coilgun is gonna create an impossible bullethell for them. Just make sure to use mk3 coilguns mk2 is MUCH weaker Edit: NVM ECM does not work in skirmish on aliens... ig cause you need the tech wellp maybe you bite the bullet try in the campain or you see how well it works vs a human faction in skirmish
Could you build a ship that is a close range knife fighter, maybe a ram bow? Something that could really screw up an enemy formation by putting itself in the middle of it and absorbing as much punishment as possible? Could that even be a thing in Terra Invicta?
With the property litigation team I just imagine they drop pod a bunch of legal documents on top of the enemy's base, upon declining the signage of the said documents the "legal team" assaults the base.
I think he lost that Dreadnought due to the green lasers being in attack mode vs guardian. The green lasers were doing piss all damage long range vs shooting the incoming missile volley earlier. EDIT: "Tickle Damage"
I'm adding this nonsensical group specific meme to bolster the attraction of this video, I'm not even 100% sure what it means. May it please the fickle but mighty TH-cam Algorithm. I'm pogged out of my gourd seeing this content.
Hi Perun I'm a big fan of your TI playthroughs Just a few questions 1- Why do you not put anything into the Funding priority? 2- Are you going to continue your Festering Skies playthrough? Keep up the good work
I guess he considers funding weaker than everything else, since funding only gives you money, and there are many other good ways to get money. Plus, it is more of a maintenance resource at this point of the game.
The ship building system in Terra Invicta is fairly complex. There is also the tactical and strategic elements as well. Larger ships carry more fuel. With efficient engines, this generally means they can travel huge distances between the planets and still have fuel to operate at their destination and return to their original launch point if needed. Bigger ships are, generally, better for long distance invasions. Later game, you have to deal with plasma weapons. Plasma cannot be intercepted or dodged. Only armor stops plasma. As the aliens develop bigger plasma weapons and concentrate into larger fleets, you will lose smaller ships unless they are heavily armored, which drastically reduces their performance. You also need to factor in the cost of Exotic materials and Anti-matter, which is difficult to obtain in large quantities until the mid to late game. Exotics and Anti-matter unlock most of your powerful and effective space technologies. TL;DR large ships are a more versatile investment of rare resources and time until you are established. At which point, it does not matter, so keep going big for continued versatility.
@@CountingStars333 What stage of the game are you going to build those smaller pd ships? Early, when the armor and weapons you have available are insufficient unless you build in large numbers, thus necessitating a need for massive extra planetary mining to keep up with your losses (mining infrastructure that you don't have). Middle, when the aliens switch to plasma, rendering your pd boats obsolete. Late, when your tech and weaponry simply steamroll anything except a mothership in terms of ship for ship quality, and you'vre already gained space superiority over the aliens. Perun does a lot of edits so he does not really show it, but TIME is your most valuable resource. It's why he builds colony ships (reduces the time to build further from outposts). His ship building space stations have multiple, high tier ship yards to speed the process. He builds stations at critical locations to refuel, repair and allows him to build closer to the front, to reduce travel times. If you have to constantly replace losses from your relatively poorly armored small vessels, your fleets move slower as you wait for reinforcements. As Perun has pointed out, larger ships have more utility slots and can equip heavier armor with less efficiency loss. They have better survivability, which allows you to "snowball" faster, rather than needing more shipyards to maintain fleet strength AND grow fleet strength. You end up spending more on infrastructure, which takes time to build. Always make efficient use of larger ship designs when your economy permits. If you need PD boats as a stop-gap while the aliens are switching to plasma, use cruiser or dreanought hulls, so you can refit them into main line warships or seige vessels when the aliens eventually go full plasma. Small ships fair poorly against plasma, as both the Humanity First and Academy series on this channel can attest to.
I suspect you never researched the prerequisite technology for the arms control as Humanity First. Why would you? Although I think it’s also an interesting way to limit your enemies on Earth if you have a significant miltech advantage. Get to the top of the hill and then kick everyone down the slope.
A couple observations: In you HF playthrough, when HF pushed Democracy throughout the World, it doesn’t matter who votes, it only matters who counts the votes. In this playthrough, are nukes really necessary when you have weapons capable of performing an orbital bombardment? Question: I know there is intentional ramming in the game, is there unintentional collisions?
I imagine you can use the Arab League and moving the capital of the Caliphate to Pakistan to unify the entirety of Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia into India.
Wait, why making super collider at Jupiter instead of Mercury? Timestamp 54:41 And have the Devs change the anti-matter harvesters at Jovian moon to make it worthwhile or is it still a trap technology?
@@PerunGamingAU You mentioned some for Jupiter first but then later Mercury I think. So I guess it's still Mercury for the anti-matter because the easy energy?
Would colonies built on Phobos and Deimos contribute to getting Mars' population past the 50,000 mark? I don't remember if it says 50,000 people on the planet or 50,000 people in the system. Does anyone know?
I like how every time Perun says “this design/person is temporary and will be replaced later on” we subsequently see that particular thing used as widely as humanly possible for as long as humanly possible. Long live max
as they say, stopgap solutions last forever
@@delfinenteddyson9865 I usually say that there is no such thing as a “temporary solution“
Perun must work for the government with how many "temporary" solutions he comes up with that outlast the rest.
It's an Australian tradition, our "temporary" parliament house was in use for 60 years
As someone who works in IT I can tell you that nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Sometimes you gotta bludgeon a whole species into peaceful coexistence.
[Rolls up newspaper] Bad alien! (slap) Bad! (slap) No peeing on the carpet!
I mean, that is kind of Humanity's entire history with itself... 😂
I say the whole world must learn of our peaceful ways... BY FORCE!
All the academy-related euphemisms and insistent terminologies you've been using so far have been the cherry on top of this playthrough.
Insistent?
With the occasional slip-up though. Like he had his lawyers "assault the base". Still liking it. Gives the faction more flavour.
@@kaltaron1284 you've never seen a tactical assault lawyer before?
@@michaeledmunds7056 Luckily I have not. Sounds unpleasant. I guess they'd take a page out of WH40K and label their assault guns "objection" or something like that.
@@kaltaron1284 Nah, it'd be something Latin, like "Actus Reus"
I imagine an Academy ship captain staring at the tactical console and going: 'I'm going to have to science the shit out of this' with a straight face as she plots attack vectors and optimal firing solutions.
Pretty sure that's the Academy's motto, probably in Latin.
@@Brasc "Ego ex hoc stercore scientiam habiturum."
They aren't "attack vectors", c'mon. We don't use the word "attack", it's simply a vigorous academic debate.
Gonna Honor Harrington this shit
@@69Kazeshini With the exception that getting your T crossed is the preferable option here.
Because nothing says "Covert operative stealthing through our world" like an alien with 5 squads of preatorean guards.
He takes a gamer approach to stealth
I'm guessing that when a Hydra gets snatched his orgs are lost WTEO the alien orgs that bounce to the remaining Hydras.
“This could not possibly end badly, because stationing a whole bunch of marines on Mars can only end in good things in every story I’ve ever read” 😅
In my book going to hell and smacking some demons is a good end.
And, you know, Academi is about knowlledge, like some marsian duds in red, serving the Omnissai
@@АлексСухадольский Nothing bad could ever come out of that specific faith.
I feel like "there's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution" should be well-known by now, not at all surprised to see that design be kept around. That said, it felt like the episode was cut a bit abruptly..? Great content as always!
Jay is just following the alien with a big net. He's used up all the good tools.
It's not paranoia if your fears are justified. That poor hydra knows his days of freedom are limited
8:10 this should be called the Max effect, when you say your only going to get something to have around for a short period of time but then that doesn't happen and it ends up being used for a long time
Perun: "Max will only be around for a short time."
Max: *finishes off the aliens with his own hands*
I love the naming scheme for the space ships, please let the end game titans be theory class ships like relativity and gravity.
Other ship pitches include
Axiom class: fixed location defense craft because in war the first step is to protect the ground you have, and axiom is fancy nerd talk for base assumption.
Law class: calling something a theory is arguably the highest level an idea can aspire to in science, but laws are the underlying maths that gets shit done. The workhorse of the late game navy.
Imma leave it at that... actually also want to call colony ships conjecture
Personally, I like having PD boats within my plasma titans fleets. I make them small with a lot of acceleration so they can maneuver them near titans being torpedoed. They work wonders :D
Oh and you can even split them from the main fleet when going for alien platforms too, so not risking them at all.
I just spam lancers with 2 UV phasers and spinal plasma plus dreadnaught with heavy coil batteries and 2 UV phasers in a high wall formation.
Deals well with the missile spam and all ships have enough nose armour to handle plasma
@@phinix250 well spamming any ship would end up doing well in the most part.
I feel the line describing this campaign would be something like.
Academy:"Hello Alien Neighbor, i see you applied for a course in multi level warfare, prepare to get schooled."
I never knew Garibaldi was a scientist. I'm more familiar with the character from Babylon 5. I'm really hoping for a station/ship class called Delenn now.
The most famous Garibaldi is the one who helped in the unification of Italy.
Obviously an early scientist of unification theory the foundation of the super states@@dyingearth
By this time Perun should know better than saying " thing X is temporary"
Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.
Well, on a cosmic sort of level, everything is temporary
Why not? Those temporary solutions are pretty effective. In Max's case you could even call it a "final solution".
The current patch seems to do a good job of pruning the alien's fleet strength simply by the sheer number of suicide bombing runs they do.
Man you're speedrunning the game on challenge settings and I've floundered my way to Fusion drives a full decade behind you. I'm expecting this campaign to be over and done with before the end of 39' at this rate
Loving this playthrough as always. Will reiterate my hope that we'll get to see one uber-doom fleet vs doom fleet confrontation at some point in this. Understand that won't be anytime soon, but would just love to see how something of that scale goes (and perhaps how to salvage if it goes wrong). But my wishes mean nothing haha.
I hope you can change flags and the names of countries someday.
I want cool future countries Witt cool future flags! Some of the super-states you can make have cool flags but you can easily lose them when uniting with other countries, as super-states tend to do.
yeah me too i was really hoping the pan-asia combine would be the end game
I chuckled when I saw the "Garibaldi" Station. " Ohhhh Mr. Garibaaldiiii"
Love the flavourful faction specific technologies very cool & enjoying it that you can beat the game or at this stage be in a winning position without going full proto Imperium of Man like the HF run
As an idea for another homebrew rule: as the Academy doesn’t want to escalate the war in any way, both Nukes and Antimatter weapons should be banned unless the Aliens use them first (if they even can)
I really had a good experience with titans. Heavy Plasma Nose for 4 slots plus a heavy Coil Battery. The 4 slot plasma has the alpha damage to go through most armor on lighter ships and disables drives and weapons with only a few hits.
By the time these ships get into 4 slot coil battery range, they have become easy targets and get cleaned up by a few coil hits. Often by that time the plasma already can engage targets further back if correct primary targets are selected, softening them up for the coils when they come into range. Surving heavy ships are usually isolated and overwhelmed at that point. Plasma only needs so much focus fire and a lot of damage gets mitigated by armor. With the combo of long range-medium damage plasma, mid range-heavy damage coil larger fleets scale very well.
Oh, and you have space for 4 phaser pds as well, solving that problem. 4slot plasma nos, 4 slot coil battery, rest is pd. The coils also have the nice effect that enemy lasers will focus on them rather than your armor, same with enemy platforms.
Might be nice to see a more indepth look at how the fight for Europe and North America are going between the the other factions
Jagielloński University would be quite nice. Jagiellonian in English I think.
Cheers from Poland!
Something you can do with 4-Nose Hulls is to put in a 3 slot and a 1 slot. So you could move to Titans and have a Nose array of 3-Slot Laser and 1-Slot Laser to up the forward PD.
Wouldn’t 4 one slots do better? Also, the issue Perun has is they can’t mount double mk3 plasma, right?
@@bluu.0111 For Maximum PD, probably? But 3+1 preserves the Offensive Utility of the 3 Slot whilst also upping the PD.
Man i was just sittning here wondering if there was a new episode and it just pops up the instance that lovely ty for the great content and plz keep making content even if you are out of content in this game one day please play other fun strategy games ❤
Perun, is there a reason why your voice on your other channel is always a lot louder than on this channel? I have to turn up the volume on your videos here, that isn't neccessary on the other channel at all.
Besides that, love your videos and I am looking forwards to a powerpoint presentation on why the Protectorate are worthless surrender monkeys.
completely different recording rig, room, and software. I think I have a solution though thanks to my sound guy's advice
Apparently the critical mass for plasma boats is somewhere around 10 guns/ships. Good lord was that a slaughter.
I'd like to see what Brutal difficulty is like. Hopefully that'll be in the next playthrough.
He said at the beginning that he doesn't really like it because it seems too random and you are even more restricted. Might be interesting to try it with the Alien Lovers or Surrender Monkeys.
That tour event is why I always include a skunkworks on my research facilities.
thank you Perun for the excellent content!
52:30 Considering the bug affecting the ayered Defense Arrays, in a future hard playthrough, you should always run the battles in spped 2/3, even if it benefits you to run the battles faster.
the academy is well on its way to teaching others their peaceful ways, by force.
Thank you for the right click to get the detailed numbers tip!!!!
Academy main fleet i'm running in 2041 : Formation tight, High Wall, archer, Wing - 2800 kps Delta-V
18 Titans (2 heavy plasma + 2 point defense) long range
3 Dreadnoughts (1 heavy plasma + 4 point defense + 3 nose small phasers) medium range
With this formation and design setup i have the point defense heavy Dreadnoughts in the middle, perfect to counter the massive waves of mag ammo and missiles.
So far only one Dread lost (it had a previous design with less pd), 4/6 Alien Mothership 8-10K fleets and 80% of space station/shipyards have been destroyed. Total fleet balance 38k vs 30k i'm close to 50%-50%, only one alien mining base remaining (the final outpost i can't nuke it lol)
Secondary fleet has same composition but 1800 kps Delta-V and split into Titans duos guarding Mercury, Earth, Mars and Ganymede with the remaining fleet in Earth orbit ready to transfer to one of the duos if reinforcement are needed. This remaining fleet also take care of alien rebuilding bases or the human faction attempts.
Maybe it's a little overkill but i'm only using 320 mission point total and anyway the Aliens need to understand Humanity under the lead of Academy is the dominant species in the Solar System.
Something strange about this run : the aliens didn't really attack my space bases, maybe because i started the full war by nuking 1/3 of their mining bases quite quickly, they were almost retreating/reorganizing for a moment, also it was 0.3.27, in 0.3.35 they seem to be more aggressive.
Thanks for the episode !
A potentially funny idea for an Exodus playthough is to wreck the Earth as much as possible before bailing. Global warming, nukes, burn it all, then skedaddle.
Amazing you can finish a game.. I keep having to wait a week or two after hitting crash walls.
Regarding Plasma the Heavy Plasma Battery mk3 has a dmp of 35.25; the Heavy Plasma Cannon mk3 a dpm of 45.9 while the normal Plasma Cannon mk 3 has a dpm of 43.125.
As you can see a dreadnought with 2 Heavy Plasma Battery mk3s and 3 Green Phaser Cannons has a dpm of 70.5+3*60 = 250.5; while a dreadnought with 1 Heavy Plasma Battery mk3, 2 Green Phaser Batteries, 2 Point Defense Phasers and 1 Plasma Cannon mk3 is 35.25 + 2*30 + 43.125 = 138.375.
These values apply only at short range where the Phasers can mostly ignore armor; however, when you compare only long range capability the dreadnought variants have a dpm of 75.5 and 78.375 respectively with the second having a much better point-defense capability. This is in case anyone was interested in a numerical analysis of the pro's and con's attributed to the two designs.
Love the content by the way, can't wait for the next episode.
Plz read the captured Griffen text.
I think the "arms limitations" technology are meant for the other "pro-Alien factions" that the Academy is technically counted as. (With a value of -0.5.) For the Protectorate and Servants, it's a way to soften things up for their masters.
True
Hey perun, we'd love to see your tech tree and what's going on with the western world as of now on earth. hopefully u can dedicate a bit of time next episode for it.
I feel like the weapons reduction tech should show up earlier this late seems like you would have earth under lock down
Hello, this series is much appreciated. Awesome content.
Hello Perun, it would be awesome if you could show your ships design in your videos as you did in your humanity first run.
When you put a new hub with your colony ship you can upgrade the core to Igor away. If I remember correctly this way ring hub will be done in 120 days
Damn you keep posting some good shit with such a good consistency
What is that? I watched your HF series almost all the way through, but maybe somewhere in episode 26 you attack alien space bases... is this the eighth episode and you do already?! The experience seems to be accelerated you...
The space snowball begins! I’m nervous about going too low on armies and military, ai might turn on you.
Checkov's mining base: if a base is constructed in the first act then it must have produced ore by the third?
I finished a week's worth of homework early just so that I could enjoy videos like this guilt free.
I smile when I picture a bunch of grandmas and grandpas looking out the windows of the geriatrics facility, and booing because the lightshow was over too fast.
Know I'm super late to the party here - but it seems like you could accelerate ships that aren't targetted by missiles to provide forward cover with their PD before the missiles arrive, might not have lost the dreadnaught that way.
Imagine humanity haveing A space station with 3.9k crew - awe-inspiring.
I find it interesting how the base/station defenses despite equipping weapons that cost exotics (UV Phasers and Plasma Mk3 in this case) never actually cost exotics.
Just a thought.. Why not make a PD Titan? Like a fully armoured Titan just covered in PD and lasers to help it.. no Plasma, no coils.. pure focused on pd.. one per fleet should be more than enough, right?
A quick review of what these ships are would be great.
What about building a class of escort ships? One or two loaded down with PD could be useful for protecting a fleet.
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39:40 "Buy 'em out boys!"
another rule-proposal albeit a little late: The Academy does not want to settle stellar bodies which might host life such as Europa in order to not become an invasive species like the Hydras. Research to detect other life-forms native to our solar system is nit part of the game I believe, but I think it would be an interesting perspective for the Academy to view contaminating other worlds as an atrocity even if it happens without the intention to destroy native life.
You should use a Protium Converter Torch drive ship for the final mission. The Academy head is entitled to their entitlements and a fast beast sounds ideal. At over 62,000 tons of radiator required for each thruster they don’t get much bigger.
Hi perun, use the funding priority to stabilize your income. It dose not increase inequality so I find it useful to stablize income.
When you play the Initiative you should name your marine fleet "Patent Enforcment Team".
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I like that the radiators on the spaceships are one sided objects. I like to believe that its not a graphics glitch where the artist forgot to add material to both sides of the plane, but its actually a feature of the radiator where the material doesn't radiate energy back towards the ship, making the inner side look transparent.
Idk if u are doing this at all, but i saw that one strategy for these mega India/chinese states which have 100k Bn or 200k Bn GDP is going all eco priority and using money to direct invest in funding. Which scales with GDP i believe. So with ur insanely huge GDP, u could use a few thousand cash to boost ur funding income which could mitigate alot of ur late game cash upkeep sinks.
TLDR: The greater the GDP the more u get in funding, pairs well with using that money to reinvest in funding and make more.
that does seem rather funny, increase teh economy, jsutt o pay off the unrest rioters, XD butyeah it does snowball from what searching i could do, if you ahve enough of the other stuff jsut increasing cash money can be quicker than slowly doin the other way
I am in bed thinking. How viable would it be for an early game strat . taking a superpower then just pumping econ to buy off the rest 1 monthsboosting econ buying knoledge vs 1 month of straight knowledge... If you catch my drift but obviously for the others
@@any1alive Here's my logic, we all know science is probably the most important aspect of the game. And a Nation's GDP is a large factor to science output. When u pump eco, ur science output scales upwards with it. 2 birds 1 stone. Once u start getting tech finished, u can use projects for trading with other factions. Tech to the AI is highly valuable. They will pay a lot for a single project. So use that money to pump funding which will greatly increase monthly funds. So now u have a high gdp, high scoence, and multiple money makers. Which then can be pumped into any priority. Knowledge and MC are my favs. Get funding high enough and u can easily just make the initiative look poor. Because of this, the academy can get richer than the initiative due to being more science Inclined. (More projects to sell)
Maybe an additional rule on bait stations is that they have to be automated.
NEW CHALLENGE IDEA:
Cause WW3, launch a nuclear war and see what happens
…also apparently you can lose to the servants and protectorate as the resistance and still play to a victory
hell ya
Space science is just faster to get. My first win in Terra Invicta I didn't have any research stations, just the low orbit bonus %s. With United NA, EU+Russia, China+Malaysia, & India I had over 68k science per month with only one research pipped. I ended up avoiding knowledge since it was ultra annoying having the repeatables being the only thing left to research and having it pop up multiple times a month.
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Make a ship with mk3 ECM and no pd at all with like 100 front armour. Put at least 4 of those boys vs an alien fleet in skirmish. 4 ECM will delete missile swarms regardles of their size and 100 armor with a few repairbays will eat any mags and plasma. This way you can use all the weapon slots for actual weapons: 2 coilgun batteries + 1 nosecoilgun + small nose coilgun is gonna create an impossible bullethell for them. Just make sure to use mk3 coilguns mk2 is MUCH weaker
Edit: NVM ECM does not work in skirmish on aliens... ig cause you need the tech wellp maybe you bite the bullet try in the campain or you see how well it works vs a human faction in skirmish
Could you build a ship that is a close range knife fighter, maybe a ram bow? Something that could really screw up an enemy formation by putting itself in the middle of it and absorbing as much punishment as possible? Could that even be a thing in Terra Invicta?
The ships that have the speed for this don't have the armor and vice versa. Also TI has pretty steep armor negation when in close range.
@@PeterJavi So ends the tank decoy knife fighter concept.
I suggest you name a Titan class the Replication Crisis class.
With the property litigation team I just imagine they drop pod a bunch of legal documents on top of the enemy's base, upon declining the signage of the said documents the "legal team" assaults the base.
Do you mean the legal team engages in tough but fair negotiation?
I think he lost that Dreadnought due to the green lasers being in attack mode vs guardian. The green lasers were doing piss all damage long range vs shooting the incoming missile volley earlier.
EDIT: "Tickle Damage"
Have you thought about uploading to a different site like floatplane? Good content keep it up :)
7:03 As an Italian I wonder why the protectorate choosen to name a station after Garibaldi...
Fleet Ivy League when?
I'm adding this nonsensical group specific meme to bolster the attraction of this video, I'm not even 100% sure what it means. May it please the fickle but mighty TH-cam Algorithm. I'm pogged out of my gourd seeing this content.
Humanity First are opposed to Arms limitation.
Hi Perun
I'm a big fan of your TI playthroughs
Just a few questions
1- Why do you not put anything into the Funding priority?
2- Are you going to continue your Festering Skies playthrough?
Keep up the good work
I guess he considers funding weaker than everything else, since funding only gives you money, and there are many other good ways to get money. Plus, it is more of a maintenance resource at this point of the game.
@@bernardonegri5416 That's fair
You should do later a Latin America only game in the future, as a easier faction than the Academy of course
Looking at the control point cap is says you only have 115 out of 300 something. Why is it so low on both ends?
Is a small maneuvering ship rly less effective than something that can take a million hits but is super expensive?
The ship building system in Terra Invicta is fairly complex. There is also the tactical and strategic elements as well. Larger ships carry more fuel. With efficient engines, this generally means they can travel huge distances between the planets and still have fuel to operate at their destination and return to their original launch point if needed. Bigger ships are, generally, better for long distance invasions. Later game, you have to deal with plasma weapons. Plasma cannot be intercepted or dodged. Only armor stops plasma. As the aliens develop bigger plasma weapons and concentrate into larger fleets, you will lose smaller ships unless they are heavily armored, which drastically reduces their performance. You also need to factor in the cost of Exotic materials and Anti-matter, which is difficult to obtain in large quantities until the mid to late game. Exotics and Anti-matter unlock most of your powerful and effective space technologies.
TL;DR large ships are a more versatile investment of rare resources and time until you are established. At which point, it does not matter, so keep going big for continued versatility.
Id say large big dv boats for attack but supplemented by cheap zero exotics smaller pd boats for defense ?
@@CountingStars333 What stage of the game are you going to build those smaller pd ships?
Early, when the armor and weapons you have available are insufficient unless you build in large numbers, thus necessitating a need for massive extra planetary mining to keep up with your losses (mining infrastructure that you don't have).
Middle, when the aliens switch to plasma, rendering your pd boats obsolete.
Late, when your tech and weaponry simply steamroll anything except a mothership in terms of ship for ship quality, and you'vre already gained space superiority over the aliens.
Perun does a lot of edits so he does not really show it, but TIME is your most valuable resource. It's why he builds colony ships (reduces the time to build further from outposts). His ship building space stations have multiple, high tier ship yards to speed the process. He builds stations at critical locations to refuel, repair and allows him to build closer to the front, to reduce travel times. If you have to constantly replace losses from your relatively poorly armored small vessels, your fleets move slower as you wait for reinforcements. As Perun has pointed out, larger ships have more utility slots and can equip heavier armor with less efficiency loss. They have better survivability, which allows you to "snowball" faster, rather than needing more shipyards to maintain fleet strength AND grow fleet strength. You end up spending more on infrastructure, which takes time to build.
Always make efficient use of larger ship designs when your economy permits. If you need PD boats as a stop-gap while the aliens are switching to plasma, use cruiser or dreanought hulls, so you can refit them into main line warships or seige vessels when the aliens eventually go full plasma. Small ships fair poorly against plasma, as both the Humanity First and Academy series on this channel can attest to.
Did DF-Jupiter just fly through Jupiter around 50:00 ???
You should get back the ISS on principle.
Idea for a play style / Play through: Pacifist, no offensive wars on earth no coup, no warships. Probably only possible for exodus and the servants.
Exodus needs 250 exotics to finish their objective so pacifism isn't possible for them.
@@XchaosmarineX92 I think you can trade for them
@@romulusnuma116 with the rest of the resources you need I highly doubt the AI factions will have enough to fight and accumulate that many exotics.
@@XchaosmarineX92 probably true
Nice!
I suspect you never researched the prerequisite technology for the arms control as Humanity First. Why would you? Although I think it’s also an interesting way to limit your enemies on Earth if you have a significant miltech advantage. Get to the top of the hill and then kick everyone down the slope.
I finished all the tech in an Exodus run and never got arm control tech either. It's definitely an academy only thing.
@@XchaosmarineX92 Fascinating! I wonder if there’s hidden tech like this for all the factions?
Someone said it's for pro-alien factions, which technically includes the academy. Don't quote me on that tho
A couple observations:
In you HF playthrough, when HF pushed Democracy throughout the World, it doesn’t matter who votes, it only matters who counts the votes.
In this playthrough, are nukes really necessary when you have weapons capable of performing an orbital bombardment?
Question: I know there is intentional ramming in the game, is there unintentional collisions?
I imagine you can use the Arab League and moving the capital of the Caliphate to Pakistan to unify the entirety of Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia into India.
And if you unify britain with south Africa and then kick the EU into south africa, could you unify europe into India too? Along with russia?
Why aren't you building battlestations like you did during the Humanity First run?
Why didn't you show the interrogation of the subservient alien species?
Hi
How are you getting so many buildings in Mars bases with so few power stations?
Same question with orbital stations. I must really be doing something wrong?
callisto is sweet
Wait, why making super collider at Jupiter instead of Mercury? Timestamp 54:41 And have the Devs change the anti-matter harvesters at Jovian moon to make it worthwhile or is it still a trap technology?
they're mercury. did I misspeak?
@@PerunGamingAU You mentioned some for Jupiter first but then later Mercury I think.
So I guess it's still Mercury for the anti-matter because the easy energy?
What if HF wage war on the Academy, the mil tech level is too low to defend?
I want to see ships equip with antimatter weapon
Would colonies built on Phobos and Deimos contribute to getting Mars' population past the 50,000 mark? I don't remember if it says 50,000 people on the planet or 50,000 people in the system. Does anyone know?
More than half the world's population running a quarter quadrillion dollar economy, "we're hard up for cash." Is Funding totally anathema?