I vote for Max to send the bomb through the wormhole. From 'eh, I'll probably replace him eventually' to 'Scourge of the Xeno Scum' is a storybook epic that will be told for centuries.
In case you wanted to know the Jovian campaign has led to the destruction of: 69 total alien vessels Including: 3 assault carriers 5 dreadnoughts 2 motherships And one human civilian science vessel
@@raptor4916 didn't Guadalcanal start with one catastrophic loss fir the Americans, and then a turn around that kept going? This Jupiter campaign started strong and stayed strong
"Ummm...Mr Castillo?" "SI?" "Is it just me or...do you have this strange obsession with Australia?" "What?" Well its just, you know. Every ship class and major station is named after an Australian city or is in some way an Australian pop culture reference- "You're overthinking this councillor. Dont bring it up again, you're dismissed." But- "Dismissed." * waits for the councillor to leave, before opening a draw and fishing out a packet of Tim-tams * "Damnit, the facka's on ta me."
He admires the sheer deadliness of Australia. And deadliness is what he needs to ensure that humanity is put first. No corporation shall diminish what humanity's destiny could be. No government shall infringe upon his design. Humanity will be first. And that means ALL of humanity. Without any auxilary rule that might take the rules into their own hands and benefit their own ways. In a way, he is kinda fanatic humanitarianism on a scale that goes beyond even the planet.
Side note, I do feel he might be, in a certain way, similar to the God Emperor of Mankind... back during the pre-Horus era. Before the AI went rogue. Back when they were first getting going.
Year 2040 -Rus- Eurasian Military: T-14 Armata has finally entered full production and completely replaced all T-72, T-80 and T-90 variants! USNA Military: Hover tanks with plasma cannons.
Aliens when Perun kills dozens upon dozens of alien ships, operatives, servants and mining facilities: sleep Aliens when Perun destroys some random ass station in low Vesta orbit: Real shit.
The first man in orbit of Saturn was a Marine. How delightfully HF. "Boots on the ground, armed to the teeth, borged up and dosed on Post-Arrival Amphetamines. We're going to take a few firsts today boys, so make sure you chalk up every kill"
@@kaltaron1284 There's quite an obvious reason as to why using HF's greatest toy on some lone alien bloke planting xeno weed in Peru or something is not the best idea, the surprise need to be total and absolute.
“What I remember about the rise of the Eurasian Union is... is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of the Europa Cold war, the Bundesheer was discreetly transferred to Paris. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Paris, not when Operation Europa was ordered, and not when we marched into the European Council HQ. Not a word. Humanity First always.”
"We need a name for a ship that will approach slowly and then terminate the target with extreme prejudice. We need names that inspire fear. And so it is only appropriate."
"People of Earth. Residents of inner and outer system colonies. Staff of space stations across Sol. Rank and officers of the fleets of Terra. Today is eleventh of August. The year is two thousand forty. In the last eighteen years, humanity has been stricken with a fact - the xenos were real. We divided ourselves, letting our base instincts control us. Some were curious, and wished to engage in conversation. Some were afraid, and chose to roll over and expose their stomachs in submission. But the simplest, and most powerful, of human natures prevailed. We were alerted to a threat, and set out to eliminate it. The day when that happens is, unfortunately, not today. Today is a day of history for mankind for a different reason. When we scrambled to acquire control of assets on earth, nobody expected that our lives would be met with less hardships, that they would improve, that the world would grew to truly learn from the mistakes of old to achieve something far greater than ever before." Momentary microphone static fills the air as the speaker takes a pause, drawing in some air. They are not reading off a script. "Today we stand united. Today marks the unification of the Eurasian Union, the European Union, and the Empire of Great Britain into one entity. It may not have the most people on earth, as India has twice the population. It may not have the strongest military, as the United States of North America have so effortlessly proven in countless operations. What the newfound Terran Union has is something far greater than any other nation on the planet - we have unity. True unity. Eighteen years ago, we stood divided, fractured against the alien menace. Today, the biggest nation of the planet stands united against the threat, providing the best information network for our missions. USNA stands as our ally, providing the best military officials for the fleets. India stands as our ally, providing a tremendous amount of workforce - automated and otherwise - for the colonies and mining operations out there. Soon, maybe in another eighteen years, all of Earth will truly stand united, as one singular, cohesive entity. One government to rule an interplanetary empire. One nation of people who chose to stand against a threat to our very exist. The future is a bright one, my fellow humans. Today marks one of the most important steps in attaining it. Let our tomorrow be ever brighter." Another momentary pause as the speaker tries to subtly wipe a tear that rolled down their right cheek. "Humanity First - forever, and always, we stride to a better future. Let us stride together, united." [Records of the speech dated 11.08.2040, marking the historical event before the formation of the Terran Empire, recorded by the speaker chosen by the president of the Eurasian Union, chairman of the European Union, and the Great King of Britain]
@@Rose_Harmonic I know but my phone can barely handle that amount of text on yt so I can't actually change it. It'll probably crash my phone, like how it did three times while I was trying to paste this in from my discord.
In my first ever battle against a mothership, I didn’t know what to expect, so I had all my battleships clustered together for overlapping PD. I didn’t count on the alien ship basically Tokyo drifting sideways straight into my fleet, ramming every single one of them and annihilating my fleet without suffering any major damage itself.
"I do not judge or belittle those that initially chose to submit or barter with the alien. It is impossible to predict the correct response in any situation without prior experience. And some of those responses are instinctual. But given enough time, and the evidence of what we have accomplished both on earth and in space against the threat, I do not extend that grace period indefinitely. It has been 18 years since the arrival of the enemy on our home. Nine years later their ships started raining from the skies like shooting stars. And now we are pushing them out, slowly, base by base, fleet by fleet, moon by moon and planet by planet. Given the enemies propensity for mind control, I have to assume that any alien supporters still remaining on the planet are either deluded or active enemy agents. I do not gamble with the odds. Neither should you." - Fleet admiral Klaus Hofstädter, addressing Marines before a boarding action against the ISS
I think Max deserves the chance to finish the fight, He would be PISSED if someone else got the chance to conduct “assassinate” on every hydra ever simultaneously and it just makes sense that he should be the guy to do it. Thanks for the regular uploads on this channel and the main one, can’t wait for the next couple episodes! ❤️
It also makes sense from a lore perspective. My guy has been mass murdering people, aliens and who knows what else. We'll just make it headcanon that he knows he can't function in a peaceful united solar system thus takes the weapon and burns hard for Makemake, gloriously throwing himself in the wormhole as the ultimate middle finger to Xenos
@@ishanchegu nah the org needed to do the mission gives the councilor in question the mission required to do it. Basically allowing you to use any councilor you see fit.
You know... I could just hear the Alien Commander of the Starbase when those ships came to destroy them . Alien Scanner Tech: "Sir, according to my IFF Scan, I believe one of those ships is named after that infamous Terran Councilor of the Humanity First Organization we have been having so much trouble from." Alien Commander: "WHAT!?!? Command to ALL gunners! DESTROY THE MAX AT ALL COST!!!!" ---- Alien Gunner talking to his partner: "Did he say The MAX? ...We are Sooooooo SCREWED!"
Perun, can I say that your regular video uploads have been such a relief to me personally. I stay near the flood affected town of Victoria (Shepparton) and it’s a harsh time for our community. Thanks for being a ray of light in these dark times.
As a kid I used to wait for my favourite TV shows to air for the whole day or sometimes the whole week. Now I am a grown man and I constantly check if there is a new Terra Invicta upload from Perun. Thank you good sir, you just made sunday so much better! :D
26:35 It looked like the missiles were re-acquiring targets there, so it looks like launched missiles will try to hit a different target if their original target gets blown up while their on route.
yeah I noticed that too, I guess the missiles are smarter than originally thought. They might just not have that good turning, so they were able to reacquire a target and hit just due to the sheer size of the Mother Ships. Probably why Perun thought they were wasted after the first MS was destroyed
Missiles have their own delta-v and acceleration. They'll use whatever they have to hit their main target, and to acquire a new target after their main target dies so you're spot on
@@polygondwanaland8390 it's very viable. the main disadvantage is: missiles make for huge on paper combat power. so aliens fear them, and go cover at their stations.
If you want to take minimal casualties while assaulting a station, attack it while a fleet is docked. Your ships start further back that way, and with sufficient force can destroy the ships before coming into range of the point defences. As you start out of range of the point defence, you can destroy them one by one as you come into range, minimising casualties. Also, I'm not sure if you noticed, and if you did sorry for the presumption, but when engage an enemy fleet you can change the ship arrangement in the box where it usually says "cloud". I've found that cloud is the worst formation as it means the PD can't overlap, and that the 3-wide wall (High wall?), or with larger fleets the 5-wide wall (Great wall?) leads to far better PD overlap (Although with a lot of ships the game does get a little disorderly with the placement).
The key is PLASMA - thats how you kill ships 800-1000km away. All the phasers in the world need you to be much closer. Against a station that has max defenses like he just had, you WILL have casualties - the key to reduce them is to have REPAIR BAY on all ships that you plan to receive damage. In his situation, he lost 1 titan. I had the objective and I had 21 BBs. I lost 3 BBs. However I lost 3 more, because of damage and no repair bay - I had to scuttle them. Typically you want to get close as fast as possible, but not against stations. THEIR energy weapons will chew you up worse than your Phasers will do in return. PLASMA, PLASMA, PLASMA. Agreed, the wall formation is MUCH easier to overlap PD, but MORE importantly, ensure your vessels come into firing range of enemy targets at the SAME time.
@@dansiegel995 Plasmas only do 3-4 DPS (damage per second) per slot. Boosted medium Phasers do: 25 DPS (light nose), 10 (medium battery). (titan with 5 advanced laser boosters, leaving 3 slots for component armor, repair and antimatter spiker). to be honest, maybe just 1 pd would do, and a light UV phaser battery giving another 15 DPS would be better. having 2 PDs, you get about 8 DPS from plasmas @ 1000km. or you get about 120 DPS @ 800km from the phasers. the phasers will get some malus from dispersion, but if they are UV it's probably not much (it says in the tooltip that the laser booster also reduces the malus, not sure if it's true). think something heavy with loots of armor as bait (aliens always focusfire), then send in the more lightly armored titans with phasers. be the time the switch fire, if they do, it's going to be all over. should work to take them down without casualties. (designate everything but the bait as transport, then the start further back, and can make a high speed attack run). almost have all the tech to test it..., right know i want their stations alive and well. blowing just their mines left them starving for fuel and anything... and those mighty stations are just one more serious drag on their already low resources.
This playthrough has so many weird things happen, I honestly expected Perun to go: “You know what, Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, let’s do this.”
Two months later the eggheads on an undisclosed Mercury science orbital station through a relentless 27/7 3-shifts number crunching on their quantum supercomputing array finally managed to find the approximate amount of sevral plank units of Fuck the Drop Bear frontal shield managed to give. Around 4, and later that week upon calibration of the equipment and reproduction of the experiment it was found that the previous result was due to a rounding error driving the results up from an absolute null value.
One VERY small error(?) I noticed: You regularly seem to apply a burn on the yellow control node when trying to make your fleets turn or catch up. The orange one is almost always the right choice. That means the ship is going to coast for longer and then do the burn. I'm only mentioning this because of how many people are probably using this series to learn to play well. Edit: You went back and fixed it the time I was watching when I made this comment. But it definitely happened in earlier videos, so going to leave the comment here.
I'm terrible at maneuvering (I simply need to spend time in the skirmish simulator), but regardless of color, isnt it simply a reflection of the time domain? Want to turn right away, pick the closest node to your ship. Right? Want to maneuver but not worry about it for a minute, then put it on the last node. As time goes by, the nodes advance, and if you maneuvered on the last node and then waited, its exactly like if you maneuvered on the first node however without the wait. Coasting first just wastes time, no?
@@tristanridley1601 right - after just getting on, realized the orange color was the first node, so we're all on the same page. Do maneuvers as soon as possible.
@@dean_l33 But that's the whole point. Nero is a politician and one that wants to unite and keep things united. From a lore perspective it makes no sense to send a guy like that in and have a murdering maniac like Max take over. Max would fucking hate Nero's job and vice versa.
I think the max that was destroyed still had over 80% of its nose armor so yeah you could probably cut that nose armor value in half, especially if you send them in larger groups. That all being said the drop bears were surprisingly effective, it would be a shame if you only use them for the threat of orbital bombardment.
As I understand it 80% of nose armor means a 20% chance of hits bypassing armor and coming through to the internals, it doesn't mean they have to chew through the other 80% until you're vulnerable, so cutting the armor in half would be pretty risky. Also I'm pretty sure the Max was destroyed because its radiator was extended and it took a hit early in the combat and it gradually cooked itself to death, the little thermometer on its unit card was bright red. Two other ships also lost their radiators and almost met the same fate in that combat, too. Heat is basically the Achilles heel of massive ships and I don't think Perun has noticed it yet.
@@xeroprotagonist Honestly having a single radiator for a ship seems silly. A single lucky hit to a radiator shouldn't kill a ship, it should take several, all hitting different radiator modules.
@@xeroprotagonist I'll have to go check out that fight again to see if I missed that max cook itself to death. Good catch! as for the nose armor damage formula, I have no idea what it is so I am talking out of my ass especially if this ship cooked itself to death. My only point was if "criticals" were bypassing the armor then having 3 meters or 300 meters wouldn't matter on stopping them and there is likely a sweet spot where more armor wouldn't matter due to % of penetrating shots bypassing armor. but like I said, I'm talking out of my ass because I don't know the formula
It's like the AI was roleplaying. If the aliens know our ship names the way we know theirs, of COURSE they freaked out and concentrated all their fire on the "Max." From an alien perspective, he's like if the bogeyman showed up to swing the fate of a world war, and he's coming to our base?! NOPE. ANYONE BUT HIM.
Look, I know who should be the one to deliver the weapon, Max, he should be the one to send the alien filth a parting gift before blowing up the primary base. After all, he was a candidate to be retired and look at where he is now!
Okay, that pherocyte bioweapon is horrifying. When Humanity First soldiers say, "dear God, let's put that poor xeno out of its misery, I don't like watching it suffer like that..." Humanity First does not fuck around.
Awesome proof of combat roles to both the Titans and Max/Super Max class. It was awe inspiring that you destroyed the Motherships that sent them running back to the outer regions. I think they (Aliens) will be turtling up within the outer regions to repell a possible invasion by Humanity. Perhaps, you could build / capture a FOB in the Saturn area so you can sally forth easier with shipyards / repair like you did at Jupiter / IO bases. Idk. Just my 2cents. Wait till you have rsearched the Anti matter / better drives before conducting invasion to better manuver / escape if needed. Your battle tactics in better manuvering ships truly turned the tide of war. Cant wait for further videos from you in the future.
Your character in GeneralConfusions game just charged a ton of aliens dual wielding armed explosives and got blown up by his buddies rocket launcher aimed at the same aliens. Seems thematic for humanity first.
it would be awesome if ships crew could urn experience and become deadlier just by surviving and fighting and then you could upgrade the ship and just make them more deadly
@@zhshsG7 it doesn't need to be a full RPG mechanic, just something like a % damage increase / % defense increase vs a particular class of ship after destroying X amount/surviving X engagements.
A few salvos of missles and coils launched at the stations may tie up their lasers in PD actions, helping limit crits and the death by a thousand cuts the Max endured.
Its either a mag round from Scourge or the 480cm UV Phaser from Harrow that scores the kill. Not quite sure as the 480 seems to be the last thing hitting the Mothership, but it then still engages something with its lasers before exploding, and a mag round from Scourge that did get engaged by alien PD right before impact would have arrived at the correct time to make the kill.
@@chikenman0116 Nukes have a very... "particularly flashy" hit animation. If it had been a nuke, I would not need to guess the cause. If a nuke scores a kill, you know it was a nuke from any distance you can still observe the ship :P
When attacking a station, like at ~40:00, would it make sense to target the generators instead of the defense arrays or battle stations? They're not so scary if they're powered down.
The map painting pleases me. Also, I think it's only fitting that Max is one to deliver the weapon. Bringing down an alien empire would be his Magnum Opus, everything before was just build up.
A couple semi-spoiler suggestions from my Resistance experience: 1. Bring a councilor with high CMD. Remember to equip the omega solution org while he's still on Earth. (You can't equip new orgs on him once he's left Earth) ... That essentially makes Max the guy. 2. Bring a couple fusion platform kits to Makemake. You might need it.
Considering that HF is its own organisation that has control of superstates - they probably draw recruits from US, European and Eurasian special forces units rather than taking freshies. So, best join your local army now bud so you've got the resume lmao
@@onewowen Let's be honest those 2040 HF nerds probably are around half mechanical and run on more performance enhancers than all the tour de France participants combined.
congratulations on getting enough alloys to build the exodus colony ship and most of the required techs. in my first game after 2 nuclear wars vs the aliens I finally got the damn thing built and launched for Christmas... 2070.
I noticed something, when you destroy an enemy while missiles were locked on it, if there's another target, it seems like the missiles redirect themselves to the next target. Maybe something to test out ?
I always look forward to these. Didn't expect to get one coupled with a Perun main delivery, though! Bonus all around. RIP the Max, but sacrifices have to be made in order to learn the enemy capabilities. Now we know what those stations can do, and how to beat them comfortably.
From London to Auckland, from Vladivostok to Lisbon, from Tromso to Cape Town - We are united, and we will not be enslaved. Death to the Hydra, Humanity First!
Watching those titans pick off heavy duty ships with ease reminded me how my battles went with aliens, sadly in reverse. Oh how the turn tables. Humanity was once the learner, but now is the master.
To be fair, "the extraordinarily deadly thing in proportion to its mass should be chemical, biological, or nuclear" sounds like a weird idea for a civilization that could mass producing ANTIMATTER.
Is there a reason you didn’t target power production while targeting the alien station? I feel like 3 or 4 lightly armoured power stations would be far easier to take down than the 11 laser stations…
Watching your campaign, I begin to wonder what the higher ups in the hydra military might be thinking. How does humanities performance so far compare to previous invasions, like the salamanders or the griphyns? I like to imagine that at this point, you've already destroyed significantly more of their ships than either of them and the hydra military is in full on panic mode.
I like to see that in this game the answer to high tech, overwhelming firepower isn't some other high tech sci-fi tech like force fields or shields. Nah, it's still the ancient and tried method of putting a lot of hard stuff between you and the enemy. And guess what, it doesn't matter how much firepower you have, you aren't getting through EIGHT METERS of solid metal.
After seeing this endgame reports for HF, I'll certainly subtly sabotage them in my current Resistance run. This people are mental. Empathy is king. Also I wonder if it is possible to engineer a victory for Academy. Would be a nice roleplay moment - Resistance and Academy alliance, repel the invasion and engage in diplomacy to assure peaceful coexistence.
Hey man I just wanted say that I look forward to your videos every day, you content is top tier and that aussie accent is exactly what the video needs, your stuff is great, here if my infantismal engagement contribution to aid you with the algorithm god, also castilo is the only relatable view imo
The algorithm is a demanding being and it accepts all tributes. More importantly, I just appreciate the comment, glad you're enjoying - mostly because I do sometimes get worried the accent will throw people off
It is nice to see that some of the devs for this game are fans of Pacific Rim, cause comon: "Yea, lets send a bomb to other side so not only we can close the portal, ehhm I mean wormhole, but to kick some alien butts!" - The leader of Red Hand of Saruman, I mean Humanity First!
I think that the resistance plan is still quite a reasonable one. Yes the aliens COULD just open another wormhole. But it's obviously quite difficult for them to open and must require significant resources to maintain. Otherwise, instead of a tiny choke point with significant mass limits, they could just open several and fling fleets at the humans through them. They've only opened one, and they only got to the position they were in thanks to having the element of surprise. We also know there's a pretty limited number of Hydra in the galaxy, so I think if humanity beat them back and closed the wormhole, the Hydra would be more likely to just agree to take the L and tell ghost stories to their children about the spooky human boogeyman.
Perun, Max Pichardo is the only logical choice to send the alien killing nuke through the wormhole. With no one to assassinate on earth (bcuz he killed almost everyone by himself) he should be sent to wipe out the Hydra & make them extinct. After his year's of dedicated service to mankind this is the perfect retirement present we can give him. Hans Castillo would agree too.
The Hades and Scourge will go down in Human history. They'd better make it all the way to the wormhole, and if not, there better be a pair of Titans bearing their name in that final fight.
The Max would not be satisfied with these weapons, antimatter engines, antimatter plasma if that even exists. you have antimatter production use it in the production of the terrifying weapons so that each titan is selecting a different layered defense array to reduce wasted shots. also now they think of themselves at war, humanity first came to that conclusion 18 years ago.
I'm pretty sure the Max was destroyed mostly by cooking itself to death, not alien fire, although I don't know exactly what got the last hit in. It lost its radiator very early on in the combat and started taking internal damage all over after it saturated its heat sink. Two other ships in the combat also lost their radiators toward the end and would have met the same fate if it had gone on any longer. Especially with very large ships, you need to be careful about pulling radiators in on ships that are taking fire, and you need to make sure they have the heat sink capacity to fight for more than a minute or two before having to extend them. Extended radiators are considered unarmored and IIRC the best radiators still have a 1% chance to be hit by any hits against the ship, so it doesn't matter if you have a huge ship with a million points of armor, your ship can still be killed by taking a large volume of fire if you leave the radiators out. That's one of the big problems with the 'small numbers of unescorted massive ships' fleet composition - oversized ships have oversized reactors that produce so much waste heat that it saturates their heat sinks very quickly, so they can't avoid extending their radiators if they're taking fire for extended periods. To avoid taking losses from heat you need to pull in radiators on ships that are taking focused fire and withdraw them from combat if their heat sinks are nearing saturation. Instead of having titans get up close and take lots of fire, you need a screen of smaller ships that can sink heat for a long time up in front, and your titans should stay at extreme range where they won't take high volumes of fire.
Fascinating - i should have been watching the ship more closely. I can look at solving that from an engineering perspective with more heat sinking, but I don't think you can retract tin droplet radiators at all
Hey Perun, fellow Terra Invicta player here! I gotta say that your playthrough has really helped me in my game. however if you have the free time I’d really like to see a short video tutorial on how to obtain such a large science income and what technology to rush for, you always seem to know what technologies to go for and it gets kinda hard going back through your playthrough to see what exactly you did
Can you target non-defenses in anti-station fights? It seems at a glance that targeting power stations might be faster with that many defense locations.
So a query on attacking space stations with defence arrays: Can you ignore the defences, target power generation and take out the defences that way or is it not an option? (Guessing offhand that it doesn't even let you target anything else) Other question: Why not take advantage of the further mass saving of using Exotic armour just on the sides?
By all rights, "Drop Bear" really ought to be the moniker of a Marine Frigate. Call them "Hogan's Heroes". Have their battlecry be:"Leafs & Greens?!? THAT's What Bloody XENOS EAT!!""
Another reason to have already had marine buildings at all earth-luna stations and colonies, is that enemy factions dont need ships to send their councilors to any of your facilities in the earth-luna system. Once you have lost one base to enemy control space asset, you become paranoid, lol.
Didn't you previously mention that the aliens self-destruct their bases rather than letting you capture them? Is their main base at Makemake an exception? I guess it would have to be or they'll blow up their own wormhole.
@@dean_l33 still the better option, considering HF's absolute zero-Fs-given ruthless attitude. Max: 'Press F to pay respects, I suppose' Hanse: 'There is no such letter on my keyboard!' Max: 'Our faction literally has the letter in its name, though..?' Hanse: *scowls, then grins with a sabretooth tiger's smile*
@@dean_l33 True but it would prevent HF from delivering their generous 'care package' through the wormhole. I'm betting the Makemake base will be the exception and HF's marines will be able to take it in tact.
I'm guessing HF's public opinion campaign in China was greatly helped by the fact they just went and done things to alien mommaship any of the alien offspring would be deeply uncomfortable with. All the while Protectorate concilors keep going to this one particular bridge to shoot themselves in the back of the head.
Yeah the DPS is insane whenever they get through PD - I think what often happens is you end up disabling PD using things like plasma and phasers, and then coils get through
Question: Would it be more effective to target the base's power structures and batteries so that the defense lasers/phasers and other offensive systems no longer have power to send beam weapons against the attacking fleet? Also, it seems that the formation issues place you at a significant tactical disadvantage. You need all ships clustered together to assist one another and also place attacking missiles/rods in clusters to overwhelm enemy defenses. Grats on the military successes and uniting the Eurasian Union!
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I vote for Max to send the bomb through the wormhole.
From 'eh, I'll probably replace him eventually' to 'Scourge of the Xeno Scum' is a storybook epic that will be told for centuries.
Looking forward to reading Max's autobiography after his eventual postwar retirement
He also needs to avenge the destruction of the Titan named in his honor.
The only acceptable choice
Maximum firepower!
Kids will have his birthday off from the elementary schools named after him in every city Humanity First controls.
In case you wanted to know the Jovian campaign has led to the destruction of:
69 total alien vessels
Including:
3 assault carriers
5 dreadnoughts
2 motherships
And one human civilian science vessel
and roughly 10-20 more off screen/ not filmed (including 2 assault carriers). it's been a heck of a campaign.
Nice
@@PerunGamingAU Its been a real Guadalcanal moment
@@raptor4916 didn't Guadalcanal start with one catastrophic loss fir the Americans, and then a turn around that kept going?
This Jupiter campaign started strong and stayed strong
@@RipOffProductionsLLC yeah but guadacanal was a the turning point of the war even more than midway.
"Ummm...Mr Castillo?"
"SI?"
"Is it just me or...do you have this strange obsession with Australia?"
"What?"
Well its just, you know. Every ship class and major station is named after an Australian city or is in some way an Australian pop culture reference-
"You're overthinking this councillor. Dont bring it up again, you're dismissed."
But-
"Dismissed."
* waits for the councillor to leave, before opening a draw and fishing out a packet of Tim-tams *
"Damnit, the facka's on ta me."
He admires the sheer deadliness of Australia. And deadliness is what he needs to ensure that humanity is put first. No corporation shall diminish what humanity's destiny could be. No government shall infringe upon his design. Humanity will be first. And that means ALL of humanity. Without any auxilary rule that might take the rules into their own hands and benefit their own ways.
In a way, he is kinda fanatic humanitarianism on a scale that goes beyond even the planet.
Side note, I do feel he might be, in a certain way, similar to the God Emperor of Mankind... back during the pre-Horus era. Before the AI went rogue. Back when they were first getting going.
Aliens consider destruction of their station a declaration of war. Ah, yes, and them blasting human station was a special enslaving operation, ofc.
@Alpha Sidon Inb4 aliens try to abduct humans enmasse to refill their losses.
@Alpha Sidon they might just be a couple motherships late on that one.
It's literaly the same situation. A group of beings attackin other group they think they are much inferior, and failing miserably.
Year 2040
-Rus- Eurasian Military: T-14 Armata has finally entered full production and completely replaced all T-72, T-80 and T-90 variants!
USNA Military: Hover tanks with plasma cannons.
And they will still find a way to break down at the Red Square.
Unironically credible.
Shockingly accurate predictions if modern experience is anything to go by
what is even more ironic is that eurasian russian has an education score of 12.7 compared to USNA's 10.7
@@shivanshukantprasad tbf didn't that only happen after the US absorbed Mexico?
Aliens when Perun kills dozens upon dozens of alien ships, operatives, servants and mining facilities: sleep
Aliens when Perun destroys some random ass station in low Vesta orbit: Real shit.
"Max, I have a mission for you."
"Yes, Colonel?"
"I need you to assassinate the Hydra."
"Of course! Which one?"
"Not a Hydra, Max. The Hydra."
The first man in orbit of Saturn was a Marine. How delightfully HF.
"Boots on the ground, armed to the teeth, borged up and dosed on Post-Arrival Amphetamines. We're going to take a few firsts today boys, so make sure you chalk up every kill"
Also, just in case it was missed, you need to assign the organisation you got for the mission, and I bet it probably gives some mean bonuses to Max.
@@cameronmcallister7606 He checked the org at 45:53 and it's really pretty much only worth it for the mission.
@@kaltaron1284 Aha, somehow I missed it. Makes sense though,. I was hoping it would give a bonus to Alien assassination or something, though.
@@cameronmcallister7606 Yeah, seems a bit underwhelming compared to the first corp you get.
@@kaltaron1284 There's quite an obvious reason as to why using HF's greatest toy on some lone alien bloke planting xeno weed in Peru or something is not the best idea, the surprise need to be total and absolute.
“What I remember about the rise of the Eurasian Union is... is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of the Europa Cold war, the Bundesheer was discreetly transferred to Paris. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Paris, not when Operation Europa was ordered, and not when we marched into the European Council HQ. Not a word. Humanity First always.”
the max class being the arsenal of humanity just feels correct
"We need a name for a ship that will approach slowly and then terminate the target with extreme prejudice. We need names that inspire fear. And so it is only appropriate."
"People of Earth. Residents of inner and outer system colonies. Staff of space stations across Sol. Rank and officers of the fleets of Terra. Today is eleventh of August. The year is two thousand forty. In the last eighteen years, humanity has been stricken with a fact - the xenos were real. We divided ourselves, letting our base instincts control us. Some were curious, and wished to engage in conversation. Some were afraid, and chose to roll over and expose their stomachs in submission. But the simplest, and most powerful, of human natures prevailed. We were alerted to a threat, and set out to eliminate it. The day when that happens is, unfortunately, not today. Today is a day of history for mankind for a different reason. When we scrambled to acquire control of assets on earth, nobody expected that our lives would be met with less hardships, that they would improve, that the world would grew to truly learn from the mistakes of old to achieve something far greater than ever before."
Momentary microphone static fills the air as the speaker takes a pause, drawing in some air. They are not reading off a script.
"Today we stand united. Today marks the unification of the Eurasian Union, the European Union, and the Empire of Great Britain into one entity. It may not have the most people on earth, as India has twice the population. It may not have the strongest military, as the United States of North America have so effortlessly proven in countless operations. What the newfound Terran Union has is something far greater than any other nation on the planet - we have unity. True unity. Eighteen years ago, we stood divided, fractured against the alien menace. Today, the biggest nation of the planet stands united against the threat, providing the best information network for our missions. USNA stands as our ally, providing the best military officials for the fleets. India stands as our ally, providing a tremendous amount of workforce - automated and otherwise - for the colonies and mining operations out there. Soon, maybe in another eighteen years, all of Earth will truly stand united, as one singular, cohesive entity. One government to rule an interplanetary empire. One nation of people who chose to stand against a threat to our very exist. The future is a bright one, my fellow humans. Today marks one of the most important steps in attaining it. Let our tomorrow be ever brighter."
Another momentary pause as the speaker tries to subtly wipe a tear that rolled down their right cheek.
"Humanity First - forever, and always, we stride to a better future. Let us stride together, united."
[Records of the speech dated 11.08.2040, marking the historical event before the formation of the Terran Empire, recorded by the speaker chosen by the president of the Eurasian Union, chairman of the European Union, and the Great King of Britain]
It is only fitting that Humanity First is the precursor to the Terran Empire
Typo: "...to our very exist[ence]."
@@Rose_Harmonic I know but my phone can barely handle that amount of text on yt so I can't actually change it. It'll probably crash my phone, like how it did three times while I was trying to paste this in from my discord.
@@Rose_Harmonic I chose to read the quote right there as the speaker not voicing that part loudly enough to get picked up by the microphone.
In my first ever battle against a mothership, I didn’t know what to expect, so I had all my battleships clustered together for overlapping PD. I didn’t count on the alien ship basically Tokyo drifting sideways straight into my fleet, ramming every single one of them and annihilating my fleet without suffering any major damage itself.
Oof.
Humans are never ready for the aliens to go to ramming speed
Sounds cool
"Let us show these germ ridden humans that two can play at the 'low tech solutions' game..."
@@mattfitzgerald7836
_Low tech problems require low tech solutions._
"I do not judge or belittle those that initially chose to submit or barter with the alien. It is impossible to predict the correct response in any situation without prior experience. And some of those responses are instinctual.
But given enough time, and the evidence of what we have accomplished both on earth and in space against the threat, I do not extend that grace period indefinitely. It has been 18 years since the arrival of the enemy on our home. Nine years later their ships started raining from the skies like shooting stars. And now we are pushing them out, slowly, base by base, fleet by fleet, moon by moon and planet by planet.
Given the enemies propensity for mind control, I have to assume that any alien supporters still remaining on the planet are either deluded or active enemy agents. I do not gamble with the odds. Neither should you."
- Fleet admiral Klaus Hofstädter, addressing Marines before a boarding action against the ISS
I think Max deserves the chance to finish the fight, He would be PISSED if someone else got the chance to conduct “assassinate” on every hydra ever simultaneously and it just makes sense that he should be the guy to do it.
Thanks for the regular uploads on this channel and the main one, can’t wait for the next couple episodes! ❤️
It also makes sense from a lore perspective. My guy has been mass murdering people, aliens and who knows what else. We'll just make it headcanon that he knows he can't function in a peaceful united solar system thus takes the weapon and burns hard for Makemake, gloriously throwing himself in the wormhole as the ultimate middle finger to Xenos
Maybe too old by then?
i think he needs to be an astronaut to attempt the mission?
@@sly_i are you implying his hatred of the hydra will be insufficient to keep him from death? This THE Max we are discussing here.
@@ishanchegu nah the org needed to do the mission gives the councilor in question the mission required to do it. Basically allowing you to use any councilor you see fit.
You know... I could just hear the Alien Commander of the Starbase when those ships came to destroy them .
Alien Scanner Tech: "Sir, according to my IFF Scan, I believe one of those ships is named after that infamous Terran Councilor of the Humanity First Organization we have been having so much trouble from."
Alien Commander: "WHAT!?!? Command to ALL gunners! DESTROY THE MAX AT ALL COST!!!!"
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Alien Gunner talking to his partner: "Did he say The MAX? ...We are Sooooooo SCREWED!"
Perun, can I say that your regular video uploads have been such a relief to me personally. I stay near the flood affected town of Victoria (Shepparton) and it’s a harsh time for our community. Thanks for being a ray of light in these dark times.
take care mate, all the best to you, your friends and family
Same. I'm in a very bed medical condition, and this has been truly highlights of my day.
Thank you
For all it's worth, I hope things get better for you all, cheers.
I like how each army tech level changes the picture, I wonder what the remaining ones look like 🤔
Drop Bear to the Mothership: Stop that it tickles 😂
I believe this is the last one, you can get more tech levels, but the picture will remain the same
time to crowdsource some tech level 8 and 9 art and get it added (need tech level 1 art as well, I believe none exists in game at the moment)
@@PerunGamingAU Have you looked at Saturn antimatter yields it’s best orbitals are 800
I think 7 is the max, after that it stops changing.
I'm sure there will be mods for this game in the futrue that get you to start at every country tech 1 everything at some point in time
As a kid I used to wait for my favourite TV shows to air for the whole day or sometimes the whole week. Now I am a grown man and I constantly check if there is a new Terra Invicta upload from Perun. Thank you good sir, you just made sunday so much better! :D
26:35 It looked like the missiles were re-acquiring targets there, so it looks like launched missiles will try to hit a different target if their original target gets blown up while their on route.
yeah I noticed that too, I guess the missiles are smarter than originally thought. They might just not have that good turning, so they were able to reacquire a target and hit just due to the sheer size of the Mother Ships. Probably why Perun thought they were wasted after the first MS was destroyed
Missiles have their own delta-v and acceleration. They'll use whatever they have to hit their main target, and to acquire a new target after their main target dies so you're spot on
@@GusBus963 That makes missile swarming seem a lot more viable than if they didn't
@@polygondwanaland8390 it's very viable. the main disadvantage is: missiles make for huge on paper combat power. so aliens fear them, and go cover at their stations.
If you want to take minimal casualties while assaulting a station, attack it while a fleet is docked. Your ships start further back that way, and with sufficient force can destroy the ships before coming into range of the point defences. As you start out of range of the point defence, you can destroy them one by one as you come into range, minimising casualties. Also, I'm not sure if you noticed, and if you did sorry for the presumption, but when engage an enemy fleet you can change the ship arrangement in the box where it usually says "cloud". I've found that cloud is the worst formation as it means the PD can't overlap, and that the 3-wide wall (High wall?), or with larger fleets the 5-wide wall (Great wall?) leads to far better PD overlap (Although with a lot of ships the game does get a little disorderly with the placement).
The key is PLASMA - thats how you kill ships 800-1000km away. All the phasers in the world need you to be much closer. Against a station that has max defenses like he just had, you WILL have casualties - the key to reduce them is to have REPAIR BAY on all ships that you plan to receive damage. In his situation, he lost 1 titan. I had the objective and I had 21 BBs. I lost 3 BBs. However I lost 3 more, because of damage and no repair bay - I had to scuttle them. Typically you want to get close as fast as possible, but not against stations. THEIR energy weapons will chew you up worse than your Phasers will do in return. PLASMA, PLASMA, PLASMA. Agreed, the wall formation is MUCH easier to overlap PD, but MORE importantly, ensure your vessels come into firing range of enemy targets at the SAME time.
@@dansiegel995 Plasmas only do 3-4 DPS (damage per second) per slot. Boosted medium Phasers do: 25 DPS (light nose), 10 (medium battery). (titan with 5 advanced laser boosters, leaving 3 slots for component armor, repair and antimatter spiker). to be honest, maybe just 1 pd would do, and a light UV phaser battery giving another 15 DPS would be better.
having 2 PDs, you get about 8 DPS from plasmas @ 1000km. or you get about 120 DPS @ 800km from the phasers. the phasers will get some malus from dispersion, but if they are UV it's probably not much (it says in the tooltip that the laser booster also reduces the malus, not sure if it's true).
think something heavy with loots of armor as bait (aliens always focusfire), then send in the more lightly armored titans with phasers. be the time the switch fire, if they do, it's going to be all over.
should work to take them down without casualties. (designate everything but the bait as transport, then the start further back, and can make a high speed attack run).
almost have all the tech to test it..., right know i want their stations alive and well. blowing just their mines left them starving for fuel and anything... and those mighty stations are just one more serious drag on their already low resources.
This playthrough has so many weird things happen, I honestly expected Perun to go: “You know what, Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, let’s do this.”
Underrated comment for WW2 buffs.
Absolutely ZERO f's were given by the Drop Bear's nose armour 😂
Aliens aboard that mothership were probably sh*tting themselves there at the end, and with good reason.
Two months later the eggheads on an undisclosed Mercury science orbital station through a relentless 27/7 3-shifts number crunching on their quantum supercomputing array finally managed to find the approximate amount of sevral plank units of Fuck the Drop Bear frontal shield managed to give. Around 4, and later that week upon calibration of the equipment and reproduction of the experiment it was found that the previous result was due to a rounding error driving the results up from an absolute null value.
One VERY small error(?) I noticed: You regularly seem to apply a burn on the yellow control node when trying to make your fleets turn or catch up. The orange one is almost always the right choice. That means the ship is going to coast for longer and then do the burn. I'm only mentioning this because of how many people are probably using this series to learn to play well.
Edit: You went back and fixed it the time I was watching when I made this comment. But it definitely happened in earlier videos, so going to leave the comment here.
I'm terrible at maneuvering (I simply need to spend time in the skirmish simulator), but regardless of color, isnt it simply a reflection of the time domain? Want to turn right away, pick the closest node to your ship. Right? Want to maneuver but not worry about it for a minute, then put it on the last node. As time goes by, the nodes advance, and if you maneuvered on the last node and then waited, its exactly like if you maneuvered on the first node however without the wait. Coasting first just wastes time, no?
@@dansiegel995 when he's trying to catch up or maneuver and be facing the enemy again before the enemy fire hits, he wants the first node possible.
@@tristanridley1601 right - after just getting on, realized the orange color was the first node, so we're all on the same page. Do maneuvers as soon as possible.
Max clearly needs to be the agent going on the final mission when the time comes.
Definitely but Nero the second had also been quite the mvp in getting the ball rolling in the unification of countries
@@dean_l33 But that's the whole point. Nero is a politician and one that wants to unite and keep things united. From a lore perspective it makes no sense to send a guy like that in and have a murdering maniac like Max take over. Max would fucking hate Nero's job and vice versa.
@@PeterJavi And I agree, it's just I think the other councilor also deserve some head pat for their work
@@dean_l33 They get the pat, Max swings the bat, simple as that.
Thought for the day: "The Mighty have no room for doubt"
Thank you for your consistent uploads good sir.
I think the max that was destroyed still had over 80% of its nose armor so yeah you could probably cut that nose armor value in half, especially if you send them in larger groups. That all being said the drop bears were surprisingly effective, it would be a shame if you only use them for the threat of orbital bombardment.
As I understand it 80% of nose armor means a 20% chance of hits bypassing armor and coming through to the internals, it doesn't mean they have to chew through the other 80% until you're vulnerable, so cutting the armor in half would be pretty risky. Also I'm pretty sure the Max was destroyed because its radiator was extended and it took a hit early in the combat and it gradually cooked itself to death, the little thermometer on its unit card was bright red. Two other ships also lost their radiators and almost met the same fate in that combat, too. Heat is basically the Achilles heel of massive ships and I don't think Perun has noticed it yet.
@@xeroprotagonist Honestly having a single radiator for a ship seems silly. A single lucky hit to a radiator shouldn't kill a ship, it should take several, all hitting different radiator modules.
@@xeroprotagonist I'll have to go check out that fight again to see if I missed that max cook itself to death. Good catch!
as for the nose armor damage formula, I have no idea what it is so I am talking out of my ass especially if this ship cooked itself to death. My only point was if "criticals" were bypassing the armor then having 3 meters or 300 meters wouldn't matter on stopping them and there is likely a sweet spot where more armor wouldn't matter due to % of penetrating shots bypassing armor.
but like I said, I'm talking out of my ass because I don't know the formula
As an American who has to wake up at 0400 every morning, these uploads have been a great way to wake up and start my day.
Thanks, man!
Salute to the Titan Max, going down swinging!
It's like the AI was roleplaying. If the aliens know our ship names the way we know theirs, of COURSE they freaked out and concentrated all their fire on the "Max." From an alien perspective, he's like if the bogeyman showed up to swing the fate of a world war, and he's coming to our base?! NOPE. ANYONE BUT HIM.
I think the alien just read the name of the titan, got scared the shit out of them and panic attack the titan
If you have to build a dedicated plagueship to infect a population with a deadly pathogen, I propose calling it the Ruby Princess
Red Plague also works
Castillo's Castrater
Ahahahahaha
Nurgle’s Gift
I lol'd at the Ruby Princess reference and will raise you one higher - Carnival Triumph :D
Look, I know who should be the one to deliver the weapon, Max, he should be the one to send the alien filth a parting gift before blowing up the primary base. After all, he was a candidate to be retired and look at where he is now!
Okay, that pherocyte bioweapon is horrifying. When Humanity First soldiers say, "dear God, let's put that poor xeno out of its misery, I don't like watching it suffer like that..."
Humanity First does not fuck around.
Finally we have arrived to the Xeno Question.
Wait, the Shiva virus?!
*Freespace 2 memories resurface*
YOU FOOLS! YOU CREATED THE SHIVANS!
Short / High wall are the best formations for large numbers of ships. It stacks them all at the same location so the PD overlaps.
I propose Max be the one to send the superweapon through the wormhole. Seems like something he would immensely enjoy.
Looks like Cairns had a small magazine explosion that blew off her nose, but kept flying, what a trooper.
Awesome proof of combat roles to both the Titans and Max/Super Max class.
It was awe inspiring that you destroyed the Motherships that sent them running back to the outer regions.
I think they (Aliens) will be turtling up within the outer regions to repell a possible invasion by Humanity.
Perhaps, you could build / capture a FOB in the Saturn area so you can sally forth easier with shipyards / repair like you did at Jupiter / IO bases. Idk. Just my 2cents.
Wait till you have rsearched the Anti matter / better drives before conducting invasion to better manuver / escape if needed.
Your battle tactics in better manuvering ships truly turned the tide of war.
Cant wait for further videos from you in the future.
Your character in GeneralConfusions game just charged a ton of aliens dual wielding armed explosives and got blown up by his buddies rocket launcher aimed at the same aliens. Seems thematic for humanity first.
it would be awesome if ships crew could urn experience and become deadlier just by surviving and fighting and then you could upgrade the ship and just make them more deadly
I disagree. I do not want RPG elements in such a complex game, the councilor mechanics seem enough.
@@zhshsG7 it doesn't need to be a full RPG mechanic, just something like a % damage increase / % defense increase vs a particular class of ship after destroying X amount/surviving X engagements.
@@zeph521 I would barely be bothered to assign admirals, but ok I guess some people would love it :P
A few salvos of missles and coils launched at the stations may tie up their lasers in PD actions, helping limit crits and the death by a thousand cuts the Max endured.
Its either a mag round from Scourge or the 480cm UV Phaser from Harrow that scores the kill. Not quite sure as the 480 seems to be the last thing hitting the Mothership, but it then still engages something with its lasers before exploding, and a mag round from Scourge that did get engaged by alien PD right before impact would have arrived at the correct time to make the kill.
Pretty sure it was a nuke that did it, they can re-target if they still have fuel left.
@@chikenman0116 Nukes have a very... "particularly flashy" hit animation. If it had been a nuke, I would not need to guess the cause. If a nuke scores a kill, you know it was a nuke from any distance you can still observe the ship :P
When attacking a station, like at ~40:00, would it make sense to target the generators instead of the defense arrays or battle stations? They're not so scary if they're powered down.
You can't. The only valid targets for the ships on the station are the defense structures.
27:34 With all those marines you could always rename the ISS to the GDSS Philadelphia.
The map painting pleases me.
Also, I think it's only fitting that Max is one to deliver the weapon. Bringing down an alien empire would be his Magnum Opus, everything before was just build up.
Always gonna click so fast whenever I see a Perun video
*Uploaded 2 minutes ago*
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOIOO!
I love how the Sydney just straight up went Leroy Jenkins on an enemy super capital ship.
A couple semi-spoiler suggestions from my Resistance experience:
1. Bring a councilor with high CMD. Remember to equip the omega solution org while he's still on Earth. (You can't equip new orgs on him once he's left Earth)
... That essentially makes Max the guy.
2. Bring a couple fusion platform kits to Makemake. You might need it.
Honestly if this scenario actually happened in real life, I would sign up to the HF Marines as soon as it becomes possible.
Who wouldn't brother. F them xenos
Imagine, sign up to be space marine, Go throught so much trial and training just to be sent to hangout with Those Nerd on ISS.
Considering that HF is its own organisation that has control of superstates - they probably draw recruits from US, European and Eurasian special forces units rather than taking freshies.
So, best join your local army now bud so you've got the resume lmao
@@onewowen meh Thats Still Good,Imagine Dying because the admiral forgot about you
@@onewowen Let's be honest those 2040 HF nerds probably are around half mechanical and run on more performance enhancers than all the tour de France participants combined.
Perun… I don’t really know that you were ever losing. Tbh that’s some real skill.
congratulations on getting enough alloys to build the exodus colony ship and most of the required techs. in my first game after 2 nuclear wars vs the aliens I finally got the damn thing built and launched for Christmas... 2070.
47:25
HF: What do you mean were only at war now? We've been styling on you on the battlefield for years now.
I noticed something, when you destroy an enemy while missiles were locked on it, if there's another target, it seems like the missiles redirect themselves to the next target.
Maybe something to test out ?
They do if they can
I always look forward to these. Didn't expect to get one coupled with a Perun main delivery, though! Bonus all around. RIP the Max, but sacrifices have to be made in order to learn the enemy capabilities. Now we know what those stations can do, and how to beat them comfortably.
From London to Auckland, from Vladivostok to Lisbon, from Tromso to Cape Town - We are united, and we will not be enslaved. Death to the Hydra, Humanity First!
29:30 sounds like a hydra zombie virus...
About the Wormhole problem i Think The Hydra need to Send it through Sublight means first so closing the wormhole would at least buy time for Humanity
Watching those titans pick off heavy duty ships with ease reminded me how my battles went with aliens, sadly in reverse. Oh how the turn tables. Humanity was once the learner, but now is the master.
Holy hell, these Titans of yours are something else.
To be fair, "the extraordinarily deadly thing in proportion to its mass should be chemical, biological, or nuclear" sounds like a weird idea for a civilization that could mass producing ANTIMATTER.
Incredible gameplay, incredible narration, incredible upload rate. Don't burn yourself out but it is incredible.
Is there a reason you didn’t target power production while targeting the alien station? I feel like 3 or 4 lightly armoured power stations would be far easier to take down than the 11 laser stations…
Also I thought you said we would be getting an instructional video today: you spoil us too much :)
I'd love to know the answer to this question too.
Modules without weapons aren't targetable unfortunately
12:59
Well done battlefleet Terra, go home to refuel and rearm
... dont forget to repaint the front of the drop bear!
Watching your campaign, I begin to wonder what the higher ups in the hydra military might be thinking. How does humanities performance so far compare to previous invasions, like the salamanders or the griphyns? I like to imagine that at this point, you've already destroyed significantly more of their ships than either of them and the hydra military is in full on panic mode.
"The apes learn quickly"
I like to see that in this game the answer to high tech, overwhelming firepower isn't some other high tech sci-fi tech like force fields or shields. Nah, it's still the ancient and tried method of putting a lot of hard stuff between you and the enemy. And guess what, it doesn't matter how much firepower you have, you aren't getting through EIGHT METERS of solid metal.
Thanks for uploading such a good content. Because of it I discovered your main channel
After seeing this endgame reports for HF, I'll certainly subtly sabotage them in my current Resistance run. This people are mental. Empathy is king.
Also I wonder if it is possible to engineer a victory for Academy. Would be a nice roleplay moment - Resistance and Academy alliance, repel the invasion and engage in diplomacy to assure peaceful coexistence.
Truly gripping stuff, quite makes my day to the point I will be sad when Max finally launches the WMD through the worm hole and closes it
Thanks for the video. Love the design of the grav tanks.
"This is a flying tank that shoots lazers, your argument is invalid"
Hey man I just wanted say that I look forward to your videos every day, you content is top tier and that aussie accent is exactly what the video needs, your stuff is great, here if my infantismal engagement contribution to aid you with the algorithm god, also castilo is the only relatable view imo
The algorithm is a demanding being and it accepts all tributes. More importantly, I just appreciate the comment, glad you're enjoying - mostly because I do sometimes get worried the accent will throw people off
It is nice to see that some of the devs for this game are fans of Pacific Rim, cause comon: "Yea, lets send a bomb to other side so not only we can close the portal, ehhm I mean wormhole, but to kick some alien butts!" - The leader of Red Hand of Saruman, I mean Humanity First!
An empire in which the sun never sets. Awesome.
I think that the resistance plan is still quite a reasonable one. Yes the aliens COULD just open another wormhole. But it's obviously quite difficult for them to open and must require significant resources to maintain. Otherwise, instead of a tiny choke point with significant mass limits, they could just open several and fling fleets at the humans through them. They've only opened one, and they only got to the position they were in thanks to having the element of surprise.
We also know there's a pretty limited number of Hydra in the galaxy, so I think if humanity beat them back and closed the wormhole, the Hydra would be more likely to just agree to take the L and tell ghost stories to their children about the spooky human boogeyman.
I'm obviously wearing my HF hat during these narrations. we're I playing someone else I'd spin it differently
Thats a rather anemic mothership. First one i killed was 200 exotics! I wonder how their stocks of exotics is doing, not well i bet!
Perun, Max Pichardo is the only logical choice to send the alien killing nuke through the wormhole. With no one to assassinate on earth (bcuz he killed almost everyone by himself) he should be sent to wipe out the Hydra & make them extinct. After his year's of dedicated service to mankind this is the perfect retirement present we can give him. Hans Castillo would agree too.
"20:40, awesome shot of the Amazon Rainforest / River in the background with the three completed Titans."
The Hades and Scourge will go down in Human history. They'd better make it all the way to the wormhole, and if not, there better be a pair of Titans bearing their name in that final fight.
Fantastic episode as always. The end goal is in sight!
Watching these videos has become a daily ritual for me now. You sir make great enjoyable contnent.
The Max would not be satisfied with these weapons, antimatter engines, antimatter plasma if that even exists. you have antimatter production use it in the production of the terrifying weapons so that each titan is selecting a different layered defense array to reduce wasted shots.
also now they think of themselves at war, humanity first came to that conclusion 18 years ago.
God the entire bioweapon thing is fittingly bone chilling
I am become death, destroyer of worlds
Have to imagine the shore patrol gets antsy when they hear Hades and Scourge are rolling in.
We all should know by now which Councilor is going to INSIST that they be the one to carry the ball to the alien base now don't we muahahahahah!!!
Interesting decision to name your giant warships after your top-secret councillors...
I love how the name of the virus is called the "Shiva" virus, it's a cheeky reference to Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
I'm pretty sure the Max was destroyed mostly by cooking itself to death, not alien fire, although I don't know exactly what got the last hit in. It lost its radiator very early on in the combat and started taking internal damage all over after it saturated its heat sink. Two other ships in the combat also lost their radiators toward the end and would have met the same fate if it had gone on any longer. Especially with very large ships, you need to be careful about pulling radiators in on ships that are taking fire, and you need to make sure they have the heat sink capacity to fight for more than a minute or two before having to extend them.
Extended radiators are considered unarmored and IIRC the best radiators still have a 1% chance to be hit by any hits against the ship, so it doesn't matter if you have a huge ship with a million points of armor, your ship can still be killed by taking a large volume of fire if you leave the radiators out. That's one of the big problems with the 'small numbers of unescorted massive ships' fleet composition - oversized ships have oversized reactors that produce so much waste heat that it saturates their heat sinks very quickly, so they can't avoid extending their radiators if they're taking fire for extended periods. To avoid taking losses from heat you need to pull in radiators on ships that are taking focused fire and withdraw them from combat if their heat sinks are nearing saturation. Instead of having titans get up close and take lots of fire, you need a screen of smaller ships that can sink heat for a long time up in front, and your titans should stay at extreme range where they won't take high volumes of fire.
Fascinating - i should have been watching the ship more closely. I can look at solving that from an engineering perspective with more heat sinking, but I don't think you can retract tin droplet radiators at all
Hey Perun, fellow Terra Invicta player here! I gotta say that your playthrough has really helped me in my game.
however if you have the free time I’d really like to see a short video tutorial on how to obtain such a large science income and what technology to rush for,
you always seem to know what technologies to go for and it gets kinda hard going back through your playthrough to see what exactly you did
Can you target non-defenses in anti-station fights? It seems at a glance that targeting power stations might be faster with that many defense locations.
So a query on attacking space stations with defence arrays: Can you ignore the defences, target power generation and take out the defences that way or is it not an option?
(Guessing offhand that it doesn't even let you target anything else)
Other question: Why not take advantage of the further mass saving of using Exotic armour just on the sides?
I watch your video like I watch my shows. I get exited every time one releases.
By all rights, "Drop Bear" really ought to be the moniker of a Marine Frigate. Call them "Hogan's Heroes".
Have their battlecry be:"Leafs & Greens?!? THAT's What Bloody XENOS EAT!!""
Another reason to have already had marine buildings at all earth-luna stations and colonies, is that enemy factions dont need ships to send their councilors to any of your facilities in the earth-luna system. Once you have lost one base to enemy control space asset, you become paranoid, lol.
Didn't you previously mention that the aliens self-destruct their bases rather than letting you capture them? Is their main base at Makemake an exception? I guess it would have to be or they'll blow up their own wormhole.
If they blow up the worm hole then the rest of them will be cut off so either way they're fucked if HF get to Makemake
@@dean_l33 If they blow it up, they can open one later, which is why HF wants to yk, genocide them.
@@dean_l33 still the better option, considering HF's absolute zero-Fs-given ruthless attitude.
Max: 'Press F to pay respects, I suppose'
Hanse: 'There is no such letter on my keyboard!'
Max: 'Our faction literally has the letter in its name, though..?'
Hanse: *scowls, then grins with a sabretooth tiger's smile*
@@dean_l33 True but it would prevent HF from delivering their generous 'care package' through the wormhole. I'm betting the Makemake base will be the exception and HF's marines will be able to take it in tact.
@@kerravon4159 But they don't know HF has something so deadly against them.
Skipping ahead- haven't caught up yet. Thanks for making these, they're great.
As for the final mission, it’s pretty much a coup and a hilarious number of assassination missions all rolled into one...
I'm guessing HF's public opinion campaign in China was greatly helped by the fact they just went and done things to alien mommaship any of the alien offspring would be deeply uncomfortable with. All the while Protectorate concilors keep going to this one particular bridge to shoot themselves in the back of the head.
Sending something through the hole is exactly the plot of the orginial Stargate. Could have turned out to not be the best idea ;)
A coil round killed that last mothership. They are devastating against large targets that can't dodge.
Yeah the DPS is insane whenever they get through PD - I think what often happens is you end up disabling PD using things like plasma and phasers, and then coils get through
29:33 Shiva Virus. destroyer of all, The God who ends creation. I approve
Question: Would it be more effective to target the base's power structures and batteries so that the defense lasers/phasers and other offensive systems no longer have power to send beam weapons against the attacking fleet? Also, it seems that the formation issues place you at a significant tactical disadvantage. You need all ships clustered together to assist one another and also place attacking missiles/rods in clusters to overwhelm enemy defenses. Grats on the military successes and uniting the Eurasian Union!
Given that only the defenses appear in the list of enemy combatants I'd imagine you can't target """civilian""" parts of the station.