What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?

[Drgong]

It think that (along with docking a loaded carrier) is one of that situations where you can break out the SM for self-interested purposes and still go to wargamer heaven.

Still not sure how to use SM to spawn ships - And not used carriers but I will remember not to dock a loaded carrier 

[TheDeadlyShoe]

Spacemaster menu -> Fast OB Creation

[xeryon]

Yeah, don't think of Spacemaster Mode as cheating either.  You can use it to set up scenarios to play out as well as correct computer user errors that will occur.  Aurora is a complicated program and mistakes that are extraneous to the scenario happen all the time.

[AL]

Well, finally assembled the battle fleet and began my campaign against the alien menace... just in time to catch the latest batch of 5 second increments. Ah well, gotta just soldier on with auto-turns enabled for the next couple hours.

[drejr]

Started a new game. Second jump point exploration got popped. There was a serious Precursor infestation next door - fourteen ships including two 25,450 tonners, magnetic fusion, compressed carbon armor, 362m km missiles with size 16 warheads. I didn't have anything but some patrol ships and a squadron of fairly slow beam fighters. It took me nearly two years to build a respectable MPD fleet of four 24kt jump cruisers and eight 8kt destroyers. The fleet went in slow and quiet and jumped four destroyers not far from the jump point. Destroyed two with missiles, crippled the wounded survivors with beam fighters. I was forced to capture them with mobile infantry battalions since I didn't have marines yet for the drop modules I've taken to carrying in my cruisers for these kind of opportunities. They didn't have enough MSP to repair their engines! Then I realized they're 8500 tons and my carriers had 9000 tons of hangar space. I didn't want to press my luck so I grabbed them and ran to the jump point. Minor damage in the second battle and I didn't capture any more ships - the beam fighters were a little overzealous when they cut off the missile ships on their way to a cache on the first Venus-like planet of the system. They were also a little overzealous when they strafed ground forces on the planet's moon, but the planet had over 8000 very nasty missiles stockpiled and the second planet had bases guarding a deserted intact city, hopefully with a high tech level.

[Mastik]

    Critical shortages of corundium and mercassium, there just isnt much in the Sol system.  Refitting frigate fleet to Ion engines, and other improvements.  Sensors have spotted Invader survey craft in Human space.  Human fighters and missile-bombers have managed to keep Invader snooping to a minimum in the Sol system.  Sensor buoys on every known JP, and listening posts in the earth sector, are trying to keep track of Invader movements. 

[DattMuffinMan]

I don't know how I did it but I survived the start game in an 152 billion km diameter system.    I was very nearly out of fuel before the mining ships were just out the gate to start mining that precious Sorium located on the Gas giant in the inner system.    The asteroids are barren but luckily the moons and the 2 other terrestrials are gold mines of ore.   

However the future is ominous as two jump gates are siting waiting to be explored and two other jump points.    Right now in particular, my favorite scientist Norman Bach is nearing the completion of his Magnum Opus, an breakthrough into Exotic Antimatter energy technology(Totally going to create a new award in his name!).    Unfortanately though, I've had to saddle him with alot of Intertial Fusion engines that will be implemented in the new fleet.   

Fingers crossed I don't encounter any baddies in the first systems! My civilian infrastructure is severally hampered by the monolithic distances I have to travel and I only have about 3 million pop on the closest terrestrial to my homeworld, and it hasn't even begun terraforming.    XD

[Pixel1191]

Well, I've turned all those contact markers from earlier into wrecks.   An absolute staggering amount of missiles  And I think it's safe to assume that the "Suva Duchy" are now short a navy.   

1043700 combined tons of enemy ships destroyed in a single battle.    At the expense of just under 9000 missiles (both offense and defense) and the loss of three heavy cruisers and a six-pack of FACs.   

Whew.    Now on to missile production, Mars is gonna be busy. 

I've already recovered armor tech 2 levels above my own and a lot of geo/grav survey data just from the ~2000 enemy POWs who are now camping out on the flight decks of my carriers until they arrive at Earth.  Hoping for more stuff from Salvage, gonna be busy.

[Haji]

At the expense of just under 9000 missiles (both offense and defense) and the loss of three heavy cruisers and a six-pack of FACs.

In my recent battles I have used some thirty thousand missiles, both offensive and defensive. On one side. The other side used some ten thousand shipkillers and I honestly don't know how many anti-missiles, but several thousand at least. I wonder, has anyone here ever fought a battle where over a hundred thousand missiles have been expended?

[GodEmperor]

I don't know how I did it but I survived the start game in an 152 billion km diameter system.    SNAP.

Care to share a save ??

In my recent battles I have used some thirty thousand missiles, both offensive and defensive. On one side. The other side used some ten thousand shipkillers and I honestly don't know how many anti-missiles, but several thousand at least. I wonder, has anyone here ever fought a battle where over a hundred thousand missiles have been expended?

Thats some serious Honor Harrington smeg right there ...
I once had a "battle" where i used multiple Interplanetary MIRV's. 15 000 ground bursts explosions reduced 500m civilization to rubble in seconds and made the planet totally uninhabitable ( IIRC - 150 % industry and -200 Celcius average temp ).

In my game :

NATO overrun both Soviets and Pan Asian Trade Coalition.
Its goal : to unite humanity to face the Amol Hegemony, aliens that have destroyed so much of Maritime Group 3...
Now im teching like crazy and building new stuff, while terraforming Europa and one other planet in Honolulu system. And i also have a beach planet/tourist resort in the Boston system - colony cost 0 planet with average temp 22C and liquid hydrosphere but not a ton of TN mineral in the whole system..

Next step : proper fleet and little trip to the homeworld of Amol Hegemony for good old fashioned xeno-ass kicking !

[Haji]

Thats some serious Honor Harrington smeg right there ...
I once had a "battle" where i used multiple Interplanetary MIRV's. 15 000 ground bursts explosions reduced 500m civilization to rubble in seconds and made the planet totally uninhabitable ( IIRC - 150 % industry and -200 Celcius average temp ).

My biggest salvo so far was around sixty five hundred shipkillers fired at once so not even close to the honorverse, but I hope to up it in the future, as my campaign is still ongoing and increasing in scope.
As for the bombardment I unfortunately no longer have the screenshot but I once nuked a planet so hard the temperature fell below absolute zero. Yes, the Aurora has a bug where you can nuke or terraform planet so hard it breaks the known laws of physics.

[GodEmperor]

My biggest salvo so far was around sixty five hundred shipkillers fired at once so not even close to the honorverse, but I hope to up it in the future, as my campaign is still ongoing and increasing in scope.
As for the bombardment I unfortunately no longer have the screenshot but I once nuked a planet so hard the temperature fell below absolute zero. Yes, the Aurora has a bug where you can nuke or terraform planet so hard it breaks the known laws of physics.

I remember someone posting here, an NPR shooting at him with 4k missiles per salvo ...

As for terraforming below absolute zero - IIRC its because there is no cap for the anti-greenhouse gas
PUN INCOMING : that's cold man... *ba dum tss*

[Mastik]

Carnage;

watching a 16,000T warship plummet through the atmosphere and destroy a sensor base.  Then moments later watch a 2nd one destroy a fighter base. These 2 ships had at least 25 PD weapons each, shot down 97% of my ASMs.  3-39000T ships now freely roam Sol, after obliterating everything.  [Energy weapon Impact:  Strength 58-63 Detected] from 773,900km is not something you want to see.  Each ship can fire 11 bolts.  Dozens of ASM impacts barely slowed them down.

I love the Invaders 

[GodEmperor]

Breaking news - civilians are dumb as bricks .. Yeah Ahmed, trying to trade with one empire when another, bigger and hostile from the start is not even in the same system but on the same planet, was a frakking terriffic idea. You will make smegload of bucks in no time.

Only positive side of that is that before they die they will provide some actual intel from the system - they for example detected almost 80 fighters.. My own carrier project just got some serious funding.

P.s. I was just granted trade access by the Unknown Empire .. Should i be scared ?

[DattMuffinMan]

P.  s.   I was just granted trade access by the Unknown Empire .  .   Should i be scared ?

Nah, they just want all your Nuka Cola.   

On my end of the universe I just started exploring the Jump gates as my Navy is only about 1 year from completion.   All I have for now as an 50k ton Escort carrier sitting in orbit of my HW. 

The first system was disappointing.   Only an single dwarf planet, lets hope there's more jumpoints from here though. 

The second system was, alot more interesting.   It is vastly smaller compared to the distance my HW has to deal with AND, to top off the icing on the cake there are two Terrestrials with under 3.  00 cost.   The most habitable being a cost of 1.  50. 

The problem is though there is a wreck around that very planet, not to mention my turn intervals slowed probably due to their being another fleet in the system.   Precursors? The Swarm? Maybe even another Alien race? I don't know for sure.   But I think it would be wise to pull back station my Escort carrier on that Jump point and wait until I have an real Naval Task force put together before I start poking at dead things with a stick. 

Edit: Yep Aliens, I encountered them just before I pulled out.  Boy oh boy oh boy.