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

[ExChairman]

A certain spoiler race, with a 200000 ton ship has a planet garrisoned with a combat value of 520... Is this new? Never seen it before?

[smoelf]

My star map is starting to look quite interesting. Not long ago there were still three unexplored jump points in the Gypsum system, which at that point was accessible through Lancaster. Sending a survey ship through revealed a new connection to my home system, Aldor. Which is awesome, because Gypsum contains several colonizable bodies and an abundance of minerals at decent accessibility, and until now it was a 30 billion km trip. That has been reduced to 8 billion km! Step are taken to ensure the security of the system and initiate colonizing effort. Of the last two unexplored jump points, one also led to a known system, Potgietersus, and the last led to a nebula, that is being ignored for now. A few other jump points also established new connections, so there are a lot of places that now have easier access.

I've also recently reached magneto plasma tech and have begun upgrading my fleet. Hopefully I will finally be able to take care of the last few precursor ships in Lamon, before scouting out and invading Allyuen. I have begun designing a proto-type of my new class of bio-warfare capital ships.

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Force Elemental class Capital Terraformer    194 400 tons     974 Crew     7851.6 BP      TCS 3888  TH 4800  EM 0
1234 km/s     Armour 10-298     Shields 0-0     Sensors 5/5/0/0     Damage Control Rating 1     PPV 0
MSP 25    Max Repair 500 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 24 months    Spare Berths 0   
Terraformer: 5 module(s) producing 0.0125 atm per annum

320 EP Commercial Magneto-plasma Drive (15)    Power 320    Fuel Use 3.04%    Signature 320    Exp 4%
Fuel Capacity 3 000 000 Litres    Range 91.3 billion km   (856 days at full power)

CIWS-120 (20x6)    Range 1000 km     TS: 12000 km/s     ROF 5       Base 50% To Hit
Thermal Sensor TH1-5 (1)     Sensitivity 5     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  5m km
EM Detection Sensor EM1-5 (1)     Sensitivity 5     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  5m km

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
They will of course be accompanied by meson points defence cruisers, while my main fleet takes care of offensive ships

[TheDeadlyShoe]

Truce timer expired a while ago, i was unsure if this cold war would ever go hot but it happened rather suddenly

The largest Eurasian vessel being a carrier was an unwelcome surprise. 288 missiles made it through the gauss curtain and CIWS mounts with strength 10 hits, killing 90 million people and wiping out half of my industrial strength (as well as 160,000 tons of PDCs; fortunately, one PDC survived the barrage intact). Radiation and dust will blanket the earth for years to come.   Fortunately, at least half the Eurasian fleet left for an unknown objective last year; it is unknown whether they will come back or if they are slowly driftin wreckage orbiting an alien sun.

[IanD]

Truce timer expired a while ago, i was unsure if this cold war would ever go hot but it happened rather suddenly

The largest Eurasian vessel being a carrier was an unwelcome surprise. 288 missiles made it through the gauss curtain and CIWS mounts with strength 10 hits, killing 90 million people and wiping out half of my industrial strength (as well as 160,000 tons of PDCs; fortunately, one PDC survived the barrage intact). Radiation and dust will blanket the earth for years to come.   Fortunately, at least half the Eurasian fleet left for an unknown objective last year; it is unknown whether they will come back or if they are slowly driftin wreckage orbiting an alien sun.

Or worse, being turned into several hundred spoilers which will eventually bite you when you find them!
Ian

[NuclearStudent]

Or worse, being turned into several hundred spoilers which will eventually bite you when you find them!
Ian

The small squishy spoilers are fine, because they can be kited and killed fairly easily.

Surprisingly, it's the middling drones I hate.

[Haji]

I found myself in a situation when I have to manually target anti-missiles against incoming shipkillers. Not. Fun.

[NuclearStudent]

I found myself in a situation when I have to manually target anti-missiles against incoming shipkillers. Not. Fun.

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why and how?

[Haji]

The attacking fleet has been using a mixed strike of shipkillers and anti-missiles in offensive mode. The defending fleet had more or less enough launchers and ammunition to deal with shipkillers, but not them and anti-missiles both. And of course the automated targeting would try to intercept everything and the first time when I tried the battle out, I lost the entire defending fleet. So I had to go ahead and manually target the shipkillers while leaving anti-missiles for gauss cannons and railguns. Not. Fun.

[IanD]

The small squishy spoilers are fine, because they can be kited and killed fairly easily.

Surprisingly, it's the middling drones I hate.

The last time I found a couple of swarm systems they contained >10,000 drones because an Earth based NPR plus at least one other NPR had been feeding them ships for about 10 years.

How sad I am doing this on Christmas day!!

[GodEmperor]

The last time I found a couple of swarm systems they contained >10,000 drones because an Earth based NPR plus at least one other NPR had been feeding them ships for about 10 years.

How sad I am doing this on Christmas day!!

Wait a god damned minute : Swarm actually feeds on ships they destroy ?

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[Zincat]

Wait a god damned minute : Swarm actually feeds on ships they destroy ?

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Yes they do. When you attack them, better make it count and kill them, or next time the zombies will rise. Errr.. the minerals will be used. Against you. Don't do that, don't feed the swarm

[sloanjh]

Quick reminder:

Please remember to add spoiler tags copiously to things that touch on unexpected game events.  Simply spoilering the name of the race doesn't really help if the behaviors are described in the clear....

Thanks,
John

[MarcAFK]

 Chryssalids man, they just wiped my entire squad with those zombies. What? Oh I'm getting my forums mixed up. Use spoilers guys!

[83athom]

I set auto-turn with the min-increment set to 10 because a geo-survey ship of mine encountered an enemy geo-survey ship, and they kept spotting and loosing each other causing interrupts. To my dismay, I did not notice the enemy fleet that just appeared right next to my force. One destroyer, with 6 layers of armor, has basically no armor pieces left on it and several other ships have varying (but lighter) damage. There is also an active sensor contact further out in the system that is spotting my fleet that is far outside my sensor range.

[83athom]

The closest grouping was destroyed without incidence. However when I dispatched all the frigates towards the larger grouping farther in the system (my frigates are 2x as fast as the rest of my force, and almost 4x as fast as the enemy), one of my frigates just took 23 strength 9 missile hits... and its still combat capable . They've all been ordered to turn around and rejoin the central force, and get into the AMM defense manifold of the cruiser and destroyers. I think I'll just have them hunker down until the relief force with more cruisers and destroyers arrive along with support ships.