"One of the least studied components of the Jovian campaign was the logistics effort put towards supplying it. This is partly because of the sheer scale of the topic, with supply hubs located across the inner planets, the asteroid belt, and more, but also because it's largely, visibly unglorious. Very few tugs, of the Mudgee Vintage class, actually saw combat and the few that did were, rather swiftly, destroyed. But no less than three thousand ships of this class saw service during the Jovian campaign. Largely designed for raw material transport, the modularity of the class meant they hauled hydrogen, food stuffs, consumer goods, and all of the industrial goods needed to maintain Battlefleet Jupiter and the Fortress Station. Totaling more than forty thousand tons of dry goods and as much as five times that in fuel alone, these men and women risked their lives to keep the supply lines intact and moving. So to all the brave sailors of Logistics Corp Jove, we salute you!"
This was actually true for real wars too. Aside from the particularly famous example of America's Ice Cream Ships in WW2. Mind you, only one of them is confirmed to have actually been dedicated to ONLY ice cream. They usually prepared preserved/condensed food materiel to a stage where it could be prepared the rest of the way on ships themselves. These ships were interesting in that they had hulls made of concrete to save on metal, since they were not intended to see combat.
@@Fabel555 It’s called Perun I believe. It’s a defense industry analysis channel. He’s done some very in depth analysis on real world topics involving the defense industry.
Lucky for you I have been counting at home. Current Record is 22 Kills for TF-JUPITER, 8 for MELBOURNE, and 7 for PERTH. 15 of JUPITER's kills were in the March Scramble when it was operating alone. Edit: I believe Sydney has also monched 2 Agents in that time period. This is also done manually, and I may have missed or misattributed some kills.
@Jack Ryan I would say yes and no, you need a balance between the two extremes or the ai would just blast through anything you create with doom fleets.
Doom fleets have their own weaknesses. Look at Victor-80. Ideally you swap from combined force to separate units, just like Perun did with his Jupiter forces splitting in 3. But don't make ai too smart or we all just lose. Lol
@@tristanridley1601 That's kind of why I THINK they're doing this piecemeal attempt to reinforce Jupiter; they have 80 and it's shown to be ineffective, and now it's been gutted due to the raids in the asteroid belt. I wonder if the AI is now changing again and is preparing to try and counter these interdictions with those Assault Carriers.
@@mankiller3040 If so, that's fairly realistic. And always being ready with the response to the response to your current units/strategy is a great way to win a war IRL.
@Jack Ryan The outer system is scattered and would require the entire fleet to move at the speed of the slowest vessels (Motherships). The AI would still need havens close enough to refuel to maintain operations. Or they'd only be able to hit 1 or 2 targets at a time and return to the outer system. That wouldn't even dent the player's build speed. Which is why I've called Jupiter Perun's Guadalcanal campaign. If he maintains his Henderson Field (Io Fortress) long enough, the economy of the Inner System will outpace that of the Outer. Especially since the Servants and Protectorate are spent forces.
"The online shopping guy and the electric car guy can squabble over Mars all they like, but that's just selling humanity short. Trust me, we can do so much better". - Project Exodus Musk and Bezos in shambles. Gotta do an Exodus run now. 2:23
There is an auto-pause option that will alert you when a fleet is ready for orders again. That way you can just run the clock and get the pop up the moment it's ready. No more trying to watch the clock. Under Gameplay "Pause and alert when fleet status updates"
“Wars aren’t won on soldiers alone, you know. We’ve got a damn fine fleet full of damn fine soldiers, but none of that would be possible without all of you. Keep it up, you magnificent engineering bastards.” -Hans Castillo, in a short speech recorded for the ignition of the first supercollider.
Museum ships? Heresy! Every sailor on them already has more medals than a North Korean general. They are turning the Jovian system into a big hydra scrap yard. The mere presence of those two battleships will demoralize any Xenos that finds itself near them. They should be the flag ships of the mightiest battlefleets humanity produces. And when their hulls are no longer able to cope with the enemy, the least humanity can do is erect a titan hull around each of them.
Looking at how this operation is shaping up, it does feel like the game could do with the option of adding tender vessels: Ships that can help refuel, rearm and, to an extent, repair vessels, perhaps it could exist in the form of auxiliary resupply modules that you could add to them. It'd definitely add an extra facet to combat, particularly if the aliens had access to them too.
I would be content, if the game added the option to give new orders to ships after the won a Battle. I have my RapidStrikeForce2 (3 Superfast Nuketorp Battleships) stuck for a year gliding towords Homea, after intercepting some retreating forces. After the Battle, the assumed the speed and course of the enemy, so the crawl all the way to Homea. They could have make the return leg in only a few weeks. By the time the actually reach Homea, the war is probably gonna be almost over. By then i will have roughly put 60k worth of Superdreadnaughts into service. It's not that bad, the are only "Cheap"-class. And their 6 sisterships, meanwhile have nuked any alien groundbases up to jupiter to bits. I just really hope the game doesn't crash on me again, when i soon engage in full scale battles. Good thing i don't have any lack of mission control, otherwise i would really hate them taking up 9 MC and doing nothing.
That is really well done. i nuked the living "sh*t" out of them, know they boost much better point defense on their vessels. and they're bases and stations are almost only defense structures. ground base has 73k of on paper combat power (actually = 0, they lack point defense, so nukes always level them easily), stations got 5k, but actually much more. they have so many plasma weapons, they chew trough 40 nose armor of my dreadnaughts in no time. but they can't afford those on their ships, and stations without mines and ships are basically just a drag on their economy.
So I sit here in a quiet room, finally relieved that my brethren have arrived from earth in yet more Battlecruisers. The imposing shapes flit past my window as we orbit Jupiter at thousands of KM per hour. if you told me that 30 years after I closed EVE for the last time, as "spreadsheet spaceships" as we called it lost my interest, that I, a 4F recruit, would now be sitting here waiting for some sort of command position, would not only be looking at real spacecraft, but ones that are manned past Luna, and armed to the teeth, I'd have laughed at you. That we would need such things, as humans would be too busy fighting each other on earth to arm deeper solar space, has shown just how little we in all our glorious scientific achievements really knew in 2022. I got lucky, a slightly maniacal man who called himself "Just A Colonel" was on the same space rehab and medical station in LEO, and we got to playing war games and strategizing about ways to take over the earth, and space if we could. One day he walked in with a few more doctors, and a few "suits" and asked me to look at a guerrilla style battle plan that "I just had to chew on for him"., I asked jokingly if i needed my well worn copy of "Ender's Game" and could I get the evening to look at the war game in my bunk. The "suits" froze and one spoke up saying "No one was to leave the room with knowledge of this plan unless It was in a body bag." I laughed, god I laughed out loud at that man saying those words, but suddenly guns appeared aimed at me! Doctors brought in a "pheremone detector" to make sure I was "OK", and until the all clear was given, the "suits" never wavered in their aim... Suddenly Mr. Castillo raised an arm in a halting motion, and suggested we go back to his room to chat about the plans. If God has a sense of irony, he used it now, for while the gravity of Earth is what held me back in serving my country the USA at the time, now the ... USNA? to be honest I can't keep track of the name of the governments now, but now that gravity isn't holding me back physically from serving in space, the sheer gravity of the battleplans I am to craft have left me nearly crushed. Before I left earth i emailed a few friends and guild/corpmates of various MMORPG's, and while many had no response, one did, and when I told Hans (he told me to drop the rank BS) who it was he grinned broadly and said" yeah I know of that Max guy too, he is really good at pawn removal. He wouldn't explain when I asked further why he wouldn't invite him to play games with us as a group. I finally got the call, It is time to leave my habroom and start working in real time with the battlefleets. May god have mercy on the alien souls, because I have been thoroughly planning out how not only to deliver them to him, but to keep us all alive.... Name withheld: Jovian system battlegroup, Humanity First
@@PerunGamingAU Would a fission only run sound like a fun challenge? maybe it's a bit too RNG dependant but there are engines good enough to carry you through the game
Your fight around Jupiter reminds me of the Americans at the start of the Pacific campaign. Buying time with an understrength force. Building up a steamroller in the meantime.
The only reason I am doing as well as I am in my Resistance run is because of these videos. Thank you so much, and I really hope someone writes up a dramatic narrative of the Jupiter Campaign. Utterly enthralling!
By now the crews of the Hades and Scourge probably aren't celebrating victories anymore. Destroying Xenos fleets is just another day in the office for them. They know they can't slack off, but they know they're up to the task at hand quite comfortably
Hell, that one time they misidentified a Hydra plasma-ship led to the worst casualties and damage the ship ever suffered was likely a the product of sleep deprivation/exhaustion in-universe, so that likely has had major effects on operations procedures, the Earth fleet reinforcements taking some of the load off them likely has helped alot as well.
Why do I hear something like a rifle bolt or a pistol slide clacking in the background at 3:06 right when Perun says "My plan is to eliminate the last Hydra operatives instead" ? :D
Just a request from a fellow sci-fi lover, next time you design a big brawler class could we get a Donnager-Class or at least a named major vessel. I for one would be excited to see the Donny get another shot as the flagship of the Jupiter fleet. Just a suggestion, loving the series. Great work on both channels!
@@caspianvonliechtenstein6517 technically THIS is the second channel, @Perun is the main channel, is the best military analysis that you can have without having to be on a Army force
Silence. Oxymoronic and somewhat disturbing compared to what was happening in the vaccumed ready bay of the drop ship dispatched from an ANZAC class in Vesta orbit. The marines inside were used to the clicks and whirrs of their Coilrifles, used to it from training back on Luna, it was chisled into their minds, so much so that they could just imagine it, and so they did. They imagined the rattling of the tungsten alloy penetrators in their sabots, the metal alloy clanging from the magazine hooking into the catch. Then, as their gloved fingers flicked the power switch, imagined hearing the buzzing whirr of the coils being charged by the liquid battery, it was the sound of twenty five megajoules of energy purposed entirely for xenocide, the "purr" as Colonel Castillo called it. There was some actual noise, their suits, but it was drowned out, this time by that same training. The sound of their oxygen recyclers working constantly, the climate control buzzing and keeping their bodies cool. Then the electronics whirring and beeping as new information flowed to them from their heads up displays, a pane of transparent golden metal seperating them from the void of space. The exoskeletons on the other hand made no noise, in atmo-warfare, you didn't want them to, but the Marines imagined that they made hydraulic noises and metallic clicks all the same, it helped the nerves. Regardless of those nerves, the comms were still abuzz with whoops and hollers that whatever xenos they met would undoubtedly meet the end of a tungsten slug hitting them at more than a couple kilometers a second. Then the light went green, and all those noises stopped. Heavy breathing, pupils dilating, sweating in spite of the climate control, a nervous swallow as they tasted again what they ate not long ago. The sergeant raised three fingers as he held his hand to the side of his helmet, dropped one, dropped two, then all three. The bay door dropped down fast, they were embraced by the white light of the sun which washed away the darkness of the ready bay, as if Sol Invictus themselves were standing infront of them. Then their helmets polarized, darkened, and the cratered barren landscape of Vesta was laid before them, a dark blanket over the entire sky with not a star in sight, and only a few hundred meters away the Hydra base. Their legs carried them away almost automatically, instinct, get out of the kill zone. Still complete silence, only rapid breathing. Flashes of green light, plasma, dust kicking up and cascading the rays of the sun. Recoil impulses, tungsten slug after tungsten slug firing, a red tracer following after as sparks exploded off the side of the black exterior of the base. Two life signs in the upper right went red, one after the other, a man or woman returned to ashes, "stop looking at it and shoot!" they imagined Castillo to yell. Move up, fall into a crater, climb out, grazed by a green ball of glowing excited gas, move and shoot as the Coilrifle pushes them back, a hydra loses their arm and their head, slowly falling to the grey dusty ground as the gravity pulls to their grave. Then the final stretch, ten of them left from the original twelve. Never mind the numbers, as one of them pulls out a compact breaching charge and affixes it to the airlock door they stacked up upon. For a brief moment sound could be heard again as the oxygen was vented out of the building, a white cloud appearing briefly from the door as if the base were giving it's last exhale. Go in. they couldn't look back or hesitate now, as the Marines filed into the base. Four more life signs went red as rooms were cleared, surprises occured, mistakes made. Green flashes of light met with the sudden impact of a slug to the vital areas they were taught to aim for, three rapid shots at each of it's hearts, and one to the head if that didn't work. Mozambique adopted for Aliens. The last room, the Sergeant shoots the door open, then the hallway is washed with a blinding green light, and in that literal flash they are torn in half as their still burning ashes flutter in the vaccum along with molten metal. A brick of high explosives is thrown within as a marine clutches onto a detonator. In the brief flash of explosive light, their eyes are revealed through the polarized transparent metal of the visor. They're crying.
“Space warfare is a bizarre thing really, early sci-fi would have you believe it’s all zooming around in slick spaceships almost dogfighting with enemy vessels. The truth is that it’s more akin to submarine warfare, you wait, you plan, you strike when you think you have the advantage and hope you get them before they get you. I was given command of the hydra around the time HF-Terra arrived to support us. My first command in battle an enemy plasma bolt blew out a section of the hull, 10 dead, I’ll never forget those brave folks, no one else will too, I made sure they’re names were inscribed on the hull, and on a few mag rounds for good measure.” Interview with Rear Admiral Druganov, 2050
Awesome continuation of the Jovian theatre. Cant wait to see if your Auckland design can crack open those single (unescorted) Motherships. I feel the key going foward is your ability to destroy those mining stations and orbital defense in the asteroid belt. So far they have not invaded earth (yet). Since they are trying their best to secure resources. Their exotic supply is dwindling. I cant believe they still have the ability to keep building ships with how many ships and exotics you have destroyed and taken.
I'm so impressed with your production speed, especially since you cut out a lot of the bits that are less exciting. I feel like I barely have time to watch one video and the next goes up. You must really enjoy this game at the pace you're playing. :)
"Introduce the aliens to the concept of nuclear weapons" I can't think of much on this series that I would enjoy more than watching an impossibly expensive alien mothership vanish in a nuclear fireball to a few cheap missile boats.
TEMPO TEMPO TEMPO I'm genuinely impressed by the alien AI. They're not omniscient, but they do make mostly logical decisions responding to your actions. Possibly the best AI since the Unity of Command series.
Perun, I think if you can choose different formations at the bottom of the deployment screen. When the Melbourne was well ahead of the other 2 ships, you went into that battle with a 'Cloud' formation. I've seen this in other battles with the same exact ship type, it still has one slightly staggered behind the other. Other battles you've gone into with 'Line' formation and it had every ship neatly stacked together. Something to consider and play around with. The other 3 settings might help more as well.
The kind of funny thing I find is that each "unit" of antimatter is probably like 1-3 grams, sounds insignificant but 1-3 grams of antimatter has a more powerful real life energy yield than the most powerful nuclear weapon ever constructed. Easily enough to glass a large city or a medium sized island.
I just love that you are from Australia for the simple reason when you upload is usually 9 AM for me so a good breakfast while watching humanity purge the xeno threat is a great way to start the day
I’m curious how many supply ships would be needed to keep IO fortress and the Jupiter’s fleet going . So much food, water, ammo, fuel and fress recruits on top of construction materials constantly flowing in. I would guess there’s multiple hundreds of transport ships and supply rockets at this point.
You gotta wonder what they're planning to do up in Makemake. Consolidating into a deathball? If so, they still have their fuel issues to overcome. Definitively need a patch for fuel resupply, though. Anyway, great showing! Certainly the best terra invicta series there is atm.
16:08 - "We have 80 forward armor on our dreadnoughts/battlecruisers" ...Dear god. What the hell can even destroy that outside of antimatter/nuclear weapons?
I bet it feels really good to have hit a stage of the game you hadn't gotten to before and then fight a campaign in Jupiter that will taught in the xenos' naval academy.
"This is the voice of the Mysterons... We know you can hear us Earth-men.... We will continue our war of retribution after your attack on our complex."
Wow, you have such a nice community and you actually read the comments and listen to the ideas and mention the fun things people say! I loved watching all the way thru to this point. If I could ask would it be possible to zoom in more on the ships to see the details of shooting or getting shot once the micro of a battle is over? (Like when there is only one ship left) Anyway even if it isn't possible thank you so much for the videos! =)
TF-ANZAC is a brilliant master stroke - you've forced the Xenos to split their forces between 2 competing sectors for a significantly cheaper fleet. That reduces the Jovian reinforcements to a size ripe for interception, buying you more time to build up your fleet. Jupiter is inching closer towards your sphere of influence.
I'm not sure the strategic situation is playing out that way. The marine transports encountered a dreadnaught and had a corvette show up in system. That kind of alien composition would only take a lazy afternoon for one of the Jupiter battlefleets to take care of.
I think making siege ships is more important than mother ship busters. You can already handle mother ships by screwing with their limited delta V, so they provide no real threat however eliminating bases removes Xenos strategic depth and limits their logistical ability.
21:20 reminds me of "Rise of an Empire". In the book they had found similar issues when it came to fighting. Albeit they had changing moments in what was effective. For example missiles were kind of bad until they developed the Skim Drives which allowed stuff to go into hyperspace even inside of solar systems. Then missiles were suddenly the MVP as the skimmed in ftl really close to the enemy ships and would only then be capable of being shot out of the sky. This worsened by the fact that the skims made massive EMP waves. Lasers were incredible until the Shimmer Armor was invented whereas the heat would be spread through the entire ships hulls and most of the laser being reflected. The skim missiles fell off when tech came into play that allowed to destroy missiles within the subspace. Railguns kept being genereally useful. Usually by just shooting hundreds of thousands of rounds to get a couple hits in.
Regarding antimatter for free in Jupiter/Saturn: The base antimatter unit is metric tons. The antimatter in orbits from cosmic rays you can grab with antimatter farms is a different unit - *micrograms* per year. There is a 12 orders of magnitude difference in units and the only notation is buried in a tooltip. It's a stupid trap.
12 orders of magnitude make it absolutely incomparable. 14 bases would produce as much antimatter in one year as would one farm produce since the beginning of the universe. 😀
Its seems increasingly that Hans Castille might be the Emperor of Mankind. Fighting religious lunatics, Check. Uniting Earth, Check. Technological meritocratic approach to governance, Check. Masterful tactician, and strategist, Check. Destroying Aliens with seeming ease, Check. And he still look as young as ever.
I hope that either you have regular saves or the game has a civ-style time series analysis of the game. I really want to see the ramp up in production, xenos activity, and even things (indirectly) as mundane as the operation of the mass drivers moving resources throughout the solar system.
I think the idea should be to identify whether their bottleneck to ship production is materials or space docks and then try to kill as many as possible of what is holding them back the most
I like the aliens having all that sunk cost into motherships I saiy keep it that way. you’ll be able to pick the time dand the place for the first fleet battle/mothership engagement there’s no rush you can’t sustain repeated fleet battle yet. Knocking out those inner system bases of theirs I think is the best focus. They lose strategic positioning and waste delta flying in from makemake with lots of advanced warning. Nice run so far!
I kind of accidently killed a mothership in an earlier run. I got a massive retaliation from the aliens before being remotely ready for it. I had a fleet of 10 L1 escorts with some PD and missiles plus a L2 station with two L2 defense plattforms attached. All of them died, but they put enough missiles into the vacuum to take down the mothership before it reached firing range on the station. It was charging ahead of her fleet for some reason and demolished like half of my ships. The alien fleet then took care of the rest of my ships and the station and actually lost one of their other ships by crashing into the wreckage of one of my ships. The entire battle was rather odd.
A very exciting episode, again! The fight of the Jupiter squadron was simply glorious and I am very much looking forward what the Earth forces are going to develop next, ship-wise. I can't wait to see the first titan ships, when the turns will have tabled...! Godspeed to the forces of Earth and Humanity First! 👍
Highly enjoyable episode. Love how even with your fleets putting down wave after wave of xeno ships their industrial output is such that they're still at pretty much unchanged total fleet strength. Their industrial base in the inner solar system has to go.
@PerunGamingAU Until a patch goes through to increase antimatter farm rate around Jupiter, don't even bother with the farm. A maxed out collection station (4 defense modules) collects fento-units per month.
19:09 No matter what they are classed change it to one of the wall type formations instead of cloud Tight then Heavies Center see if that fixes your formation issues. It just just create a mutually supporting wall of 2 high ships I ussually use it with 3 ships as all ships can support each other 3 high ships I use this on fleets of 9 or 5 high ship stacks anything above that. I would try it In the skirmish battle and mess around with it just load your save file of your game.
So the aliens are beginning to adapt to your ships, and you adapt to theirs....an arms race in action! Also they DO have you massively out gunned on paper, but a lot of that combat power is unable to be brought to bear. How much of it is in those motherships and fleets that are outbound that can't return for another year? Force and firepower is only useful if it can be successfully brought into action, which is where you're gaining the upper hand(almost all of your fleet firepower is engaged, or easily brought into action). It's interesting that they're stringing in ships like they are, instead of forming up and moving units together.
With the advent of the alien plasma cannon the next-gen of warships might need some more of that dreaded side armor. IIRC the plasma cannon hull mounts do around 9.5 damage, so 10 side armor would make you shrug off the first few shots before armor chipping comes into play, but your going to face away the side anyways so chipping isn't probably a massive consideration there.
The reason why I think that you should make a fleet capable of cracking station is so that you can strand the mothership death fleets with no fuel resupply.
You're definitely going to need a ship class that can crack stations in the next couple years. Although, hopefully, you hitting their mining stations will also start constricting their ability to pump out ships (or at least continue to restrict them to pumping out a lot of trash).
The Mothership is a funny vessel. I've managed to destroy it early on on my very first run with 4 basic Monitors. I've player way too agressive, and atracted xeno wrath. At that point their by far most powerful taskforce was a Mothership itself. I've said my praiers to my poor fleet, only for it to come out on top. What happened was, the Mothership chaised my tiny fleet at full speed, regarding them as no threat. It ended up flying straight into a full missile salvo (with little time for its PD to work), and exploded. It had managed to snipe 2 of my Monitors, but only after they already relseasd most of their volleys. All 4 Monitors had Riverjack missiles (the smallest but most numerous early missiles), with no point defence. I've figured early designs won't survive anyway, so might as well give them as much of a punch as possibile. The reason I went with those particular missiles, was to overwhelm xeno PD with numbers of missiles. I don't remember how little resources I've spent, but the Mothership was no more.
To fix the ship type/category from "transport" - design an upgrade version with insignificant change (add/remove a single fuel tank or point of armor), change the ship type along the way, and refit the existing ships (should be a fast refit with such a small change)
I think the problem with missiles vs PD lategame is the way that missiles aren't 'smart'. The way you would try to saturate PD like this would be to dump missiles overboard with low throttle increasing as you fire, calculated to form a coordinated time on target salvo along with the rest of your fleet's missiles. A couple of magazines and trying to stay long range to give more time to deploy missile salvoes could result in just a few ships slamming 100+ missiles on the target as a single barrage.
Maybe those assault carriers were built to go to earth. But the Jovian campaign has been such a disaster for the aliens that all ships have been diverted there.
You have a habit of missing maneuver nodes, leaving gaps in your acceleration and allowing the aliens to control more than their fair share of the manuever game. You'll notice the path lines that remain green following unused manuever nodes such as at 13:18
For some reason comments were disabled for a moment - no idea why. Should be working now
It's always the best after waking up to watch this series! Keep it up!
I’ve noticed comments disabled on a few videos I’ve watched now. May be some new bug or setting change pushed by RUclips.
Perun is your discord open to ytb viewers or is it a private one
Fyi to fix the category issue all you need to do is refit them twice, once to change say a battery and then change it back while changing their type.
HEY: WHAT ABOUT TITANS!?
"One of the least studied components of the Jovian campaign was the logistics effort put towards supplying it. This is partly because of the sheer scale of the topic, with supply hubs located across the inner planets, the asteroid belt, and more, but also because it's largely, visibly unglorious. Very few tugs, of the Mudgee Vintage class, actually saw combat and the few that did were, rather swiftly, destroyed. But no less than three thousand ships of this class saw service during the Jovian campaign.
Largely designed for raw material transport, the modularity of the class meant they hauled hydrogen, food stuffs, consumer goods, and all of the industrial goods needed to maintain Battlefleet Jupiter and the Fortress Station. Totaling more than forty thousand tons of dry goods and as much as five times that in fuel alone, these men and women risked their lives to keep the supply lines intact and moving.
So to all the brave sailors of Logistics Corp Jove, we salute you!"
This was actually true for real wars too. Aside from the particularly famous example of America's Ice Cream Ships in WW2. Mind you, only one of them is confirmed to have actually been dedicated to ONLY ice cream. They usually prepared preserved/condensed food materiel to a stage where it could be prepared the rest of the way on ships themselves. These ships were interesting in that they had hulls made of concrete to save on metal, since they were not intended to see combat.
The herculean effort it must take to release these nightly along with your other channel's well-researched videos does not go unnoticed.
Which channels?
@@Fabel555 It’s called Perun I believe. It’s a defense industry analysis channel. He’s done some very in depth analysis on real world topics involving the defense industry.
For real, I don't know how he does it. The man's a legend.
@@elijahsnow3119 "Defense industry". Might aswell call it what it is, killing flesh industry...
I've been marvelling about that too, the man must be a master of time management.
Lucky for you I have been counting at home.
Current Record is 22 Kills for TF-JUPITER, 8 for MELBOURNE, and 7 for PERTH. 15 of JUPITER's kills were in the March Scramble when it was operating alone.
Edit: I believe Sydney has also monched 2 Agents in that time period. This is also done manually, and I may have missed or misattributed some kills.
This campaign has so far been a perfect example of defeat in detail, can't imagine the frustration in Hydra High Command over this.
@Jack Ryan I would say yes and no, you need a balance between the two extremes or the ai would just blast through anything you create with doom fleets.
Doom fleets have their own weaknesses. Look at Victor-80.
Ideally you swap from combined force to separate units, just like Perun did with his Jupiter forces splitting in 3. But don't make ai too smart or we all just lose. Lol
@@tristanridley1601 That's kind of why I THINK they're doing this piecemeal attempt to reinforce Jupiter; they have 80 and it's shown to be ineffective, and now it's been gutted due to the raids in the asteroid belt.
I wonder if the AI is now changing again and is preparing to try and counter these interdictions with those Assault Carriers.
@@mankiller3040 If so, that's fairly realistic. And always being ready with the response to the response to your current units/strategy is a great way to win a war IRL.
@Jack Ryan The outer system is scattered and would require the entire fleet to move at the speed of the slowest vessels (Motherships). The AI would still need havens close enough to refuel to maintain operations. Or they'd only be able to hit 1 or 2 targets at a time and return to the outer system. That wouldn't even dent the player's build speed.
Which is why I've called Jupiter Perun's Guadalcanal campaign. If he maintains his Henderson Field (Io Fortress) long enough, the economy of the Inner System will outpace that of the Outer. Especially since the Servants and Protectorate are spent forces.
"The online shopping guy and the electric car guy can squabble over Mars all they like, but that's just selling humanity short. Trust me, we can do so much better".
- Project Exodus
Musk and Bezos in shambles. Gotta do an Exodus run now.
2:23
Great catch! Love all the flavor text they put into this
this almos made me sign up to Exodus LMAO
I thought your comment was a paraphrase before I got to that point lol
There is an auto-pause option that will alert you when a fleet is ready for orders again. That way you can just run the clock and get the pop up the moment it's ready. No more trying to watch the clock. Under Gameplay "Pause and alert when fleet status updates"
this just improved my life
*makes note
Thanks for this - appreciate everyone pointing out the many buried gems in the UI 😆
“Wars aren’t won on soldiers alone, you know. We’ve got a damn fine fleet full of damn fine soldiers, but none of that would be possible without all of you. Keep it up, you magnificent engineering bastards.”
-Hans Castillo, in a short speech recorded for the ignition of the first supercollider.
If Hades and Scourge don't end up as museum ships, something is wrong.
Or they explode.
@@tristanridley1601 That's something that is wrong.
Museum ships? Heresy! Every sailor on them already has more medals than a North Korean general. They are turning the Jovian system into a big hydra scrap yard. The mere presence of those two battleships will demoralize any Xenos that finds itself near them. They should be the flag ships of the mightiest battlefleets humanity produces. And when their hulls are no longer able to cope with the enemy, the least humanity can do is erect a titan hull around each of them.
@@kaymish6178 Noble sacrifice to save the entire solar system from certain doom. But yeah it would have gone wrong.
Enterprise CV-6 was scrapped. Terrible shit happens in real life all the time.
Looking at how this operation is shaping up, it does feel like the game could do with the option of adding tender vessels: Ships that can help refuel, rearm and, to an extent, repair vessels, perhaps it could exist in the form of auxiliary resupply modules that you could add to them. It'd definitely add an extra facet to combat, particularly if the aliens had access to them too.
spoiler
there is a module that can be researched for repairs
I think there is something like it, response teams or something
I think the devs mentioned they're working on adding refueling in a later update
Tanker ships were mentioned in one of the patch notes as a planned thing, yeah.
I would be content, if the game added the option to give new orders to ships after the won a Battle. I have my RapidStrikeForce2 (3 Superfast Nuketorp Battleships) stuck for a year gliding towords Homea, after intercepting some retreating forces. After the Battle, the assumed the speed and course of the enemy, so the crawl all the way to Homea. They could have make the return leg in only a few weeks.
By the time the actually reach Homea, the war is probably gonna be almost over. By then i will have roughly put 60k worth of Superdreadnaughts into service.
It's not that bad, the are only "Cheap"-class. And their 6 sisterships, meanwhile have nuked any alien groundbases up to jupiter to bits.
I just really hope the game doesn't crash on me again, when i soon engage in full scale battles.
Good thing i don't have any lack of mission control, otherwise i would really hate them taking up 9 MC and doing nothing.
The way the aliens adapted to your strategies is amazing ai programming. You only got one or two alien bases before they garrisoned them all.
That is really well done. i nuked the living "sh*t" out of them, know they boost much better point defense on their vessels. and they're bases and stations are almost only defense structures. ground base has 73k of on paper combat power (actually = 0, they lack point defense, so nukes always level them easily), stations got 5k, but actually much more. they have so many plasma weapons, they chew trough 40 nose armor of my dreadnaughts in no time. but they can't afford those on their ships, and stations without mines and ships are basically just a drag on their economy.
So I sit here in a quiet room, finally relieved that my brethren have arrived from earth in yet more Battlecruisers. The imposing shapes flit past my window as we orbit Jupiter at thousands of KM per hour. if you told me that 30 years after I closed EVE for the last time, as "spreadsheet spaceships" as we called it lost my interest, that I, a 4F recruit, would now be sitting here waiting for some sort of command position, would not only be looking at real spacecraft, but ones that are manned past Luna, and armed to the teeth, I'd have laughed at you. That we would need such things, as humans would be too busy fighting each other on earth to arm deeper solar space, has shown just how little we in all our glorious scientific achievements really knew in 2022.
I got lucky, a slightly maniacal man who called himself "Just A Colonel" was on the same space rehab and medical station in LEO, and we got to playing war games and strategizing about ways to take over the earth, and space if we could. One day he walked in with a few more doctors, and a few "suits" and asked me to look at a guerrilla style battle plan that "I just had to chew on for him"., I asked jokingly if i needed my well worn copy of "Ender's Game" and could I get the evening to look at the war game in my bunk. The "suits" froze and one spoke up saying "No one was to leave the room with knowledge of this plan unless It was in a body bag."
I laughed, god I laughed out loud at that man saying those words, but suddenly guns appeared aimed at me! Doctors brought in a "pheremone detector" to make sure I was "OK", and until the all clear was given, the "suits" never wavered in their aim... Suddenly Mr. Castillo raised an arm in a halting motion, and suggested we go back to his room to chat about the plans.
If God has a sense of irony, he used it now, for while the gravity of Earth is what held me back in serving my country the USA at the time, now the ... USNA? to be honest I can't keep track of the name of the governments now, but now that gravity isn't holding me back physically from serving in space, the sheer gravity of the battleplans I am to craft have left me nearly crushed.
Before I left earth i emailed a few friends and guild/corpmates of various MMORPG's, and while many had no response, one did, and when I told Hans (he told me to drop the rank BS) who it was he grinned broadly and said" yeah I know of that Max guy too, he is really good at pawn removal. He wouldn't explain when I asked further why he wouldn't invite him to play games with us as a group.
I finally got the call, It is time to leave my habroom and start working in real time with the battlefleets. May god have mercy on the alien souls, because I have been thoroughly planning out how not only to deliver them to him, but to keep us all alive....
Name withheld: Jovian system battlegroup, Humanity First
First my favorite military analyst. Now my favorite strategy gamer. Good show, you actually use logical tactics and it's glorious!
its almost to easy for him it feels like hahaha
@@SEHC95 I'm drafting house rules for the next run - and obviously we increase the difficulty
@@PerunGamingAU niiiiiiceeee, will you play something other than th directly fighting alien orgs?
Perun too OP, needs to nerf self
@@PerunGamingAU Would a fission only run sound like a fun challenge? maybe it's a bit too RNG dependant but there are engines good enough to carry you through the game
Your fight around Jupiter reminds me of the Americans at the start of the Pacific campaign. Buying time with an understrength force. Building up a steamroller in the meantime.
You can't convince me otherwise that the Sydney didn't wrote: "Sydney vs Xenos" on a deck or in the mess hall
@@jlGenozzV For a HF vessel? It is definitely painted on the side.
The only reason I am doing as well as I am in my Resistance run is because of these videos. Thank you so much, and I really hope someone writes up a dramatic narrative of the Jupiter Campaign. Utterly enthralling!
By now the crews of the Hades and Scourge probably aren't celebrating victories anymore. Destroying Xenos fleets is just another day in the office for them. They know they can't slack off, but they know they're up to the task at hand quite comfortably
Hell, that one time they misidentified a Hydra plasma-ship led to the worst casualties and damage the ship ever suffered was likely a the product of sleep deprivation/exhaustion in-universe, so that likely has had major effects on operations procedures, the Earth fleet reinforcements taking some of the load off them likely has helped alot as well.
BIG W
I swear, the HF are secretly xenos trying to prevent competition, because... Man am I ENTHRALLED by this series!
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It's not just the operational tempo in the Jovian system that's impressive, it's also the release tempo of these videos!
I can only imagine that Hydra vessel crews are kept completely in the dark about the situation
They probably get told they will be greeted as gods on Earth and take it in three days.
@@richardarriaga6271 This sounds somewhat familiar. I don't know why
Watch the hydras start nicking washing machines.
Same with the HF fleets but for a different reason
@@richardarriaga6271 Sounds familiar, but very accurate.
Why do I hear something like a rifle bolt or a pistol slide clacking in the background at 3:06 right when Perun says "My plan is to eliminate the last Hydra operatives instead" ? :D
If it wasn’t, it was a hilarious background noise.
Guess they realized he was on to them?
Max is so good at his job that you can actually hear him irl now.
Just a little as the safety comes off.
Might be his chair but that's a funny background noise
Just a request from a fellow sci-fi lover, next time you design a big brawler class could we get a Donnager-Class or at least a named major vessel. I for one would be excited to see the Donny get another shot as the flagship of the Jupiter fleet. Just a suggestion, loving the series. Great work on both channels!
I think the first Titan might be a good choice for the Donnager.
There’s a second channel?
and let us see the designing process, its fun
@@caspianvonliechtenstein6517 technically THIS is the second channel, @Perun is the main channel, is the best military analysis that you can have without having to be on a Army force
Had Tachi pop up randomly in my HF Frigate name list, would have used it had my ship design not been an early game Earth Defense ship
Silence. Oxymoronic and somewhat disturbing compared to what was happening in the vaccumed ready bay of the drop ship dispatched from an ANZAC class in Vesta orbit. The marines inside were used to the clicks and whirrs of their Coilrifles, used to it from training back on Luna, it was chisled into their minds, so much so that they could just imagine it, and so they did. They imagined the rattling of the tungsten alloy penetrators in their sabots, the metal alloy clanging from the magazine hooking into the catch. Then, as their gloved fingers flicked the power switch, imagined hearing the buzzing whirr of the coils being charged by the liquid battery, it was the sound of twenty five megajoules of energy purposed entirely for xenocide, the "purr" as Colonel Castillo called it.
There was some actual noise, their suits, but it was drowned out, this time by that same training. The sound of their oxygen recyclers working constantly, the climate control buzzing and keeping their bodies cool. Then the electronics whirring and beeping as new information flowed to them from their heads up displays, a pane of transparent golden metal seperating them from the void of space. The exoskeletons on the other hand made no noise, in atmo-warfare, you didn't want them to, but the Marines imagined that they made hydraulic noises and metallic clicks all the same, it helped the nerves. Regardless of those nerves, the comms were still abuzz with whoops and hollers that whatever xenos they met would undoubtedly meet the end of a tungsten slug hitting them at more than a couple kilometers a second.
Then the light went green, and all those noises stopped.
Heavy breathing, pupils dilating, sweating in spite of the climate control, a nervous swallow as they tasted again what they ate not long ago. The sergeant raised three fingers as he held his hand to the side of his helmet, dropped one, dropped two, then all three. The bay door dropped down fast, they were embraced by the white light of the sun which washed away the darkness of the ready bay, as if Sol Invictus themselves were standing infront of them. Then their helmets polarized, darkened, and the cratered barren landscape of Vesta was laid before them, a dark blanket over the entire sky with not a star in sight, and only a few hundred meters away the Hydra base.
Their legs carried them away almost automatically, instinct, get out of the kill zone.
Still complete silence, only rapid breathing. Flashes of green light, plasma, dust kicking up and cascading the rays of the sun. Recoil impulses, tungsten slug after tungsten slug firing, a red tracer following after as sparks exploded off the side of the black exterior of the base. Two life signs in the upper right went red, one after the other, a man or woman returned to ashes, "stop looking at it and shoot!" they imagined Castillo to yell.
Move up, fall into a crater, climb out, grazed by a green ball of glowing excited gas, move and shoot as the Coilrifle pushes them back, a hydra loses their arm and their head, slowly falling to the grey dusty ground as the gravity pulls to their grave. Then the final stretch, ten of them left from the original twelve. Never mind the numbers, as one of them pulls out a compact breaching charge and affixes it to the airlock door they stacked up upon.
For a brief moment sound could be heard again as the oxygen was vented out of the building, a white cloud appearing briefly from the door as if the base were giving it's last exhale. Go in. they couldn't look back or hesitate now, as the Marines filed into the base. Four more life signs went red as rooms were cleared, surprises occured, mistakes made. Green flashes of light met with the sudden impact of a slug to the vital areas they were taught to aim for, three rapid shots at each of it's hearts, and one to the head if that didn't work. Mozambique adopted for Aliens.
The last room, the Sergeant shoots the door open, then the hallway is washed with a blinding green light, and in that literal flash they are torn in half as their still burning ashes flutter in the vaccum along with molten metal. A brick of high explosives is thrown within as a marine clutches onto a detonator.
In the brief flash of explosive light, their eyes are revealed through the polarized transparent metal of the visor.
They're crying.
Damn! 💯
Max wasn’t the boogeyman. He was the one you send to Kill the fucking boogeyman!! 😂
Nice reference!
This releases in the mornings for me, and I haven't been this excited to watch something when I wakeup since Saturday morning cartoons as a kid!
“Space warfare is a bizarre thing really, early sci-fi would have you believe it’s all zooming around in slick spaceships almost dogfighting with enemy vessels. The truth is that it’s more akin to submarine warfare, you wait, you plan, you strike when you think you have the advantage and hope you get them before they get you. I was given command of the hydra around the time HF-Terra arrived to support us. My first command in battle an enemy plasma bolt blew out a section of the hull, 10 dead, I’ll never forget those brave folks, no one else will too, I made sure they’re names were inscribed on the hull, and on a few mag rounds for good measure.” Interview with Rear Admiral Druganov, 2050
Every time i see one of these episodes i jump on it immediately, I'm really really hooked.
Ditto
Awesome continuation of the Jovian theatre.
Cant wait to see if your Auckland design can crack open those single (unescorted) Motherships.
I feel the key going foward is your ability to destroy those mining stations and orbital defense in the asteroid belt. So far they have not invaded earth (yet). Since they are trying their best to secure resources. Their exotic supply is dwindling.
I cant believe they still have the ability to keep building ships with how many ships and exotics you have destroyed and taken.
I actually love how you named your marines carrier super emu, considering the historic past with emus in good old 'straya.
I'm so impressed with your production speed, especially since you cut out a lot of the bits that are less exciting. I feel like I barely have time to watch one video and the next goes up. You must really enjoy this game at the pace you're playing. :)
"Introduce the aliens to the concept of nuclear weapons"
I can't think of much on this series that I would enjoy more than watching an impossibly expensive alien mothership vanish in a nuclear fireball to a few cheap missile boats.
This Alien conga line is like standing in a doorway in Diablo 1.
Or good old Thermopylae
TEMPO TEMPO TEMPO
I'm genuinely impressed by the alien AI. They're not omniscient, but they do make mostly logical decisions responding to your actions. Possibly the best AI since the Unity of Command series.
I'm sure I'm not the only Australian who's hoping you make a "drop bear" class ship at some point soon.
you will not be dissapointed
@@PerunGamingAU Legend. What better way to introduce xenos to our great country than our most deadly totally-not-made-up wildlife?
Probably my favorite lets play in a while. Great content I like the way you try to plan for the long future.
Perun, I think if you can choose different formations at the bottom of the deployment screen. When the Melbourne was well ahead of the other 2 ships, you went into that battle with a 'Cloud' formation. I've seen this in other battles with the same exact ship type, it still has one slightly staggered behind the other.
Other battles you've gone into with 'Line' formation and it had every ship neatly stacked together. Something to consider and play around with. The other 3 settings might help more as well.
Hades and Scourge truly don't want to be outshined by the reinforcements from Battlefleet Terra and HF-01 🤣
Some great space battles in this episode, I'm really looking forward to seeing you take on a mothership with nukes.
And the great purging of the Xenos continues, lets goooooo💪❤
The kind of funny thing I find is that each "unit" of antimatter is probably like 1-3 grams, sounds insignificant but 1-3 grams of antimatter has a more powerful real life energy yield than the most powerful nuclear weapon ever constructed. Easily enough to glass a large city or a medium sized island.
The 'Makemake Express' keeps on rolling, and Operation Space Watchtower keeps on derailing it. :)
I just love that you are from Australia for the simple reason when you upload is usually 9 AM for me so a good breakfast while watching humanity purge the xeno threat is a great way to start the day
I do the exact same thing.
Merely a century after the start of WW2 humanity is kicking alien ass in space with coilguns and phasers like it’s nobody’s buisiness
This series is the greatest story ever told. Keep up the good work Perun!
Can't wait to see your combined mega fleet smite the xenos.
I know it's silly but I am really quite stoked that my home city got your first heavy plasma Battleship named after it.
I’m curious how many supply ships would be needed to keep IO fortress and the Jupiter’s fleet going . So much food, water, ammo, fuel and fress recruits on top of construction materials constantly flowing in. I would guess there’s multiple hundreds of transport ships and supply rockets at this point.
More like supply probes shot with railguns
You gotta wonder what they're planning to do up in Makemake. Consolidating into a deathball? If so, they still have their fuel issues to overcome. Definitively need a patch for fuel resupply, though. Anyway, great showing! Certainly the best terra invicta series there is atm.
I think the ships heading to Makemake dropped the dv constrained motherships. They could create a powerful fleet WITH good delta-v.
16:08 - "We have 80 forward armor on our dreadnoughts/battlecruisers"
...Dear god. What the hell can even destroy that outside of antimatter/nuclear weapons?
Reminds me of the issues the UNSC navy had against Covenant pulse lasers.
I bet it feels really good to have hit a stage of the game you hadn't gotten to before and then fight a campaign in Jupiter that will taught in the xenos' naval academy.
I’m pretty sure when all’s said and done they’re gonna be too extinct to be teaching at naval academies…
Thought for the day: "Purge the unclean."
"This is the voice of the Mysterons... We know you can hear us Earth-men.... We will continue our war of retribution after your attack on our complex."
48:26 Perth got hit by friendly fire. She crossed in front of the other ship just as it was firing its phaser
Love that the Auckland class has the heavy plasma, given the city has 29 volcanos.
The city has what now? Who decided building a city on top of 29 volcanoes was a good idea?
@@PeterJavi Best City in the World my friend, wouldn't live anywhere else.
Wow, you have such a nice community and you actually read the comments and listen to the ideas and mention the fun things people say! I loved watching all the way thru to this point. If I could ask would it be possible to zoom in more on the ships to see the details of shooting or getting shot once the micro of a battle is over? (Like when there is only one ship left) Anyway even if it isn't possible thank you so much for the videos! =)
I'll try and do some closeups
@@PerunGamingAU 😍🥹🙏🏻
I imagine that Max is much happier with the small arms improvements, now that he doesn't have to lug around a ma deuce or barrett.
TF-ANZAC is a brilliant master stroke - you've forced the Xenos to split their forces between 2 competing sectors for a significantly cheaper fleet. That reduces the Jovian reinforcements to a size ripe for interception, buying you more time to build up your fleet. Jupiter is inching closer towards your sphere of influence.
I'm not sure the strategic situation is playing out that way. The marine transports encountered a dreadnaught and had a corvette show up in system. That kind of alien composition would only take a lazy afternoon for one of the Jupiter battlefleets to take care of.
I havea feeling that auto resolve isn't considering PD at all, thus the much higher chance of being damaged.
I for one am excited to learn about these siege vessels.
I think making siege ships is more important than mother ship busters. You can already handle mother ships by screwing with their limited delta V, so they provide no real threat however eliminating bases removes Xenos strategic depth and limits their logistical ability.
You are an absolute GIGACHAD, Perun!!! :D
Greatly enjoying the series and finding it helpful for my own playthroughs!
4:55 "and then a coil round gets them" *ship dies to phasers*
I have a feeling Max will enjoy some of the designer life
Absolutely loving this series.
21:20 reminds me of "Rise of an Empire".
In the book they had found similar issues when it came to fighting. Albeit they had changing moments in what was effective.
For example missiles were kind of bad until they developed the Skim Drives which allowed stuff to go into hyperspace even inside of solar systems. Then missiles were suddenly the MVP as the skimmed in ftl really close to the enemy ships and would only then be capable of being shot out of the sky. This worsened by the fact that the skims made massive EMP waves.
Lasers were incredible until the Shimmer Armor was invented whereas the heat would be spread through the entire ships hulls and most of the laser being reflected.
The skim missiles fell off when tech came into play that allowed to destroy missiles within the subspace. Railguns kept being genereally useful. Usually by just shooting hundreds of thousands of rounds to get a couple hits in.
I guess the motherships will meet the space Jeune École doctrine.
Regarding antimatter for free in Jupiter/Saturn: The base antimatter unit is metric tons. The antimatter in orbits from cosmic rays you can grab with antimatter farms is a different unit - *micrograms* per year. There is a 12 orders of magnitude difference in units and the only notation is buried in a tooltip. It's a stupid trap.
12 orders of magnitude make it absolutely incomparable. 14 bases would produce as much antimatter in one year as would one farm produce since the beginning of the universe. 😀
Great series, keep refreshing for new episodes 5 times a day 🙂
Its seems increasingly that Hans Castille might be the Emperor of Mankind.
Fighting religious lunatics, Check.
Uniting Earth, Check.
Technological meritocratic approach to governance, Check.
Masterful tactician, and strategist, Check.
Destroying Aliens with seeming ease, Check.
And he still look as young as ever.
Big e: My son fov max
I hope that either you have regular saves or the game has a civ-style time series analysis of the game. I really want to see the ramp up in production, xenos activity, and even things (indirectly) as mundane as the operation of the mass drivers moving resources throughout the solar system.
I think the idea should be to identify whether their bottleneck to ship production is materials or space docks and then try to kill as many as possible of what is holding them back the most
the Melbourne is a badass just sits out front killin everything
Thank you for the daily long video uploads, I look forward to them every day when they come out
I like the aliens having all that sunk cost into motherships I saiy keep it that way. you’ll be able to pick the time dand the place for the first fleet battle/mothership engagement there’s no rush you can’t sustain repeated fleet battle yet. Knocking out those inner system bases of theirs I think is the best focus. They lose strategic positioning and waste delta flying in from makemake with lots of advanced warning. Nice run so far!
I kind of accidently killed a mothership in an earlier run. I got a massive retaliation from the aliens before being remotely ready for it. I had a fleet of 10 L1 escorts with some PD and missiles plus a L2 station with two L2 defense plattforms attached. All of them died, but they put enough missiles into the vacuum to take down the mothership before it reached firing range on the station. It was charging ahead of her fleet for some reason and demolished like half of my ships. The alien fleet then took care of the rest of my ships and the station and actually lost one of their other ships by crashing into the wreckage of one of my ships. The entire battle was rather odd.
I love these campaigns❤ Keep up the great work!
A very exciting episode, again! The fight of the Jupiter squadron was simply glorious and I am very much looking forward what the Earth forces are going to develop next, ship-wise. I can't wait to see the first titan ships, when the turns will have tabled...! Godspeed to the forces of Earth and Humanity First! 👍
Highly enjoyable episode. Love how even with your fleets putting down wave after wave of xeno ships their industrial output is such that they're still at pretty much unchanged total fleet strength. Their industrial base in the inner solar system has to go.
@PerunGamingAU Until a patch goes through to increase antimatter farm rate around Jupiter, don't even bother with the farm. A maxed out collection station (4 defense modules) collects fento-units per month.
This is some absolutely incredible stuff!
Love the space combat piece of this game.
Love your play though, It's like watching a movie. Well done.
We're gonna go head on, APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!!
This is a great series. I hope your crews can keep up the tempo..
19:09 No matter what they are classed change it to one of the wall type formations instead of cloud Tight then Heavies Center see if that fixes your formation issues. It just just create a mutually supporting wall of 2 high ships I ussually use it with 3 ships as all ships can support each other 3 high ships I use this on fleets of 9 or 5 high ship stacks anything above that.
I would try it In the skirmish battle and mess around with it just load your save file of your game.
So the aliens are beginning to adapt to your ships, and you adapt to theirs....an arms race in action!
Also they DO have you massively out gunned on paper, but a lot of that combat power is unable to be brought to bear. How much of it is in those motherships and fleets that are outbound that can't return for another year? Force and firepower is only useful if it can be successfully brought into action, which is where you're gaining the upper hand(almost all of your fleet firepower is engaged, or easily brought into action). It's interesting that they're stringing in ships like they are, instead of forming up and moving units together.
With the advent of the alien plasma cannon the next-gen of warships might need some more of that dreaded side armor. IIRC the plasma cannon hull mounts do around 9.5 damage, so 10 side armor would make you shrug off the first few shots before armor chipping comes into play, but your going to face away the side anyways so chipping isn't probably a massive consideration there.
The reason why I think that you should make a fleet capable of cracking station is so that you can strand the mothership death fleets with no fuel resupply.
You're definitely going to need a ship class that can crack stations in the next couple years. Although, hopefully, you hitting their mining stations will also start constricting their ability to pump out ships (or at least continue to restrict them to pumping out a lot of trash).
The Mothership is a funny vessel. I've managed to destroy it early on on my very first run with 4 basic Monitors. I've player way too agressive, and atracted xeno wrath. At that point their by far most powerful taskforce was a Mothership itself. I've said my praiers to my poor fleet, only for it to come out on top.
What happened was, the Mothership chaised my tiny fleet at full speed, regarding them as no threat. It ended up flying straight into a full missile salvo (with little time for its PD to work), and exploded. It had managed to snipe 2 of my Monitors, but only after they already relseasd most of their volleys.
All 4 Monitors had Riverjack missiles (the smallest but most numerous early missiles), with no point defence. I've figured early designs won't survive anyway, so might as well give them as much of a punch as possibile. The reason I went with those particular missiles, was to overwhelm xeno PD with numbers of missiles.
I don't remember how little resources I've spent, but the Mothership was no more.
To fix the ship type/category from "transport" - design an upgrade version with insignificant change (add/remove a single fuel tank or point of armor), change the ship type along the way, and refit the existing ships (should be a fast refit with such a small change)
That death congo towards jupiter lol. I wonder what the alien conscripts feel as each and every interception hits the person in front of them.
Thanks for teaching me how to play this game
I think the problem with missiles vs PD lategame is the way that missiles aren't 'smart'. The way you would try to saturate PD like this would be to dump missiles overboard with low throttle increasing as you fire, calculated to form a coordinated time on target salvo along with the rest of your fleet's missiles. A couple of magazines and trying to stay long range to give more time to deploy missile salvoes could result in just a few ships slamming 100+ missiles on the target as a single barrage.
Maybe those assault carriers were built to go to earth. But the Jovian campaign has been such a disaster for the aliens that all ships have been diverted there.
that's almost certainly what happened in the AIs mind
Praise the lord I am finally caught up.
Make a big axs titan to show humanity first supremacy in SPACE
You have a habit of missing maneuver nodes, leaving gaps in your acceleration and allowing the aliens to control more than their fair share of the manuever game. You'll notice the path lines that remain green following unused manuever nodes such as at 13:18
We need more than one vid a day!!, I'm having withdrawals.
You could just get the game yourself if you're craving more Invicta.