suffer not the xeno to live

what crisis did you get?

contingency

I'm playin a new empire now though, I'll resume that save later

only like 2 years into this one lol

@nic have you ever played as xenophile?

yeah, a few times

this run is a xenophile run

xenophile militarists?

I'm Xenophile Spiritualist Egalitarian for this run

sounds extra gay

if you were pacisfist, that's how it could even more gay

ok I have to share this

this was just insane

@Deleted User this run got intense very quickly

copy pasting what I sent to mate a few minutes ago

I just fought the single most intense battle I have ever fought and probably will ever fight in Stellaris
so the Stellarite Devourer was near me from the start of the game, about 8ish jumps away from my capital
no biggie, aside from the FIghter and Bomber Corps and a few stray construction and science ships commiting suicide every now and again
so I'm talking to the curators, even though I'm in a war, I haven't had a fight yet because we're on opposite sides of the galaxy, I've been building up my fleet and I'm sitting at about 700 fleet size (about 200 ships I want to say?) with 60k-ish in fleet strength, and the curators go "yeah you can probably bust her up a bit righto mate" and I think to myself, jeez, can't go that badly, let's get me admiral some experience
so I jump my fleet in, and we're doing damage get about 1/6th of it's health down before I decide the fleet isn't going to last much longer, so I pull it out
fleet limps back to one of my colonies, one jump away from my capital. I tell it to get back to the capital, because that's where I was churning out PD destroyers at the time and it'd be easier to merge the fleet there.
and thank god I told it to get back to the capital
because little did I know
the Stellarite Devourer can get angry
and leave the system it spawned in
and lucky me, 5 days after jumping my fleet back into my home system, gets this message
"a Hostile Stellarite Devourer Fleet is heading towards the Lagragaan System!"

so
I'm *fucked*
and I mean fucked
my fleet when it was 60k-ish did 1/6th of it's health, and that fleet is now crippled and with 38k power (and only 94 ships)
so
the fight is on
the survival of my empire is on the line
my admiral (who is now a 4 star admiral after the previous engagement) is apparently bloodlusted and wants revenge too, so as soon as the Stellarite Devourer pops into the system he's already on a war path
and then it happens
my saviour
the AI empire I was at war with, jumps into my home system, behind the Stellarite Devourer
their fleet is only 15k, but it's in close quarters, and is made up almost entirely out of destroyers and corvettes, so the humbers game is on their side
so my fleet now has a chance. we're no longer being picked at by long distance as much, we can get into the engagement zone and turn all our strike craft and turbolasers on that thing
and then I had a brainwave
I remembered that I had been commisioning several Venator class Star Destroyers from other planets, who didn't have a fleet to rally to when my fleet was MIA
so I pause the game, and tell 8 Venators to haul ass to the Lagragaan System
I also had a small fleet of Assault Frigate MKI Dreadnoughts (Dreadnought Cruisers that were retrofitted with Nebulon-B parts, they look freakin amazing, better than the Assault Frigate MKII) that were waiting for orders, so I told 14 Assault Dreadnoughts to get over there ASAP
factoring those in, I had another 10k-ish to play with, mostly from the 8 Venators

it's still looking bad
the Stellarite Devourer has lost about 1/5th health when the fucking Lokken Mechanists (empire that a friend created, was fortunate enough to find in this single player game) jump in with a 20k fleet, and they're not even in the war with me, they just have sensor data. which means that they saw this thing about to ravage my home system and thought "can't be having that, they've got better tech than I do, and they give me research grants" and got their fleet over there to help
at this point the battle has been waging for 2 months
during that time, a fresh wave of Venators had rolled off the line at my 12 spaceports, and I'm dead broke
they slowly trickle into the system and either engage the Stellarite Devourer head on because it's where they jumped in from, or join the main fleet and bombard from a relatively safe distance
after the most nerve racking 3 months I've ever had in Stellaris, the thing finally dies
and now, the remnants of the Robot Empire's fleet engages what's left of mine
because having a break is for chumps
I come out on top, barely, thanks to my spaceport chipping in when they got into range (my fleet was still near the centre of the system, the Stellarite Devourer was about halfway to it when it died)
it took me over half an hour to fight that engagement

I've never been so terrified in my life lmao

and to add onto that, it was only the year 2238

Jesus fuck @nic

Sounds extremely clutch

It was
I was sweatin man

I didn't know the devourer could actually come after you, but I never really engaged it that early

I didn't know either, lucky me

But yeah, I was fucked if I didn't luck out by two empires interfering with the battle

it's like in EU4, where you can lure in your allies to clear up your rebels, if you give them military access

have them waste their manpower

instead of your own

Kind of, but not really, because unfortunately the Stellaris AI isn't as interactive as I'd like it to be.
I was just really lucky that the Lokken had sensor data and chose to act

I think the next time I load up my game in going to send them a hefty sum of energy credits and minerals for their trouble

@nic what mod were you playing with?

To get venators

I was using the Rebel Alliance ship pack for this one

I normally use the Imperial ship pack, but changed it up for this run

And I still got Venators <3

I love that ship, and apparently I cannot get away from it

Just
So goddamn sexy

Get you a girl like this tbh

Venator is best ship

I see you are a man of culture as well

Battlecarrier is best ship type

Indeed

@nic is there a republic ship pack?

So anyways
Am down for multiplayer of... something.. if anyone is interested (and we have the same game)

I have Squad, but haven't tried it

Interstellar Marines isn't too bad, but pretty much dead. PvE multi is still fun though

Still haven't played 7 Days to Die since the newest major update dropped several months ago

oh yeah, Space Hulk Deathwing. Would still like to try that out in a squad

@Deleted User not that I'm aware of unfortunately

The Empire ship pack has many republic ships however

Such as the Venator and the Arquitens

And the Acclamator

cool

too bad I'm going to wait a long while before playing stellaris 2.0

cuz I need my mods

lul, won a game of throne of lies as cult leader, and only got off 1 convert. Luckily he was a god at the game, and convinced the goody-goodies to hang eachother.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/310380/Fractured_Space/

Gonna give it a bash, feel free to join me. It's free, so let's see how we go

@Deleted User re: shooting at ground targets - are you using convergence on your guns?

Isn’t that the distance at which the bullets come to one point?

that is indeed correct

one could even say that the bullets..

..

..converge.

@Reaps holy shit thanks reaps, it was convergence that was the problem

heh.

what were you flying?

p-36s and I couldn't hit ground targets for shit

I usually use dedicated ground attack aircraft, which means I can set the convergence to zero (no convergence) because the armament is centreline instead of wing-mounted

yeah, P-36 is something like 4 .50s or .30s in the wings or something

maybe two on the nose

@Jek Porkins Deathwing sometime?

yeh yeh

@Reaps

@Reaps how is space?

hm, now that Tomb Kings DLC is released, I no longer have any excuse no to get Total War: Warhammer 2

Arkhan the Black ❤

I’m still gonna wait till the next sale, but I’ll definitely get it.

Yeah, it's still a bit expensive for my taste

Tomb Kings are my favorite faction, though I also like the Vampire Counts from the first game. I'd like to have the Mortal Empires campaign also.

I also wanna make sure I can get Three Kingdoms

the new one set in China? Yeah, me too

not too bad; just missing server population

the hero system from the warhammer games have been something I've always wanted more of, in Total War

though probably not to the epic extent of the powered up warhammer legendary lords

M2 is best TW

it's great yeah

RTW boi

I've probably played Shogun 1+2 more, though

even "wasted" money getting the collector's edition of #2

@meratrix wrong

RTW is best TW

medieval 1 because of the danes being playable, too

M2 da best

I like features that M2 added, but I still prefer the units and factions from RTW, which for me is more important.

Can you stab the muzzie in Rome?
That’s what I thought

can you even kill the christians?

been too long since I played, but I suppose most of it is in the republic era