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[Jacob/Lee]

I'm just ignoring the war going on now. I placed a survey ship at the jump point and having it sit there for a while, if anything comes through it'll see it. If not, it'll get shot at.

[adwarf]

Well I just finished building two ~50,000 ton Destroyers to act as a quick defense for Earth until I get some PDCs, and actual defense capable ships. Well it turns out I totally failed I forgot to put engines on the damned things, so they are now just chunks of Duranium with 30 Dual 15cm Laser Turrets and 6 20 CM Railguns floating around Earth

[Bremen]

Well I just finished building two ~50,000 ton Destroyers to act as a quick defense for Earth until I get some PDCs, and actual defense capable ships. Well it turns out I totally failed I forgot to put engines on the damned things, so they are now just chunks of Duranium with 30 Dual 15cm Laser Turrets and 6 20 CM Railguns floating around Earth

Orbital defense bases!

Started a new game today, and already thinking about another Aurora LP. Undecided if I want to do a narrative style LP, or maybe a hybrid LP/tutorial since everyone complains about the lack of an up to date one.


Edit: Does a railgun on a defense platform have a tracking speed of 0?

[Tarran]

I really, really hope not. They're right next door to sol *shudder*

Hey, another one dropped dead. 800 ton "Rakshasa" class vessels.

That portrait is really effin creepy.

From personal experience, I'm pretty sure that the Starswarm always have that portrait. So the chances of it being starswarm is very very high.

[Raddish]

In my current game I fully expect to run out of minerals in the "not distant enough for my liking" future.  It's not as easy as it looks starting with no research but I will persevere until either we get obliterated or lack of resources strands us in space.

[Jacob/Lee]

I have realized I have no idea how to reload my missiles. Can anyone enlighten me?

[Tarran]

Two ways:

Quickest: Make sure you assigned the ordnance you want that class to typically have, then give the Task Group an order to reload on the planet with missiles. I'm not sure if this works with anything but planets.

Most specific: Open up the Ship/Individual Unit Details window, select the ship, and pick Ordnance Management, where everything should be pretty easy to understand.

[Jacob/Lee]

Welp, I went to that system again, 2 ships armed with 500 size 6 ASMs each. Located a 60,000 ton thing named the Sparrowhawk by the intel officers all the way across the system and started to fly towards it. Suddenly, those tiny bastards come out of nowhere and eat my ships.

Time to face... The Swarm.

[Girlinhat]

If you can figure out the swarm they're easier to fight.  Know thy enemy.  I believe that missiles tend to work rather well for swarms.

[Flying Dice]

I really, really hope not. They're right next door to sol *shudder*

Hey, another one dropped dead. 800 ton "Rakshasa" class vessels.

That portrait is really effin creepy.

From personal experience, I'm pretty sure that the Starswarm always have that portrait. So the chances of it being starswarm is very very high.

Nope. My current game has Precursors with that portrait, along with a 3rd Reich flag.

Yeah... Luckily, I've never faced many ships so I just micromanage the combat.

Some random aliens jumped my geosurvey vessel with many ships with thermal sigs of 160, all of them using kinetic/energy weapons. That's not it, though, for a single increment, I saw one of their wrecks appear in a system I have no presence in, then disappear the next... Also, the wreck of my geosurvey ship is gone...

Space Swarm Maybe ? Or highly advanced NPR?

Vanishing wrecks sounds like Swarm to me.

If you can figure out the swarm they're easier to fight.  Know thy enemy.  I believe that missiles tend to work rather well for swarms.

That, or just making ships that are faster than theirs with lasers/particle beams/railguns/gauss cannons and staying out of meson range. Missile spam is usually best for the Hives, but only if you can put together a heavy enough barrage to wear down the shields.

[Jacob/Lee]

Eh... I'm just going to post some guards at the point and never step foot in that hellhole ever again. I'm going to wait for the other spoiler enemy or some stupid NPR to come along and weaken them a bit.

And yeah, it's the Swarm. Swarms of 800 ton ships armed with some "energy/kinetic" weapon and a single 60,000 ton ship far out.

[Flying Dice]

Eh... I'm just going to post some guards at the point and never step foot in that hellhole ever again. I'm going to wait for the other spoiler enemy or some stupid NPR to come along and weaken them a bit.

And yeah, it's the Swarm. Swarms of 800 ton ships armed with some "energy/kinetic" weapon and a single 60,000 ton ship far out.

What, you don't want to fight off a relentless alien menace that will soon invade your home system and which offers no benefit for destroying them apart from your own survival?

(Seriously, no wrecks to steal from. Can't salvage bits of frozen ichor, after all...)

[Tarran]

Nope. My current game has Precursors with that portrait, along with a 3rd Reich flag.

I did not say that only the Starswarm could have that portrait. I said that they always have it. So my point still stands.

[Jacob/Lee]

Thanks to that picture, now I'm going to imagine all Swarm creatures as giant floating ticks/fleas in space.

[SirAaronIII]

That's kind of what they are, though. Except with more spaceship involved.