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[Sergius]

I killed in an autocalc battle using my entire fleet of about 75 fairly advanced ships and an asteroid monitor.

I killed an alien derelict with a tanker destroyer in an autocalc battle. The tanker was a version 1.0 (the design you start with before you research anything)...

[Ssiissuu]

Tankers are great fun to use as bombs in manual controlled battles, if you can get them close enough to enemy ships without having their load go off. In one game I actually relied pretty heavily on suicide tankers and mines as Hivers to buy myself time to tech up ballistics, it was a close thing but just the delaying measure I needed, my bugs soon ruled the universe. Drat it. Now I think I'm going to reinstall SotS, curse you, thread.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

I can't remember exactly but I'm pretty sure I got a huge moral boost to my population and maybe a relationship boost with the other factions.

[mattie2009]

My strategy is as follows for any freeform map:

Tech up to max lasers
Tech up to Dreadnoughts
Get shit wrecked by Von Neumann (Like fucking clockwork.) (If it's not VN, it's some other form of SotS HFS.)
Get insanely paranoid and build a military force to end all military forces
Get attacked by alien race
Epic win follows
Get truce made to me because I'm fucking awesome
Deny
Expand like crazy
Locate alien homeworld
Fuck shit up with my dreadnoughts.

Repeat the last 7 steps until EVERYONE ELSE IS DEAD.

A dreadnaught only armed with X-rays destroying entire empires, wow....I got to try that 

Hidden step between steps 4 and 5: Ultimate Tech Boom.
Usually involving Emitter tech, awesomelaser tech (By awesomelaser I mean the massive Spinal Mount lasers, and by Spinal Mount lasers I mean the mid-late game "Fuck your shit, you're dead." techs.) and the epic of epics, The dreadnought + HCL tech human-only combo commonly known the SWORD OF THE STARS (insert TVTropes Link here), or as I like to call it the "Middle Finger Of Win".


Also, I hate hivers because their ships are SO FUCKING SLOW without gates.
Also also, The random-tech tree system can go eat a dick. Whenever I want them, those helpful little techs like Mass Drivers, Graviton Beams or cloaking seem to be mysteriously absent from the tech tree.

[Zai]

Also, I hate hivers because their ships are SO FUCKING SLOW without gates.

Once you upgrade your engines to Antimatter and your drive to Farcaster, it's not too bad. Before then, there's Extended Range ships and RamScoops

Also also, The random-tech tree system can go eat a dick. Whenever I want them, those helpful little techs like Mass Drivers, Graviton Beams or cloaking seem to be mysteriously absent from the tech tree.

You can always set all techs that were above 0 to 100 in the master tech tree list, or at least the ones you want. Somebody even did that and uploaded the file onto the Kerberos forums, so you can be lazy about it, too. But then your opponents will have those techs as well. =X

[EDIT:] Forgot to respond to the first part of the quote I split up. =X

[Orb]

Also also, The random-tech tree system can go eat a dick. Whenever I want them, those helpful little techs like Mass Drivers, Graviton Beams or cloaking seem to be mysteriously absent from the tech tree.

Plus, the random tech tree is meant to mix things up, so that one player cant have just one strategy that owns every time. You have to adaptive and flexible. Adds a challenge. But eh, if you hate it mattie, just do what Zai did.

[Zai]

Also also, The random-tech tree system can go eat a dick. Whenever I want them, those helpful little techs like Mass Drivers, Graviton Beams or cloaking seem to be mysteriously absent from the tech tree.

Plus, the random tech tree is meant to mix things up, so that one player cant have just one strategy that owns every time. You have to adaptive and flexible. Adds a challenge. But eh, if you hate it mattie, just do what Zai did said to do.

I've never done it myself, though I have toyed with some of the numbers when I really want to have a specific tech.

[mattie2009]

Spoiler: VN Fun (click to show/hide)

I sent my entire Navy (including two of the massive planet busting mass driver dreadnoughts) to fight off the VN construct and I still lost.  Well not so much lost as ran out of time.  I still had ships fighting.  But I ran out of time and it all became moot.

I think you can change the combat length in-game.
Must check that at some point.

[forsaken1111]

Spoiler: VN Fun (click to show/hide)

I sent my entire Navy (including two of the massive planet busting mass driver dreadnoughts) to fight off the VN construct and I still lost.  Well not so much lost as ran out of time.  I still had ships fighting.  But I ran out of time and it all became moot.

I think you can change the combat length in-game.
Must check that at some point.

You can change the combat length.

Be warned that this has some balance effects. Hivers rely on the combat timer when invading, to keep the gate ships alive. Setting it longer can make hiver attacks very difficult.

[Greiger]

I like the default combat time, seems just right.  And I suppose I could have changed it for that.

But I (A) did not know what it was until I tried to fight it (if I known I would of just abandoned the planet) and (B) At the time I believe there was a bug related to that particular breed of fun and non standard combat time when I fought it.

[Orb]

I like the default combat time, seems just right.  And I suppose I could have changed it for that.

But I (A) did not know what it was until I tried to fight it (if I known I would of just abandoned the planet) and (B) At the time I believe there was a bug related to that particular breed of fun and non standard combat time when I fought it.

The tutorial videos actually say that the combat all revolves around that combat time. So yah, changing thats going to mix things up a lot. 

[BuriBuriZaemon]

I just read some SotS fictional short stories available online and they're quite interesting. The official fiction is intriguing but you only get to read the first few chapters and you have to buy the Complete Edition (with all expansions) to get the reast.

Fanfics collection:

http://sots.rorschach.net/Category:Fan_Fiction

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

Hey has anyone seen this?

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-debut-sword-of-the/701531

Woose thinks the graphics are, and I quote:  "fugly, like, really bad".

He must be punished for his insolence!

[forsaken1111]

What is a Woose and why should I care what he thinks?

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

Woose is a member of this forum.  Or at least he was.