Holy f***ing God. I recently started playing this game again and I was going pretty well as the Hivers. My empire was expanding quite well and my technology was pretty good.
Suddenly, I got the message that an unknown fleet was detected. I couldn't see its trajectory but it seemed to be moving towards a Size 3 planet of mine. It looked like a spiky ball.
I decided to send a Dreadnought or 2 plus half of my old conqueror cruiser fleet (about 30 cruisers) to that planet to welcome the big ball
of impending doom.
After a few turns, it had finally arrived and I was really curious what this big ball
of impending doom was capable of. Lets just say it was a LOT more capable then I could ever have guessed.
A couple of my cruisers were specifically designed to destroy drones with Point Defense and when I say that this big ball of doom was called 'The Locust', I smiled at the thought of slaughtering those bugs....Boy was I wrong.
Literally HUNDREDS of little triangle shaped drones came within sensor reach and had overrun my first line of defense within 20 seconds and one minute later, my satellites had been wrecked as well. Another 30 seconds and my planet was devoid of life. This was when I saw the FleetHome on my screen, the big ball
of impending doom. I figured I should focus all my fire on it but I hardly seemed to scratch it.
Needless to say, I lost that battle. All my ships, satellites and all my inhabitants were gone in 1 turn.
I let my 20 or so planets start working on Dreadnoughts equipped with lasers (to deal with the drones) and missiles (to fire at the FleetHome) so that I could brace myself for another attack. Heh.
After 2 turns: 'An unknown fleet has been detected!'. Big ball of doom heading towards a size 6 planet. I immediately build a constructor so that I could build a Command Station. One turn later: 'An unknown fleet has been detected!'. WHAT!? A second ball of doom was heading towards another planet of mine.
I decided to let that planet fend of for itself while all my forces were going to reinforce the other. When The Locust had finally arrived, I had about 10 Dreadnoughts, 20 cruisers and 20 destroyers. The planet had LD and MD sats and a Command Station.
...FOR NZIJAL!
2 turns later and both my planets were lost. My whole fleet destroyed while that...ball didn't even get a scratch.
I abandoned that game after that turn. Oh how I long for revenge against that thing