Waging war in SE5

[aegisx]

Is it just me, or does waging a war in a foreign system now require a good amount of planning? (Thats a good thing to me). I have been fighting with a neutral and finding I really do need to bring a hefty fleet with support ships.

[RonGianti]

I'm thinking the same thing... It also appears that even a decisive, but quick war doesn't bring them to their knees. There seems to be a default amount of resource storage, so the enemy can sustain a war long after their core worlds have been conquered.

But I like having to plan this level of detail myself...

[President_Elect_Shang]

I don't know about that. I'm thinking this is related to the ordinance bug.

[Fyron]

SE4 had a default amount of resource storage too; 50k of each.

There are still some supply usage bugs for fleets. One was fixed, another not (IIRC), so that might play a role.

[President_Elect_Shang]

Imperator Fyron said:
SE4 had a default amount of resource storage too; 50k of each.

Good point, I can't see why Aaron would have removed this for SE5. More likely what is going on than the ord bug.

[aegisx]

Gone are the days of sending in a few ships for an extended campaign.

[tmcc]

I don't know. I have been quite successful against nuetrals with small attack fleets. I send in a couple of missile frigates a colony ship loaded with a cargo of missile based WPs, ordnance and supplies. I glass their weakest colonizable world, colonize it and then emergency build a resupply depot, a space yard and then troops while sending a troop transport from home. The rest is history. This strategy also worked to take out the Xiata's home system.

I believe that this works mainly because it exploits the stock game's point defense weakness. Have not tried with the Balance Mod yet.

I believe that this works mainly because it exploits the stock game's point defense weakness. Have not tried with the Balance Mod yet.

[aegisx]

Kwok is working on giving the AI PD capabilities in the balanced mod.

Rushing and building a resupply depot is a good idea. I have been fighting them without one in the system.

[Q]

tmcc said:
I don't know. I have been quite successful against nuetrals with small attack fleets. I send in a couple of missile frigates a colony ship loaded with a cargo of missile based WPs, ordnance and supplies. I glass their weakest colonizable world, colonize it and then emergency build a resupply depot, a space yard and then troops while sending a troop transport from home. The rest is history. This strategy also worked to take out the Xiata's home system.

I believe that this works mainly because it exploits the stock game's point defense weakness. Have not tried with the Balance Mod yet.

I believe that this works mainly because it exploits the stock game's point defense weakness. Have not tried with the Balance Mod yet.

It is even easier if you use a small troop transport and conquer their colonies instead of glassing them. In the demo version I conquered both the entire Xiati and Abbidon empire like that.

[Barnacle Bill]

tmcc said:
I believe that this works mainly because it exploits the stock game's point defense weakness.

What weakness is that?