A Federation got ROLF stomped

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Playing an interesting game.

I am the largest empire but not the most powerful due to my lower tech level. I have about 55 planets and 25k fleet 80 years in, using a bunch of mods so my fleet power is halved. Anyway my largest threat was a powerful Federation to my south with the largest member having a superior fleet to me, let alone his smaller buddy with superior tech. Oh I play on insane, aggressive AI with 7 FE on 1200 stars.

I got a war announcement, it seems the near by Guardian FE declared war on the Federation, a closer look and this Federation seemed to have colonized a planet they should not have. This Fallen empire due to the mods has fleets of 600k. So the poor Federation had little chance and lost all its fleets and lost in the end, giving up a bunch of planets. Nice to see by biggest threat smashed, I was not interested in declaring war on him at that point as I had plenty of space to take from other AI's and my own plans. However a succession of AI's surrounding this Federation did not seem ot share my good will and a series of Wars were declared.

I was excited, talk about kicking a man when he is down. Now the Federation was at war with two AI's on either sided and they had very little fleets to stop them. So I decided I'm not going to let the AI get all the spoils here and promptly dispatched my fleet and armies to the border, declared war and grabed a quick 4 planets including one capital world off the smaller of the Federation partners. My war finished with minimal losses and a nice chunk of space gained which was kind of poking into my empire, it now looks much nicer like an empire should.

The other two AI's are still at war but on the way to large victories.

So in short the largest Federation in the game at the time and my largest threats got ROLF stomped by a FE due to colonizing one planet to many, (Holy world) and then got ROLF stomped by the rest of the galaxy looking for a pound of flesh. The AI was utterly ruthless, poor souls.

Well at least now I at 64 planets due to this and integrating a former vassal and about to declare war on the remainder of another AI I took a chunk out of 10 years ago to finish them off. I should hit 100 planets by year 100 hopefully which is my goal. I need the industrial and economic power so I can fight these FE empires once they wake up, they are very much buffed in these mods and start with 600k fleets let alone what they build when they awaken. I think I need to go change my underwear just thinking about it.
 
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Sure did. They went from being one of the biggest powers and largest threats to my empire to and all you can eat free for all. All because they colonized the wrong worlds and did not bow to the FE empire demands.

cool story bro.
 
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on a side note, I love how hectic the Galaxy can get some times. I just enjoy it in games when unexpected things can happen so easily.
 
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on a side note, I love how hectic the Galaxy can get some times. I just enjoy it in games when unexpected things can happen so easily.
Well things just go even better. Never seen this happen and I have about 700 hours in this game now.

I am using a few mods and managed to work my way through a few empires and bring the eternity gate into my borders so that in the future I can defeat the defenders and see what the ring world reveals, it has a Leviathan FE Titan defending it and a fleet of 500k+ FE Fleet defending it. I am using the ship mod that halves fleet power in vanilla the FE fleet is over 1 million. I did send a 70k fleet in to test it out and go toasted in mere seconds, reload.

Anyway 110 years in and one FE awakens and after a war against one AI they ask me to submit to them which I do. Even though I am the strongest empire I am no match for the Awakened Empire as it has 750k fleet and this is only a few years after waking up, it started with over 600k. I lose 25% science and that's about it, I can live with that for now.

The plus side of this new big bad buddy I had is he dispatched one 200k fleet and sent it to the eternity gate, epic battle. The AE took 200k of the defending fleets and he lost most of his 200k fleet, equal trade. So I am watching and waiting for when he sends his main fleet that way again and I will back him up from long range and take the spoils or warp in from another direction when the battle is nearly won so I can claim some spoils and let them wipe each other out. As the eternity gate is in my borders I think the AE feels he needs to deal with this threat, he already took out the wraith Leviathan which happened to venture to close to the AE borders and got toasted.

My fleet power is about 170k now, if this was a vanilla game my fleet power would be over 300k. I took down the Fortress and got all the nice tech from it, I have the shields and power unlocked, mega cannon, artillery II. No lances yet. My battleships have over 5000 shields. My economy is great for 115 years in, 1.2k energy and 1.3k minerals per month, about 82 planets. I am pumping out battleships at present building my fleet power, have about 65 battle ships, 20 battlecrusiers, 20 strike cruisers, 50 cruisers, 50 destroyers, 40 frigates and 200 corvettes.

If the AW empire suffers more losses and gets his fleet down to 300k I might declare war on him and work him over. Only issue another empire just awoken, a rival so the War in Heaven cant be far off now. Might be best to just spam ships and deal with all the minor AI's around me who side with the other AE, win the war in heaven and then try and throw off my over lords and become master of the universe. Oh and then deal with the crisis which is massively buffed In these mods so looking forward to that and all the other goodies hiding in the galaxy.
 
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Well things just go even better. Never seen this happen and I have about 700 hours in this game now.

I am using a few mods and managed to work my way through a few empires and bring the eternity gate into my borders so that in the future I can defeat the defenders and see what the ring world reveals, it has a Leviathan FE Titan defending it and a fleet of 500k+ FE Fleet defending it. I am using the ship mod that halves fleet power in vanilla the FE fleet is over 1 million. I did send a 70k fleet in to test it out and go toasted in mere seconds, reload.

Anyway 110 years in and one FE awakens and after a war against one AI they ask me to submit to them which I do. Even though I am the strongest empire I am no match for the Awakened Empire as it has 750k fleet and this is only a few years after waking up, it started with over 600k. I lose 25% science and that's about it, I can live with that for now.

The plus side of this new big bad buddy I had is he dispatched one 200k fleet and sent it to the eternity gate, epic battle. The AE took 200k of the defending fleets and he lost most of his 200k fleet, equal trade. So I am watching and waiting for when he sends his main fleet that way again and I will back him up from long range and take the spoils or warp in from another direction when the battle is nearly won so I can claim some spoils and let them wipe each other out. As the eternity gate is in my borders I think the AE feels he needs to deal with this threat, he already took out the wraith Leviathan which happened to venture to close to the AE borders and got toasted.

My fleet power is about 170k now, if this was a vanilla game my fleet power would be over 300k. I took down the Fortress and got all the nice tech from it, I have the shields and power unlocked, mega cannon, artillery II. No lances yet. My battleships have over 5000 shields. My economy is great for 115 years in, 1.2k energy and 1.3k minerals per month, about 82 planets. I am pumping out battleships at present building my fleet power, have about 65 battle ships, 20 battlecrusiers, 20 strike cruisers, 50 cruisers, 50 destroyers, 40 frigates and 200 corvettes.

If the AW empire suffers more losses and gets his fleet down to 300k I might declare war on him and work him over. Only issue another empire just awoken, a rival so the War in Heaven cant be far off now. Might be best to just spam ships and deal with all the minor AI's around me who side with the other AE, win the war in heaven and then try and throw off my over lords and become master of the universe. Oh and then deal with the crisis which is massively buffed In these mods so looking forward to that and all the other goodies hiding in the galaxy.

What an interesting game :) Which mods are you using?
 

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What an interesting game :) Which mods are you using?

War in heaven just started so the Eternity gate will have to wait. Both AE now have 1 million+ fleets and they only been awake for a matter of years. Going to have to bide my time and hopefully they wipe each other out then I can strike.

Mods I am using are as follows

New ship classes and more 3.0 & compatibility patch for ISBS
Automated behavior adjustment
Citadels Tier IV defensive stations
Epic explosions
Extra Events
More events mod
Fallen empires expanded
Flexible core planet cap
ISBS doomsday weapons and ships
Improved space battles balance
Improved space battles graphics
LEX
Megastructures
Relics of a fallen empire
Ship power stations
Spaceport Modules extended
Stellar homeworlds
Events module 1.4 and patch for this
UI overhaul 1080
War name variety
Plus a few ship mods and map mods.

They all work well together no crashes at all or other issues.
 
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Update.

180 years in now. The War in heave end in victory, not very eventful, our side had a substantial advantage and we made quick work of the Neutral league and eventually the other Awakened empire gave up with no demands enforced. For some reason he split his fleet in two, 500k each and and we crushed one half of it, after this we had a 2-1 advantage at least but my big bad buddy would not go for the kill and I could not take him on alone at that point.

I am still serving my lord, the awakened empire, he now has about 2 million in strength and I field a fleet of 450k - 150 battleships, 25 dreadnaughts and 25 super dreadnaughts, 1 flagship. I am about 3 years away from producing Titans, that should change things for me, then Leviathans after that. I have a massive economy so when my fleet is out fighting I am still in surplus by 2.1k energy and 1.1k minerals, when in port I produce 3.5k energy and 3k minerals.

The unbidden arrived right when I was massed to take out a neighboring FE who had 700k in fleets, but I should be able to take them. The unbidden delayed this as they spawned in my empire and promptly dispatched of 2 planets and quickly had 5 fleets in play each with nearly 250k. I took them on one by one taking some losses each time, some substantial losses a 2nd Unbidden fleet jumped in and flanked me, sneaky. My fleet was large enough to push on and eventually took out the portal. Took about 5 years to replace my losses. So I though I would give the FE empire another go when a 2nd then 3rd portal opened in quick succession on opposite sides of my empire but just outside my borders. I decided to take a defensive approach and attack fleets that entered my borders, so far I have taken out about 10 fleets for minor losses while I tech to Titans. I am using the strat of let the Unbidden destroy my neighbors worlds then my borders expand and I will take them later, at least for awhile. There constant incursions into my space are keeping them manageable.

A Guardian of the galaxy awoke and has decided to do nothing against the unbidden, so 3 Awakened empires and none of them have done much at all and all the unbidden have spawned in or very close to me. So it has fallen on me to keep them in check, which I have done. This has limited my expansion plus so many are subjects of AE that it is hard to attack anyone.

I took out the Fleet guardian the Eternal gate and got that event chain done, took substantial losses in that battle prior to the unbidden wars.

I have found the watchers of the throne, have not attempted anything there, I have no idea how much fleet power I need they system is field with Leviathan strength stations and a massive ship. The unbidden also said they have come to claim the thrown, me first.

This will be my Iron Throne.
 
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So in short the largest Federation in the game at the time and my largest threats got ROLF stomped
Rolf was there? Rolf, son of Rolf, of the most ancient and puissant House of Rolf?

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