So I didn’t name this challenge, but I had been independently thinking of something along these lines for some time, when the Youtube user “God Ouroboros” posted on Aspec’s recent video, “Stellaris - How to Win the One-Planet Challenge (Endless Livestock Edition” (link below), what they called the “Hostile Galaxy Challenge”.
The rules of the challenge, as God Ouroboros proposed it, are significantly more detailed than the below, but here was the first and most important one:
"1. The galaxy must be filled with only Fanatic Purifers, Driven Assimilators, Determined Exterminators, Devouring Swarms/Terravores, Barbaric Despoliers and Necrophages. Try to have at least one of each type. No friendly empires are allowed except through the player empire enlightening/uplifting primitive civilizations."
I myself might add Criminal Syndicates to that, and in my own personal version of the challenge that I had been formulating in my head, I had been planing to allow myself to release sectors as vassals, as a means of eventually forming the Galactic Imperium and keeping my overall population growth up late-game.
So, my question to the board is, what sorts of interesting spins/builds on Fanatic Purifiers, Driven Assimilators, Determined Exterminators, Devouring Swarms/Terravores, Barbaric Despoilers, Necrophages, and/or Criminal Syndicates might you come up with for a “Hostile Galaxy Challenge”?
And yes, I know that inevitably there will be suggestions of Warhammer 40k-esque empires, if not versions of those empires outright. That’s totally fine if you share your takes on them here. People quickly started calling the “Hostile Galaxy Challenge” the “40k Run” for a reason on Aspec’s video. But I’m particularly interested in creative combinations for hostile /unfriendly empires, even while such a run would be, by design, every bit as much of a grim dark future where there is only war.
Alternatively, what sorts of empires might you design to take on the hostile xeno hordes in the “Hostile Galaxy Challenge”?
The rules of the challenge, as God Ouroboros proposed it, are significantly more detailed than the below, but here was the first and most important one:
"1. The galaxy must be filled with only Fanatic Purifers, Driven Assimilators, Determined Exterminators, Devouring Swarms/Terravores, Barbaric Despoliers and Necrophages. Try to have at least one of each type. No friendly empires are allowed except through the player empire enlightening/uplifting primitive civilizations."
I myself might add Criminal Syndicates to that, and in my own personal version of the challenge that I had been formulating in my head, I had been planing to allow myself to release sectors as vassals, as a means of eventually forming the Galactic Imperium and keeping my overall population growth up late-game.
So, my question to the board is, what sorts of interesting spins/builds on Fanatic Purifiers, Driven Assimilators, Determined Exterminators, Devouring Swarms/Terravores, Barbaric Despoilers, Necrophages, and/or Criminal Syndicates might you come up with for a “Hostile Galaxy Challenge”?
And yes, I know that inevitably there will be suggestions of Warhammer 40k-esque empires, if not versions of those empires outright. That’s totally fine if you share your takes on them here. People quickly started calling the “Hostile Galaxy Challenge” the “40k Run” for a reason on Aspec’s video. But I’m particularly interested in creative combinations for hostile /unfriendly empires, even while such a run would be, by design, every bit as much of a grim dark future where there is only war.
Alternatively, what sorts of empires might you design to take on the hostile xeno hordes in the “Hostile Galaxy Challenge”?
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