How much fleet power is needed to defeat a leviathan? (spoilers)

[serivahn]

Within my territory there are 3 leviathans that I want to take out, but I am running Ironman/hard mode and my situation in this current game is tenuous at best, so I can't afford to lose my entire fleet...

Does anyone happen to know how much fleet power do I need to defeat the following:

Spoiler

Stellarite Devourer, Ether Drake, and Automated Dreadnaught.

 

[Bhangbhangduc]

About 20K on normal and I took like 2/3K in losses. On hard I'd aim for 25/30K.

 

[serivahn]

Thanks, that is very helpful, I was about to try with 17k... so you saved my game!

 

[CarlVonClausewitz]

I just took out a dreadnaught with a ~18K fleet and I took about 4K in losses, including all my corvettes.

Spoiler: Also...

Also, the dreadnaught has massive shields and armor but its guns are all energy weapons, so dropping your armor and wearing your best shields can help you curb your losses.

 

[Drakes]

25/ 30k for the enigmatic fortress ?

 

[Serenity84]

Also depends a bit on the weapons layout. Most leviathans are extremely heavy on armor with no shields, so put on plasma weapons. But the dreadnought and the enigmatic fortress favor shields.

 

[TestosteroneLol]

They vary a bit. Playing on normal, one time I took out an enigmatic fortress with 12k but I'm pretty sure I got really lucky, another time i tried a stellarite devourer with 17k and got rekt. Since then just to be safe I go for about 30k.

 

[Obi]

How much fleet strength i need to kill something called specter?Thanks

 

[Talanic]

10k if you have weapons with high tracking and engage it in a system where the star is the same color as the specter.

Specter has tremendous evasion, and it's even higher if it's not in a system with a matching star.

 

[Ixal]

Different Leviathans also require different strategies. Imo Arc Battleshieps can do some good damage against the fortress but the dark blackhole thing will eat battleships alive as it massively outranges them.

 

[Obi]

Im in 2246 and only now i got to research destroyers,i got around 50 corvetsi can build 20 more but useless,its not even close to 10k..

 

[Obi]

I started playing this few days ago,so maybe its silly question,but how can i occupy someones planet?I attacked with my fleet one planet and destroy defence points to zero but i didnt take control..and soon after that his defence points just keep going up like i gave him kisses not bombs..

 

[Falagar112]

I started playing this few days ago,so maybe its silly question,but how can i occupy someones planet?I attacked with my fleet one planet and destroy defence points to zero but i didnt take control..and soon after that his defence points just keep going up like i gave him kisses not bombs..

Build Assault Armies on your planets, group up a nice stack, give them a general if you want - and land them on planets after reducing their defenses to 0 to occupy.
Once occupation is succesful, you can disembark your fleet and armies and go to the next planet, once its yours, it stays yours. After the war ends build some defensive armies to curb unrest if needed.

 

[MateuszS]

Build assault army (10-15 units) on your planet(s), load on transports and order to attack enemy (bombed and blocked) planet.

 

[Obi]

Thanks for fast replays.I dont have transports yet,i guess i didnt research them yet.

 

[MateuszS]

You get transports automatically when you load army (tab in army page in planet menu).

 

[Osidan]

I started playing this few days ago,so maybe its silly question,but how can i occupy someones planet?I attacked with my fleet one planet and destroy defence points to zero but i didnt take control..and soon after that his defence points just keep going up like i gave him kisses not bombs..

Gotta build up an army and Embark them from the Planet they were built up on, you will then have a fleet of Transport ships that you need to tell to land on an enemy Planet to occupy it. I generally bring 20 or so Robot Armies, as you can get them fairly early and are very effective until you get Genetic Warriors, with my Main Battle Fleet and land them with maybe two ticks left on the Planets defense. Once your Armies trounce the Planet you will get your Flag next to theirs indicating you are occupying a planet in that system. This is just for War Score, you do not keep any occupied Planets unless it is part of the demands. I will usually bounce my Transport fleet back from the Planet as soon as they are done killing what needs to be killed and move onto the next Planet. Your Armies do not need to stay on a Planet to occupy it as you will have basic Defenders in place once you take control...although this could have changed since 1.6.

 

[chegitz guevara]

you lucky bastard

 

[Novacat]

Safe bet, 30K+, especially if your fleet is not optimized to take it down. I probably would even wait until 40K if the worlds are not needed immediately.

 

[Obi]

Thank you all..