ARMCHAIR ADMIRALS - Stellaris Part 2 w/ Lewis, Duncan, Rythian & Daltos - 12/08/19 

i never realized how much i min/max in this game till i watched them play

Duncan discovering you can purge pops by eating them was the best thing.

Gotta love how Lewis half reads everything with the Enigmatic Fortress and then constantly wonders what he’s supposed to be doing

I swear the yogscast are responsible for the majority of my steam purchases after watching them play stuff!

War objective - Lewis: get the system with worm hole. War objective - Duncan: Humiliate them. and humiliate he did.. literally.. Penetration... literally...

So, researched L-Gates... never does anything with it. >.>

does lewis even know how jump drives work? because he appeared to have them for most of this game....i didn't see him use them once

Theyre at 15k fleet at year 2313 - they are doomed

First break ends 1:40:17 I'll come back with more when I get up to them. 3:06:33

Duncan needs to take his own advice and chill. Seriously, dude. Different people play games differently, and this is very specifically a 4x game with RPG elements, NOT an RPG. Just because Daltos knows some "meta" and wants to let the rest of them know his opinion doesn't mean Duncan should shit on him for it. This seems to be a perennial problem with Duncan, though- complaining when someone disagrees with him or otherwise does something he doesn't agree with- so I'm banking on him not changing his ways. Unfortunately.

I'm at minus 8 motes" Lewis says...and continues to upgrade foundries ha need motes as upkeep xD

Don't listen to Komesator he's a fool.

Do agree with duncan you should play this game to have fun not to try hard like daltos

One mention of Wind Rose and I was off on a musical journey. Wind Rose, Andrew W.K., Gloryhammer, Powerwolf... Ended up at Sabaton. I love when that happens :D

haha i wonder if they know that the end game crisis can spawn at least 50k stacks, i can't wait to see them get massacred.

Before part 1 of this where is the previous stream where they start the game? I cant seem to find it!

I really hope terrible shit pours out of that L gate onto Duncan

In Stellaris against a person who is strategic enough to jump drive into strategic points of the enemies economy it’s not a good idea to keep all of your eggs in one basket unless you know you can defend it. Defence fleets for strategic assets is a good idea if you can dedicate the naval cap. With shipyards you’ll want to have multiple fully built stations all over the place; eventually you can link them up with gateways so you can reinforce quicker and can send to linked up strategic points. However gateway warefare is really late game and can only be performed with empires who have considerable amounts of alloy production. In essence specialisation is a great way to keep track of your planets and where you’re resources come from, however if an enemy acquires an asset key to your empires economy then you’ve effectively lost the war if you’re being pressed from both from a front line assault and a back line assault. This is also a good note to take in mid game and late game wars, if you can jump drive a fleet of corvette spam into enemy space paired with a fleet of drop ships you could win a war by shutting down you’re enemies economy. If you’re gonna fight, fight to win and fight dirty. If you find yourself in a fair fight your tactics suck. You can see an example of the blitzkriege strat on a video aspec made on it, he used such a a strat when he joined a dev game when 2.2 came out.

I do wish that the Great Khan was more of a threat - the Horde almost always gets wrecked by the AI even before I can get to them, and the Khan constantly rides their ship straight into heavily fortified star bases without a single fleet for backup. I've found that the moment the event pops it is usually a lot more fun to become a satrapy to give them enough of a boost to actually accomplish something. It'd be much better if it was on the level of the Gray Tempest, especially since the khan tends to die so fast to assassins as is. Also Duncan, if you go genetic ascension you can genetically engineer pops to be more delicious, which makes them even better livestock.

not that they ever read this but some tips, you aim for planets of at least 15 size or greater. there are 8 building you build on every planet. after that you wing it. for districts you go general purpose in early to mid game. and then specialize mid to late game.

Duncan’s hair is so long I wonder if it’s magic

I can't believe duncan thinks stellaris, a 4x, is a roleplaying game first and foremost LOL, how has he gotten this far?

Bring back Turps and Sjin!