How To Win ANY Empire at War Campaign! (Early game is KEY) 

Red Leader: “Lock S-foils in attack position!” Gold Leader: “Keep it tight and watch out for those towers!” Ecks Leader: “Turn on all the things!”

Fortifying choke points is always a good idea.

Eck needs to be teaching how to win EOW as an accredited college course

Please make this a series. I've always wanted to get into this game beyond the skirmishes (which is all I can do). I've played the tutorial but I still have no idea what I'm doing lol

Ah yes “turn on all the things” he should put that on a shirt 😂

5:08 you can sell structures when you get attacked, also cancel the stuf that is being build but you need to keep at least one thing so the battle can happen.

Just started a new thrawns revenge campain as empire today, and i decided this time i would actually do ground battles instead of autoresolving them. But moly holy are they are hard. I lost like 30 pop worth of ground units in the early game trying to invade a planet. Maybe you could do a guide on them too?

I usually fortify the ground on the isolated planets. Many worlds, can be held pretty easily with modest forces in most mods with the unit cap being so low at most starting landing zones; especially those with strong friendly populations. It means you can often just rush the landing zone, build defenses and get the free credits from mining structures. Some worlds are effectively impenetrable in some mods when Turbolasers are installed as well, Kamino and Mon Cala (original map) come to mind as easily fortified worlds that become Cadia with Turbolasers. I don't know how well this would work in Thrawns Revenge, since I haven't gotten a chance to play it yet. But works great in vanilla and in both of the old republic mods I've tried.

Eck forgot 2 MAJOR things. One is the fact that other warlords planets(light green color) and the Hapes(purple/pink color) never attack meaning you can use them to secure borders. Second is that the AI attacks with a fleet that is relative in size to what you have in space at the moment. So if you have a massive fleet of 400-500 the ai will attack with a massive fleet too. However if you have something like a few ships over that planet the AI attack fleet will me much smaller. You can use this to your advantage by abusing the warning system ingame that calls out incoming fleets. You do not get a warning if you have no ships in orbit. Now what you do is you leave any ship in orbit and you keep your main defense force somewhere nearby. If done correctly you can keep while sections of the map safe with relatively few ships. Also evading those massive fleets will let you save ships.

Honestly i like holding the 'Hold out' planets because the AI tends to get distracted on them from my experience, its been years since ive last played, so the Thrawns revenge crew could have made that not a thing anymore.

Hey eck, just an fyi. At the 10 min mark when you start talking about moving your perimeter up by taking Kaal, belsavis and Mustafar simultaneously, you actually only have to take Belsavis! The independent forces (those light green planets) are purely defensive worlds, and do not attack anyone. So actually they serve to create a natural choke point at Bespin because the Empire would have to fight the independent fleets to move in on you, whittling eachother down significantly. Just like in the EU. I've always found it better to put the fleets and troops into taking Belsavis, Eiattu 6 and Vondarc. You still take 3 systems and only have to use those 3 fleets for defense, but you take 3 systems from the EA, instead of wasting forces fighting planets that don't pose any threat, and can actually be used as buffer states.

Thanks for this Eckharts. When I play this game everytime i see a point that could potentially attacked, I always leave a fleet there and then if I want to push into enemy territory i send that fleet in. This will help me be able to.be more effective with less units.

I’m actually planning to get EaW soon so this’ll come in handy when I start playing

To me I always go for choke points but somehow I always get destroyed because I always forget a choke point or there is too many choke points for me to hold

Love yours videos; keep going man

This is really helpful, I'll use these tactics when I next play TR. I'm taking a break from the mod atm while they fix boarding shuttles. Also, it has never occured to me before that you play with the voices enabled. Personally I play with the voices switched off but for some reason the newest update makes Quasars and Mc80s talk even with voices disabled.

ive been good at beatng the AI at hard for some years now its no problem, i love GC but i dont play it anymore becaause when i get close to the end, the game constantly crashes because theres too many fleets and the fleets are huge with many star destoryers, many Super star destroyers too. wish the game could be updated by the developers

Luv ur vids mayne! Could u make a video dedicated to defense in battles.

Love this videos. Make a series. Also why did it reauploaded

The choke point really helped. I always failed after a couple battles even on easy. But I watched the video and it helped

Now that I am truly getting into this game, I am glad to have these videos.

Love the main channel and JUST started watching this one too! I was wondering if you or anyone had either a "hack" or solid strategy for ground battles? I personally HATE THEM, and if there is a unit that either has way too high of an AI value, or a secret combination that can guarantee an auto-resolve win, you would be my hero!

Learned a lot about income from this vid very helpful

Loved It!

Also check out the damage list of the weapons. There are so many of them, so consentrate on the highest damage output. For example proton torpedos are the highest at the missile. When you look to the turbolasers, you should know, that there is a increase at damage from light to heavy or from douple to octuple... but also at the same a decrease at speed. Misiles attack slowly, but with a high instant damage. An other point is to understand how ships attack: The shild go down faster than the armored hull,because all fire power is fixed on one hit point. At the hull on the other side there is usually dozen of hit points, depending on the ship type. So there you can use the advantage of many star ships in a fleet: Put one ship after one, during stopping time, and choose a significant aim like hangar, and critical turbolasers (quad or octuple t. ). By doing nothing it can probabbly happen, that many strong ships attack one target at the same time what is not effectiv. Your bombers are better in destroying shilds than in destroying the hull because of their torpedos. A slow but critical attack. Of course you can use them also on the hull, but splitt them on diffrent targets. I hope you can understand my English. Greeting from Germany and have fun with using different tactics.

oh i thought i saw this video xdd oh i got reuploaded nice!!!! i love your star wars theorys :oooo

Even after almost 500 hours of EAW play time I don't consider my self to be that good, but it is nice to learn from the person who opened my eyes to EAW in general. Although I said it before and I'm gonna say it again, it kinda makes me (and I'm sure many others) feel smart that I already to a lot of these things.

I wish Cody would make a guide that lets us know which planets are worth building mining stations, and other credit generation buildings

I feel a good way to learn is trial and error like I thought building big ships and just throwing them at enemies was the strat but then you lose fighter dominance so I need smaller ships to fight the star fighters as well I’m referencing the fall of the republic mod btw I’ve never been too interested in the original trilogy but I can appreciate the strategy

That of the key planets is gold! I still remember the only gc i lost, it was with the empire. I won a space battle over geonosis and there it was my entire fleet, together with Thrawn, lots of isd, the Executor and the DEATH STAR 2. Well... Ig 88 did his job, and there, the Empire perished

What about the droid attack on the Wookies?

You should def do a ground combat guide. people need it lol. apparently it’s hard to spam walkers until the rebel scum are wiped off the planet

Choke points, and if playing a mod with shield penetration (projectile weapons ignore shields likei n the base game) enabled find a bomber to spam in vast numbers, or better yet something like the skipray blastboat which has torps and missiles in many mods, this will allow you to quickly chew thru your enemies and as you expand only 1 unit is needed to hold space above a hostile planet, this can allow you to expand rapidly and massively. Depending on the mod and how it handles research you nay need to also upgrade your chosen spam vessel to maxamize this effect. A perfect example is phoenix rising, at higjer upgrade levels the skipray blastboat and Kwing both have torpedoes, missiles, and a few turreted lasers, this makes them massively powerful because enemy shields have little effect against your main weapons.

Dang I enjoy this game thanks to you guys. I bought it multiple times during my life and always end up with your mod. By the way, one suggestion: Consolidating is good but I wouldn't attack Mustafar early game. The independent planets have big build up fleets, and while you potentially weaken your fleet to take that planet your overall mission to weaken the real enemy (empire, eriadu) is not progressing. By attacking eriadu first, you weaken them and whatever you sacrifice is worth more while slowly moving towards sullust. Additionally Mustafar doesn't attack you, it even buffers eriadu from you. If eriadu attacks and takes Mustafar though, go there immediately and f@#$ up the leftovers. That way you kill whatever is left and get a cheap planet.

I love ground battles. They are 1/3 of the game? Galaxy map, space battle, ground battle. They are especially epic with Fall of the Republic mod. Tweak some numbers in the files, make B1s not cost any population points(it’s not like the AI recruits them much anyways), and you’ve got yourself a whole lot different ground battles. It’s very satisfying to have a fully upgraded defensive structure planet, shield and planetary shield with turbo lasers. Then set up picket lines with your infantry squads near towers and landing zones. I try to always keep at least on air transport on my choke point planets. So to be able to deploy troopers on the capture buildings for free units or credits, and of course to pop down on the landing zones and deny the enemy a foothold. Ground battles are only boring if you have little appreciation for ground tactics.

I'll try these tactics out. Been only playing Penstar Alignment and really wanted to branch out to something more challenging but just keep getting rolled when playing new republic to the point that it was not fun.

Pro tip for Republic at War: whenever you play as the Republic, build light factories and spam the floating tanks and, when you get invaded, rush them all to the enemy deploy zone and then send in some clones and capture the point after destroying the CSI, it's reslly easy and cheap to do!

Yes! Capture shuttles can make your fleet Uber powerful if you bring one or two with every fleet. Cripple the engines and guns on choice real estate, then swoop in for the steal. Just like using engineers in command and conquer.

Roger, Roger. All things turned on ! Great video tho ! MANY THX Brother !

EckhartsLadder, I would like to see a video on “What if the Republic built the Nebula Class Star Destroyer and Endurance Class Fleet Carrier during the Clone Wars”?

These are just very basic stuffs. Checking planets, heroes and units' abilities and capacities, only advancing into choke points, etc. Any casual player should figure those out by themselves. I figured out most of these strategies after around 6 hours with the game (have only started playing this game for 3 months now). The only new thing I get from the video is abandoning planets and selling buildings there, but that's just because I don't usually abandon any planet, and if someone lose their space battle and expect to lose their planets as well, it's only common sense to sell those buildings. Can't say for other mods out there, but there is one powerful strategy for early game you can use to steamroll AI in Thrawn's Revenge. At the start of any Galactic Conquest, group your ships into 2-3 sizable fleet, one for each enemy faction abjection to your territory. Each should have at least one small and cheap corvette put in the scout spot (thereby making it the first ship entering battle). Then, find some hole in the enemies territories and immediately attack them. Do not be afraid. At the start usually there haven't been strong defense platforms like Golan III or Visvia in the orbits of planets yet. The only thing they have is usually just the space stations, which your fleet with 2-3 capital ships (usually your heroes) can easily decimate. Then, after winning, DO NOT wait there to invade the planet, but simply move on to attack another one. The purpose is not to take control of the planets, but to destroy all the space stations the enemy can use to build ship. If you run into a sizable fleet of the enemy that you can't expect to win without losing a valuable capital ships, then simply turn around and retreat, find another planet to attack, then circle around to attack that planet later when the enemy fleet has moved away (and they do move!). At worst, like if you get caught between Raid Fleet and the enemy and can't retreat, the worst you'd lose is a small corvette. With this active strategy, you can decimate nearly the entire space station system in the enemies' territories without even losing one ship, forcing them to spend time and money to rebuild the stations. Then, you can repeat this strategy again, and cheese the AI dry of money while preventing them the ability to build new ships.

I like the idea for these videos but they seem to be way longer than they need to be. Otherwise great vid!

My only real issue with TR is the minimap on the galactic map. Coming off of other mods like Republic at war and such I thought it would be an easy transition. But that mini map really tricked me, especially with how many similarly colored factions there are. I hope they fix the scaling on the minimap soon to actually show what you are looking at.

I know I am late but you can hold Ithor on the ground indefinitely with the right units as the new republic

Normally I never sell any structure on isolated planets. I prefer fortifying them to meat grinders for any invasion force fool enough to land. EAW's ground units are generally extremely cheap and easy to replace. With smart ground tactics you basically won't lose a single battle.

hey eck. I would for you to do something similar on Fall of the republic, I find it a little bit harder than Thrawns revenge

shhhhhhhhhh Stop revealing all the secrets How am I supposed to impress random star wars geeks now?

When its week 17 in a dark empire campaign. Goodbye ssd why do you have to leave.

this gave me goose bumps when i cliked on it

Okay please tell me what the Pentastar Alignment is going at Scarl.

btw, you cant rush early game anymore due to an update to all of coreys mods where most of ur starting units are replaced with extra buildings like golans

I try to wait or spawn in behind the enemy so they get the raid fleet first lol

My strategy is to just follow the tarking doctrine by conquering all available trade routes as soon as possible and guarding each with a fleet of capital ships.

This looks like a good game. How do I get it? My Steam is having problems

This is so epic

Ayy! it got reuploaded. What is next in this series past this @eckstoo?

Plus If you have strong navy you can make one deathstack Then just rush with the fleet all planets by leaving 1 cheap ship not to allow ai move and make space units)

Y’all should look at project stardust on Roblox Love the series keep it up!

Would it be a good idea to start off with a galactic conquest game in base empire at war or should I jump straight to a mod like remake?

Does the same apply for Fall of the Republic?

I used to build my own GC maps using existing assets and few things extracted from other mods. Bit i never could code a faction that could work (like a 2nd Empire, Rebels or Consortium) and make a massive equal footing GC with new planets a lot of factions all against all.

Does the different difficulty levels change the durability of your ships? When I get to harder difficulties, I feel like my ships die faster even in battles where I am swarming the enemy

I have a question, when i play to thrawn revenge, i can't find how you do to deploy manually your ships. How do you do it ?

One of the best things I ever learned was abandoning territory that cannot be held.

Hi. I was just wondering what that nice white interface is from. Is it a mod? I have Thrawns 3.1 but the interface doesnt look as nice as yours unless thats just the Republic inteface. if its a mod that produces that nice interface could you put a link for me. many thanks :) Also ive literally just installed Thrawns 3.1, so could you recommend a beginner's guide? Theres a lot of information to comprehend, and i cant honestly say I understand for example what the food, industrial, or fleet buildings do as an example.

This video is kinda old so I don’t know if anyone will respond,but why do you just leave some planets without any fleet even a small fleet,or is the sector defense fleets purpose just to go back and forth to attack the empty plants that were just taken

One of the first things I do is sell the isolated planet's ships and structures and concentrate on the south and fortify Mon Calamari and Hast.

i just play eaw with foc expansion. I always go for the edges so i clear out thrawns criminal gangs before they tech up. Then reinforce my positions at choke points. And also depending on map i also buy 1 mine at every planet so i can get good income started. also liberal use of han solo and chewie to sneak in on planet side first before clearing the space.also getting rocket soldiers and rifle squads out and sending out raiding parties.

I found this helpful but on the art of war with empire of the hand on the choke point next to the pentestar alignment they grab there entire fleet and attack me and so does the new republic is there anyway to stop that and I play on easy not normal hard and enable cruel ai

As the new republic forget about all your holdings except for the southern bottom of the galaxy. Fortify the hell out of it

"probably not going to rampage through your territory like a human player would" I had a campaign in FotR that I had just started and withing the first 10 cycles I had already basically lost because the ai somehow had one or two 800 population fleets and was nonstop invading all my planets with them before I even unlocked venators

I just constantly move Stealth Heros around to monitor target planets.

Please do another Jedi Fallen Order video

yes, attack mustafar at the beginning, they only have an executor

Would you try to make the biggest map with corporate sector

Eck is just the Thrawn of Empire at War

ardus cain kept harrasing me at bilbringi and the conection point where the pentestar and the EotH connect for soo long in my most recent campain, fiiiiiiinally killed the fucker after he kept unsucessfully raiding me over and over again. he REALLY underestemated the power of the EotH space defences combined with a huge fleet

I usually use the fleets that are given and consolidate my forces around my main planets, abandoning the far out ones and taking the ones around my capitals. I usually do the 1 planet start because I like having a big tight chunk of land.

So I downloaded the Fall of the republic mod and like it went three seconds and I was attacked by the CIS, and they had this HUGE fleet and I had basically nothing, and it happenes every time no matter the difficulty and it makes me really just wanna give up like, I never even get a chance to build any ships before they attack the next planet.-. and before I know I've lost the campaign.

Does anybody know what the command bonuses actually mean in terms of stats? How much do they improve the fleet?

How the heck do you guys play EAW? I used to love it and got inspired to return to it, but saving takes 5+ minutes on small maps right at the beginning of the game, and I experienced two crashes while playing. I wanna give these new mods a whirl but I can't devote (cumulative) hours to saving to ward off the crashes.

What mods do you use for this game?

How are you able to sell bases when the games paused? Im playing 3.2 and paused means no changes.

Hey who is the guy that was sent to kill zsinj

why reupload?

The one thing I do not like about Fall of Republic. That population, food, and production buildings confuse me.

I can only have 80 units how did you get so much more

can you post a link to the game

If there are new players to the game, I realise the game might seem very overwhelming. It was for me as well. It still is. I've played about 60hrs of EaW and have gained some basic info and am creating a guide/walkthrough for The Fall of the Republic. So if anyone's interested, do check it out. I'll be updating it regularly as I playthrough myself and hopefully new players might gain some knowledge and become better players! docs.google.com/document/d/18MMX9uWpFkMx9ewS2nU--OEyhLgH1ykO1HUw2-m_ozQ/edit?usp=sharing

is the boarding still buged?

I just downloaded EaW but I can't get any mods working. On steam I subscribed, downloaded and everything but the mods don't show up in the mods in-game and I tried the launch option thing too and nothing works, help pls

why does yours look so different than mine?

No views 1 comment! Good to see this system is still broke. Wouldn't be RU-vid without it Edit: may have missed something, but do you have any tips on dealing with SSDs? I've been playing Thrawn's Revenge and have been repeatedly been steam rolled by Zsin early on. Would be nice to be able to deal with him without being forced to retreat and open a new front to get around him

A final crucial thing for NR players out there: do NOT invade Mustafar unless you are very prepared, because there's an SSD there. I learned that the hard way when a raid fleet came in and trapped me there. Don't do what I did.

so i played empire in thrawn's revenge and got beat so hard by maldrood and pentastar on recruit

Does this apply to 3.0+?

What I thought was funny was I had a acalmator I don’t really know how to spell it and a few fighters and bombers and I destroyed Luke Akbar and some fleet commander

Wait did they made a remastered empire at war!? I played this game as a child, 20 years ago

What mod is that

Mod?