Terra Invicta (HF) E9 - Warships 101 (and the AI launching them first) 

I'm pinning this all these months later because I still get a few comments a day asking the question: Why do all your incomes shoot up between episodes? The answer is they don't - I just switch from daily to monthly incomes. It's an option you can access in the options menu.

The Resistance controls Poland. The Resistance is the first faction into space (militarily). Coincidence?

The Devs should add a way to "mark" tech as 'future want' (green) or 'ignore' (red), so when you're scrolling through, you don't have to check you've gone a different route every time.

"Sir Isaac Newton will kill you in the cold dark of space." Sounds like the tag line for a horror movie.

Rather than picking a fight with the Resistance in North America or Europe, you should probably take the Mideast (appears to be entirely Servants/Protectorate?) and unify them into the Caliphate or whatever other meganation they have available.

Perhaps the developers should make that accident that happened to the aliens (in the alternate universe) ALWAYS happen, when you play as the servants. Perhaps it would make them less easy to play. Just a thought. Excellent series btw.

I think you forgot to give the new councilor cybernetics.

"That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not "EYE-BALL IT"

I would call the sorts of ships that only stay in one gravity-well and protect that body a “picket”. Some variety in how that word is used, but in naval parlance is generally means small ships attached to singular ports for defense.

You created a Katiusha for space, perfect for eliminating almost all foreign enemies of the motherland.

Kamya was celebrating. The team always had fun when they got together, which was getting rarer. 11 years in Tomi was never on Earth, even when she was. Max was too busy and also a little cold and scary. Vinsinar and Nero were good mates though - always game and unfailing cheerful. Sahiba heaped loving toleration and made a terrific grump for their jet setting "family game nights" - a kind of running 80-days-around-the-world race to the humanity's landmarks. They had been partying in the streets of Islamabad all night. Reunification, with Kamya as the mouthpiece. She never would have believed it a decade ago. Back then she was a TikTok star, or rather a "star" of modest following with a strong chauvinist outlook. When President Modhi renamed the national party India First, she supported the move. And found herself with a mysterious influx of followers. She started speaking out against the aliens more than she did foreigners, and found herself with still larger audiences for anything she had to say. Eventually a man named Castillo came to India to meet with her. Sahiba had introduced them. Castillo sheepishly told her that he liked her videos. He tried hard to smile, his leather-worn face cracking with effort. Later Max would tell Kamya that he warmed up to her more than anyone, because he would never have to send Kamya to die in battle. Eventually Sahiba suggested she go to the test matches and wear Pakistan's colors. Vinsinar, a cricket maniac who didn't need to be asked, piloted her around the Indian ocean on his jet. Then Sahiba introduced Kamya to some popular Instagram models in Pakistan. Then she suggested Kamya say that Pakistan First and India First were merging into a new world party called Humanity First. And if you thought about it too hard (which Kamya made sure not to do) it didn't make sense. Why would a series of national populist fronts start preaching unity and toleration? But that didn't matter, because you didn't need to think hard. You needed to look at the humans around you. It made perfect sense to them - to the cheering millions who saluted a new flag as it rose over Islamabad. Only Sahiba was still awake, bleary-eyed and nearly inchoate from exhaustion and drink. Vinsinar and Nero were collapsed in a heap on the couch, their normally smart suits wrinkled and unbuttoned. Even Max had stopped by, though he left early to "deal with something." With one hand Kamya raised a glass over her balcony, filming it with an iPhone in the other. "To reunification!" Her phone would buzz and glow for a week.

I made the mistake of trying to coup servant controlled india 6 times in a row (had good opportunity at 20%). Didnt realize the aliens weren't a fan. Lost all my LEO stations nearly immediately XD

I think it's worth noting that fission has some excellent engines. According to a chart posted on reddit recently, one of the best spacecraft engines in the entire game, and by far the highest thrust (at least, without protium fusion) is under Advanced Fission systems, the terrifying sounding Neutron Flux Torch.

Capturing an alien gave me two pip on the hate meter. Just an FYI that you might want some defensive fleets around mercury and mars before you try that since that might put you to getting attacked.

I think it's almost in character with a French Resistance style organization for you to completely backstab and screw over the people who share basically all of your goals.

That surprised gasp at 19:26 upon realizing he could potentially throw the Servants out of the UK was made me laugh.

The trade off between thrust and Exhaust velocity is a thing in RL. Normally for the same amount of energy you can either throw MORE mass out the back getting greater thrust or throw less out but throw it QUICKLY making you have more Delta-V/Range. Systems like NERVA, Fusion etc side step these issues by providing... more power by using nuclear power over chemical reactions. (Atomic Rockets is a great resource if you ever want to learn about this all without browsing NASA papers)

I like the flavour text, how Castillo calls scientists egg-heads and personally keeps hold of the detonator. Like they could have just had a copy pasted message for completing the containment tech but it's nice to have the added flair.

I'd like to see you keep the Resistance as a buddy faction. It would be interesting to see how you would buff another faction to distract the aliens.

I'd love if the game allowed for tech to be marked with 'ignore'. If you decide to say go fusion it would be nice to not see all the fission and antimatter in the list.

I was just waiting for a new video, and lo and behold, here I find it! Thanks for showing off this game! Btw, are you going to be migrating your Dominion 5 videos to this channel anytime soon? I originally found you that way, so I want to know if that's the case.

When you do a cut while you look through the tech tree or your options for global influence, please tell us what you went for after the cut. I want to know dammit 😅

Such an awesome series. Looking forward to new episodes each day. Literally could watch you play this all day

Personally, I’d like to see you play as the Academy. Imagine instead of slaughtering the Aliens you just convince them with facts and logic to stop! Ya know like: “You guys are people, we’re people, you have weapons, we have way more, you have parasitic snot , we figured out a cure for it. Let’s be friends! Unless you’d prefer to negotiate with HF…”

Truly space technicals. Peak Toyota warfare

A German technocrat who's a cynical chemist, and also an astronaut. That just sounds like a James Bond villain.

I have no idea what's going on with most of this game's systems - it's way too complicated for my soft brain - but it is super interesting and fun to watch you play

Hey Perun, could you show the trades you make. It would be interestign to see what trades the AI will accept and what you'd concider worthwhile

Good to know for sure what was implied last episode: traitorous councillors can be turned back to sanity with "Inspire" missions.

With the Resistance putting ships into space I think leaving them be for now would be a good idea until the Resistance starts fighting you again

Make sure you add augmentations to make your new astronaut into a cyborg!

I just got done watching your last vid and the one on the implications of russian mobilization, perfectly timed upload just as I was looking for something else to watch! I'm really liking the play by play, I'm planning to grab the game soon and seeing how this plays out is really helpful.

Thought for the day: "The Alien dream is to dance on the grave of Mankind."

Once again, Max being CIA employee of the month right here

"If you always wait for the next shiny new tech that comes out you're never going to make anything." I actually remarked how much I enjoyed Terra Invicta because of how well it modeled real life space exploration. E.g., by the time you've finished producing something to explore it, its now been made redundant by technological development.

40:45 God, it's so refreshing to see a game that actually has the AI play by the same rules as you instead of having them be scripted and/or cheat. I know it's easier to make the AI a challenge by just letting them cheat and giving them more resources than the player, but I also think that's very lazy; rather than make the AI better at the game, you give them a crutch which allows them to brute force things but which means that their actual skill is low. Looking at you Stellaris, looking at you Sword of the Stars. So a game where the developers went through the effort of actually making the AI good at the game and having them play the same game you do makes me very happy.

Thank you for your videos! I'm picking up many good advises for my own game!

Watching you design the ship reminds me a little of Delta-V : Rings of Saturn. Light up that sunshard baby, we're going to be turning some Alien ships into Alien scrap!

Perun - "Max, I don't want the Servants In the Gulf States anymore." Max - "You got it, boss."

Tasmania represent! Nothing says best island in the world than an ultra lowtech ship that isn't going anywhere fast.

I'm in favor of the formation of any mega state. People have already talked The Caliphate in the Middle East (I would also add The Shia Nation). I think pick a fight with the Resistance on Earth is strategically sound and should be done but in a limited capacity such as taking that Eurasian control point from them. Then take either Canada, Pakistan, or Uzbekistan. (Also some I saw that may nullify a target is Slovakia. Slovakia under Project Exodus and Resistance control; the former could be planning to integrating Slovakia into the EU.) I think you should also do a video on all of the different nation that can be formed; like go through the techs that deal with forming and breaking nations. I also want to how many nation tags there are for the game.

I've been binge watching this series for the whole day, keep them coming! I'll probably grab the game myself once it's in more polished state.

Kamya and Tomi ... ekhem ... INSPIRING each other... Yep. I went there. But only after the Golden Throne joke.

This walkthrough is becoming the best drug I've ever had.

I built as my first ship a monitor with 6 pulsar drives and 10.1 Kps with really heavy nose armor. They were a death trap. I’m currently researching nanotube radiators and armor but the aliens have decided to wipeout my space presence in the entire solar system, I’ve been killing every freaking alien, Hydra or fauna, to my heart content. I forgot about the alien threat level. My poor space pioneers 😢

I’m curious how you would prevent the aliens from just declining engagement with your picket and wandering past them to bomb stuff. I look forward to the real space naval engagements.

I'm super glad you did a shout out on the main channel keep up the good game play (and PowerPoints)!

So I have no idea how common this is, but on my first playthrough, which I felt good about having watched your entire demo series and the first 5 episodes of your humanity first series, I grabbed the US like your US strategy. Anyway, I'm in the year 2024 and am colonizing mars still, but the aliens have bases all over the solar system already including on Mercury. Seemed to be really fast for that???

Its extremely cool that the Alien faction, while obviously not 1:1 balanced with Earth (because they operate on entirely different technology), are still constrained by realistic limits of resource acquisition and construction times. That said, in terms of using the word "realistic", its not very realistic that the first alien race we encounter would be one that is so close to us in technology, and of such limited industrial output that they're even able to be countered at all. A real encounter with a real interstellar civilization, would look more like 50 million ships descending from the Kuiper belt. Not 1 ship deploying 1 base that constructs 4 scout transports per month. But of course, if the game was "realistic" in the sense of incomprehensible scales of interstellar civilizations, there wouldnt be much of a game to play, because there'd be no chance to get past turn 2 and live xD Unless they werent hostile, at which point again, there wouldnt be much game to play. But its just an interesting thing to keep in mind during gameplay. Basically in the ingame lore, Earth is unbelievably lucky to have met such a backwards starved alien civilization that barely has any more resources than Earth itself.

"I've been thinking about Poland," nothing bad ever followed sentence.

This is totally unrelated to the game, but you actually radiate heat at the same rate in atmosphere as you do in vacuum. The difference is that you can’t lose heat by convection and conduction. Different processes, but still very interesting if you dive into the math of it! Excellent videos, I’m loving the series and learning a lot about how to play!

Great job I've really been loving your play style and the way you explain what you're doing. Can't wait for the next episode!

A gamey strat you can do to bait the aliens to fight you is to lower your fleet's kps to barely enough get back to station. Your fleet power lowers immensely, but your weapons fire all the same. You can get the aliens to fly into a 400-500 power fleet that is more than enough to fight off 2k worth of aliens. Kps impacts fleet power stats way more than it should and the aliens basically determine if their fleet should take a fight or not while at war by comparing fleet powers to one another rather than tonnage or weaponry.

Just finished watching all these episodes, it's nice to see a letsplay of this game where the player knows what the heck they are doing lol. I was just wondering if you are ignoring the moons of Mars on purpose? Are they bad or something? Thanks and keep up the good work!

The problem with only taking the engine you want out of the current 'level' is that currently there's know good way to know what engine leads to what without researching them. I suppose eventually a good wiki will go up with fleshed out stats and connections, but I'm currently researching engines I'm not sure if I'm going to use half the time just to see if they unlock a better engine I might actually use because I'm not sure what's superior to what nor what leads to what without actually unlocking them to get my hands on their stats.

That resistance ship has the color scheme of the Martian Navy from The Expanse

Dude I found another guy playing this game as the academy and I was like damn these fools wanna be friends with the aliens and I was like na so I found your videos and I've been like watching this shit and it's the shit plus you upload like once a day omg good shit

This is shaping up to be a very interesting game

I think you should start a temporary fight with the Resistance to secure some strategic regions, before buttering them up to make peace again at some point after. OR make a move on Project Exodus if there is something good to take from them.

Excellent another episode 🥳

If the aliens have events and economies of their own it would be interesting to see a reverse campaign, you play the aliens. Or even multiplayer with the role of aliens going to the most experienced player

Very cool Perun! Love this series your making!

Absolutely loving this series 👍

I was hesitant to try this game until your videos. It really tickles all the micromanagey things that get me hooked on games like this.

Hope you make it to space combat before the -10% off finish, pretty much last part im on the fence before buying the game.

Quiet looking out for the next one!

I've been following the series through with my own playthrough after buying the game and I still do not understand how you have such a massive research speed XD

5:10 I really like how this game makes you weigh options. There's no one clearly correct path. Keep your allies strong and they'll fight for things you care about. Go it alone and you might fail.

imo they need more in depth relation system for other factions, id really like to have a proper working relation with the factions

LOL "Adamantane armor." Adamantane is a real compound with the same shape as diamond... except adamantane's units are not arranged into a bonded crystal lattice. It is an extremely weak and brittle solid as a result. Adamantane's current use is as a chemical precursor to drugs like memantine that share its structure. Adamantane has been proposed as a _propellant_ in Hall-effect thrusters, though.

For ship design are you able to install 1 or 2 of the more advanced chemical engines then reserve them for exclusively for combat action maneuvers? I feel like have a good flank speed could really matter even in the early game.

Is there a way to see what threat levels the other human factions have got with the aliens?

just as i get a ship yard and save-quit, i see this, its all comin together

Created my first ships yesterday. Invested a lot on missiles because they had good range and damage compare this the other options. Launch an attack against a alien scout. I won at the price of two ships (one was the destroyed, the other had his engine destroyed during the fight and I didn’t know how to repair it so I scrap it). A few months past and then I just kill one alien and they launch a DREADGNOUHT to destroy my fleet. Got all of my ships destroyed but the bastard was damaged and went to repairs far into the solar system. I had spend the last three hours building this fleet…

Just wanna say I’m loving the series and I hope you can manage this and the main channel

Commenting mostly for susan but MORE TERRA INVICTA

Some of the spaceship stuff seems to be handled weirdly. Like how all ships seems to have variable thrust. Reducing thrust without reducing power gets you higher isp for better dv during transits (which is not something that happens in game), but reducing power to get lower thrusts with same isp rarely makes sense and those few scenarios in which it does, don't seem to be modeled in game. One would be to reduce acceleration to human tolerable levels for longer periods of time(which is irrelevant if your max acceleration is >1g), other would be to reduce radiation from rocket in some overcomplicated scheme to save on radiation shield mass. Propelant seems to be volumeless, which is a massive loss of oppurtunity to balance armor mass, crosssection and isp (ex. hydrogen will give you higher isp than water but has significantly lower density, which in the end means that in some situations it might be better to to use latter). Obvious things which are also missing are staging, different thrusters for combat/transit and variable isp thrusters which work as intended. I could go on and on, but presumably devs and community are aware of this and it will be fixed as game gets developed.

About the ships - while i have similar thoughts, i'm also a sucker for a destroyer with a super massive laser cannon on the nose xD

Uniting Eurasia and North America in a union would be a cool mid-term goal.

I'm sure your busy but guides would be immensely helpful after a few tutorials into space as the resistance I can't tell my foot from my ass in this game. The early game is something you can limp through. Space not so much, too many decisions which is overwhelming. My assumption currently is much of tech or decisions is for roleplay and not per se rivaling the alien threat properly.

For anyone looking to steal the space stations of other factions, I've noticed they tend to outfit their early game ships with ~9.5 dV. You'll get stuck in a perma loop of fleet evasion if you have less than 9.5 dV yourself, so plan accordingly. After the battle it's simply a matter of spamming assault base until it succeeds or your run out of marine charges. 4 attempts is usually enough

Weapon project and drive projects is like a avalanche for your scientists

Which research projects are for just you, and which ones are for everyone?

Loving the series, hanging out for more ep's

Idk if you saw but fighter is a medium dv class of ship designation. They have low dv planet defence classifications.

I've never managed to get such an insanely high science output. I'm gonna have to rewatch some of your older videos...

Would be interesting for a video on fleet formations, and how to maneuver so get the best over lapping coverage of PD. I have been experimenting with pairing ships, so any main ship has a Point defense ship that has light lasers, PD lasers and fast fragmentation missiles, all set on defense only. That gives three ranges of interception fire. Putting out a cloud of anti-missile missiles ala Auroa 4x seems to help, before th e light lasers then the PD kick in, and ideally multiple ships can cover each other. Just struggling to evade and keep everyone in the other's defensive spheres

Perun: "Knowledge for the knowledge god!" Me: Hail Tzeentch!

I was watching that ship building video

So I missed how you managed to turn your traitor back to the side of goodness and light. Was it hard? How was it accomplished?

The space tutorial was very useful!

Interesting you were using the copperhead missiles, the vipers seem better to me than copperhead and oyu have them researchable, but maybe I am missing something. It is not clear to me what the damage vs armor stat does for example

Made me laugh how after the Pheracyte explanation, it went into an ad for Clorox. Cleansing the Unclean.

It's funny how different you can be in regards to money income. I try to keep a decent buffer, but I usually don't even blink an eye to being a couple hundred in the negative.

Great video, I love learning more of the game from you. Right now I'm trying to do a Eurasian strategy with the EU and China. The aim is to go for greater EU and to get China by Taiwan. Taiwan has 9 gov. You would need 7 years of doing only education to catch up with just China. You only need unity movement to get the claims. In the tooltip it says Economic development and research point is impacted by gov score. I think it's possible to get the most crazy China with this strat.

I have this problem: when I autoresolve battle I always win, even if it's just mine transport fleet 11 power vs aliens 1k dreadnaught. Should tell devs about it

It's weird that the aliens aren't kicking you harder in space. I've been attacked by them in space repeatedly at Mars starting in 2026 and they had 4 bases in the Asteroid Belt by 2025 and I've never been higher than 2 pips on the threat meter.

2:30 am. New Perun video. Let’s go.

Poland can into Mission Control?! It’d be cool to see a Unified North America. I think you can also mess around with capital locations somehow to unify meganations? That might be cool to see. If you do go the USNA route, it might be best to rush it so you have time to recover your miltech before the end of the 2030s when uhhhh… you know.

If the aliens are helping the servants and/or protectorate, does that mean they have communication tech? And if so, can you spy or steal it?