Trial and Error - Starsector // EP17 

Another method you can try is the good old lion and elephant tactic. Fight it with your station til the station falls. Then once you get a green check for a clean disengage; retreat. Then repair at the planet and move back into while they are still weak. Repeat til they are dead.. I know you streamed this and wish i was there to assist (with permission of course) Other than that great video.

Reloading a save is like when you are telling a story and you go "Wait.. that isn't how it went." A good callback from one of the Prince of Persia games.

I don't care about save scumming, this game is about three features away from becoming a full-blown RTS roguelike. I'm just hare for the plays.

The m.o. of your Invictus seems to be to use its barrage ability, fire until it has full flux, and then just sit there with full flux doing nothing. I haven't played this patch yet, so I don't know if a different pilot would do that better. Silly A.I.

Cheers for the episode, I'm a proud save scummer, but I can understand if it is not desirable :D Regardless, it was definitely warranted given that Ludd 5 stack, crazy that a faction would launch something like that, relatively early on.

Tough! I have a few suggestions but that would only help if I could time travel. Let's see how this ends.....

I've loved this series, no doubt this episode will be good, as well as the coming stream!

Thank you for all the amazing videos and great content!!

Some of the difficulty in this encounter is definitely from your self-imposed limitations, which I think is really interesting! The whole "I don't trust anyone enough to buy a ship from them / don't have the ability to make them myself" really puts a fun wrench into the plans. While it might not help immensely, I think your Paragon's loadout could be adjusted a little bit. High Scatter Amplifier isn't doing you any favors, and the range mismatch on that Tachyon Lance with your Plasma Cannon isn't ideal. Pairing the Plasma Cannon with the Autopulse Laser would match their ranges and give you a solid source of hard flux on your hardpoints. Putting your Tachyon Lance on one of your turrets (and removing HSA) would help you defend your flanks and your rear (those turrets can shoot more than 180 degrees behind you). Another tactic that COULD help but might also be a wash is to keep an eye on that "Clean Disengage" checkmark in that upper-right corner, along with a possible respec into Field Repairs. You could engage, kill JUST enough enemies to get a clean disengage, and retreat. With Field Repairs, you'll get back most of your armor and hull. You'll also come back to the battle with refreshed PPT (though your CR may take a hit), so you'll be able to handle that extended battle and whittle down the enemies. Anyway, that's enough rambling from me. I'm going to see how this all pans out (got about 3 more episodes ahead of me until I catch up). I hope you find a strategy that works to get these Ludds out of your business! :)

Tach Lance goes "Hmm... Hmm..." and stuff goes "Boom!" Love those things. Really solid first battle. Sitting here trying to mouse over the ships on the video so I can look at their Armor damage. Hehe. Enjoying the hell out of this series. Continuation airs Sunday right? Hopefully I can make at least part of it. Watching this live will be fun.

I'll be blunt, this is the first Starsector playthrough I've seen so my questions might be dumb. Rhad you are doing amazingly well coming up with strategies on the fly while explaining and streaming with a camera on your face, no pressure on the reloading due to insane enemy numbers!! Question 1. Do enemy fleets ever split up, i.e. could the big fleet be whittled down somehow by attacking only part of it? Question 2. Can an AI controlled ship do better without the stupid pilot's commands, to simply more literally follow the players commands? In the video, Rhad's Invictus was clearly hamging back to only engage at its longest distance weapons. If you hadnt assigned a "captain" would it have gone directly to the marker Rhad placed, or would it have still retreated to "correct attack range"? Just not sure what the captains accomplish... or sre they passive buffs like with the MC Pilot, where Rhad reassigned his skill points to make himself a better marksman, etc?

First thanks again for the great streaming

Looking how that Invictus is being handled by the AI, I'd recon it should be forever renamed to "AA Karen". And the AA being the other meaning, cause that looks to be a pilot under some influence 😊 (hopefully it's just not having a fitting pilot)

I have to say, this is the first playthrough the enemy is sending so large fleets to interdict commerce. So far capital ships were usually later waves if you pissed off a faction badly, or AI inspections, not commerce interdiction. Was this patched in recently?

It must be really frustrating for your anchor/assault ship to just sit back and take pot shots.

That big ship of yours doing whatever but your command was quite annoying, to be honest. I'll try to watch the 2nd part live as much as possible!

Least strong ep in the series.

I always get frustrated by the way you command ships in this game. Its so annoying when they just dont do what you tell them to do. You really should be able to give a command like, assault, defend or hang back etc. I know you can issue those sort of general commands but they really dont listen.