Some pretty good piloting there as the battle seemed to swing against you. Great recovery!

Good showing in that fight but I'm not sure I would have taken it myself. It was a tough matchup in general for the Domi. It doesn't kite well and that's kinda the situation you were forced into. I'd want more fighter wings and PD for a fight like this. I find eliminate orders to be extremely high risk and I tend to use engage a lot more since it seems to offer significantly more flexibility to the AI with regard to how it engages a threat. I also tend towards cautious captains and pilot high speed flagships myself as a sort of cavalry. You also forgot to remove the eliminate order after the Enforcer died, which runs the risk of another ship picking it up. Not likely to happen in a battle like this where all your ships have other orders, but in a big battle it can sometimes lead to a conga line of death as idle ships decide to get bloody minded. One other thing you seemed to have underestimated a bit is the strength of a fighter wing, or six in this case. Your poor fighter jocks were outnumbered 3:1 which is a tough situation to be in especially since you really only had a single wing of broadswords trying to cover your daggers. This led to a situation where the Colossi were able to really put a lot of pressure on your flagship there and force you out of engagements. That said, the behavior of the Enforcer pilot seemed extreme. I think what happened is he was trying to flank around the shield and just neglected the other ships in the vicinity. Aggressive pilot? The Hammerhead did well. It's a good matchup for paper ships like the Colossi since it can crank up pressure so fast without worrying about sustaining the engagement. I probably would have kept piloting it myself, as the aformentioned cavalry basically relying on the Domi as a big brick of distraction but I'll admit I'm a pretty bad Dominator pilot. I struggle with lowtech as a rule though.

@GrumpyThumperGaming

11 ай бұрын

Yeah I had intended to use my enforcer to clear the colossus from the outset of the fight, maybe manually piloting if I had to, but I lost it early on. A few more ships and this would have been a much cleaner fight 👌

Personally ive always just had my entire fleet escort my anchor and it usually works better than micromanaging groups, it gets boring but its effective. That being said i never use carriers and usually have a 100% attack fleet with support just being more ships with guns

@GrumpyThumperGaming

11 ай бұрын

Good idea, when it doubt just escort. That said, I'm not so sure we would have won here if I did that. I think the micro, especially to capitalize on the flanking maneuver, was what lead us to victory.

Great episode, learned a lot.

Thank you for the video.

@GrumpyThumperGaming

11 ай бұрын

You're welcome, thanks for watching 👍

You should play your Dominator SO with PCL, Devastators and Heavy Machineguns since most of your ships are close range.

@GrumpyThumperGaming

11 ай бұрын

Oh boy I want to, but for the sake of education, I want to get away from SO builds.

Btw, I think they made changes on the reputation loss when commissioning with a faction. It seems like when a war starts you loose like let say 50 rep, but when the war ends instead of gaining 50 rep you gain only 40 or 45 back. I started a new game and I'm already at -25 rep with the Persian League, although I'm no longer in commission with the hedg, and I never fought their ships. I could have lost like 3-4 rep from black market trading but not 25...

I learned about Anchor ships recently. What I can't learn/figure out, is how to have my smaller ships/frigates to retreat towards it when they need to recover/relief before going out and chasing again. The smaller ships just seem to go around to the left/right edges, gets isolated then explodes because it did not retreat towards my anchor ship.

@GrumpyThumperGaming

2 ай бұрын

you might want to check your officer settings or fleet aggressiveness. if they're timid or cautious they will unintentionally corner themselves trying to avoid enemy ships.

@anthonyreyes2554

2 ай бұрын

@@GrumpyThumperGaming will do, thank you!

Has there been a patch or update lately.? Last I played , there was barely any campaign , but some things where functioning as intended, nice game imo

@GrumpyThumperGaming

11 ай бұрын

Well depending when the last you played was there have been some massive changes to the games. I started playing a tiny bit before 0.95.

@DonTeridon

11 ай бұрын

@GrumpyThumperGaming probably 2 years ago... they had just implemented the first few missions of the campaign

@KnightNave

10 ай бұрын

Theres a lot, like an entire main questline. 3? side adventures. Slipstreams. Revamped Skillpoints. Core world raiding. 5+ new Capitol ships. DEM missiles. Bonuses for building in hullmods. Distinct faction identities. Event system. New [Redacted]. Some super cool [redacted] and a [redacted] that you can give to different factions for various rewards (like no more pather terrorism) @@DonTeridon