I’ve had stellaris for a while now, but always had a hard time getting into it. Your guides have been INCREDIBLY helpful for me and I always refer to them during my playthroughs. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE

@volairen

11 ай бұрын

Your welcome! I love hearing stuff like that!

Offensive armies are pretty much only needed on conquests wars where fully taking over claimed systems gets you to winning the war quicker. In everything else, you can pretty much win by kicking the enemy fleets ass and racking up war attrition. If you get a colossus, armies on offense is completely unnecessary due to the nature of the colossus and the ‘total war’ war goal.

Armies in theory need a 6 min video. Armies in practice only need this comment: Spam the most expensive army you can build.

I dont agree with your ranking. Early to mid game, all armies are capable of conquering any planet in sufficient number, so a ranking of them is useless. However, late game, you will need as much powerful army units as possible (due to combat width) to deal with those crisis and fallen empire planets. Thus, psion, gene, and the warforms are S tier despite their cost.

I'm trying to invade a planet with a human army I can't land them because the planet is unhabitable any idea how fix this?

Very comprehensive guide with all the prerequisites for each army. More like a manual than a guide though.

@volairen

11 ай бұрын

Yeah your right. I think I could have thrown more tips in there.

@g4md0r32

11 ай бұрын

@@volairen I think having 2 separate videos about it is better tbh. Manuals are something these games lack as far as I know. A full guide would be like 35 min XD

I dont think you mentioned this in the vid (or i might of missed it), but planetary devistation increases damage to defending armies, with 0-25% doing half damage, 25-75% doing normal damage, and 75-100% dealing double damage. (I believe this applies to armies as well, but for sure applies to orbital bombardment). I'll take collateral damage bonuses where I can so the army can independently proc the damage bonuses without needing bombardment.

@volairen

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for pointing that out.

@midweekcentaur1050

9 ай бұрын

Only applies to bombardment damage to armies. Not damage dealt by armies during combat. It simulates there being less places to take cover from the bombardment..

I would argue that the stats wise best armies are the best pic, even if they on paper don't have the highest cost/effectiveness ratio. This is because battle width limits the amount of troops that can be active at one time, so qualitative superior armies can shred through hordes of cheaper ones and win even if in total the stats of the cheaper ones are better. On top of that, fielding few, high health armies reduces causalities drastically to a point where they can be completely negated against most planetary armies. This makes them way easier to handle logistically

Great video!

@volairen

11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

I don't fully understand the macro concept. Can I land them on my own planets for defense?

@volairen

11 ай бұрын

Yes you can

@nealm6764

11 ай бұрын

@@volairen Thank you! All your guides have really helped. Right now the Habitat one is incredibly helpful!

I just wish specing into very strong, defensive army buff Warrior's culture and whatever made yor armies better Sometimes i get surpised