Hello. I am Eysteinh a long time fan of the endless series.  From time to time I write ARR where i both immerse into the game and also try to show some of my thinking of why I do the moves I do both for my own learning experience but also for others learning experience. Hopefully someone finds this usefull or interesting. This ARR leans more heavily on the strategy part but I also sometimes add immersion or story elements.  I was not sure if the ARR should be in the general thread or in creation thread and I also had to create a forum post for each part as if not the images would be far too many to resonably load in one go on some mobile devices. Because of that I decided it could be a good idea to collet all the part in one overview thread so I created this thread with an overview for whoever wants to read the whole ARR story.

Abstract: Custom faction using both powerfull involentary nomads & honor bound combo and extreme foreman and planet menders combo while using new behemoth and keii mechanisms to try to reach a very quick conquest victory. Results where good and it is believed a sub t30 victory even on huge with all custom factions could theoretically be possible. 

Result: T36 victory. Several mistakes made and not optimal fleet movement nor heros on fleets seems to suggest several turns could be shaved off. An even more lucky start and it could perhaps be possible with a sub t30 conquest victory even on huge with all races. Other findings where how way of the eagle can be boosted over huge radius with a behemoth fleet specializing in range. 

You could probably queue fealty foundation in the queue and have it more than 2 turn produce with things in front of it on the queue and then have sort of a "deposit" of 25 KEII that you can get back at any time by removing it from the queue.  Something to consider doing when you are about to hit 100 KEII.

My overall impressions after the game was that Endless Space 2 is at this point far and beyond any other 4x games out there in the possibilities it can create and the stories you can make. The amount of detail and overall skill level of the game is quite staggering.