GLORIOUS ADA PART 5

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.

Part 1 can be found here (T1-T6): https://www.games2gether.com/endless-space-2/forums/65-general/threads/31424-glorious-ada-arr-part-1
part II can be found here (T6-T12): https://www.games2gether.com/endless-space-2/forums/65-general/threads/31451-glorious-ada-part-ii

Part 3 can be found here (T12-T16): https://www.games2gether.com/endless-space-2/forums/65-general/threads/31478-glorious-ada-part-3

Part IV can be found here (T16-T20): https://www.games2gether.com/endless-space-2/forums/65-general/threads/31503-glorious-ada-part-iv

An overview of the ARR can be found here https://www.games2gether.com/endless-space-2/forums/65-general/threads/31512-glorious-ada-arr-overview-thread

This is part 5 starting on the end of T20. Savegame: ADA end of t20.sav

We formulated some goals at the end of the last part:

Goals for T21-25:

- Colonize nihal or Aeri if mining probes are lost when colonizing a planet. If not then we will colonize Lonica.

- Conquest of Ainae and possibly one more system with 1st liberator fleet.

- Destruction of pirate base at jovantus and if possible manage to conquer Kuma as well with the 3rd liberators during the next 5 turns.

- 2nd liberator fleet goes into the unknown and gambles upon meeting a system northeast from lonica.

- A massive improvement of our fleets. Expanding size from 3 to 6 ships. Upgrading of tanks or upgrading to air power.

- Doubeling of science values. Doubeling of industry values. Doubeling of dust values.

- Build an amplifier of the republic behemoth fleet that will give a 15% or more fidsi bonus to either Micre or Cardano

- Increase our movement options with wormholes, warp speed bonus and better movement modules for our ships.

Also we will try to spread out sophons for a future -20% tech reduction (will combine with other bonuses and be very powerfull) if we can reach 50pop.
We will also build several new behemoths and grow our behemoth tech line. If at that point we are done with techs we will head for empire development to try to reach a new law slot and also set us up for carriers.

We change the tech queue loading up on behemoth techs and hoping that you can mine with a mining probe even if you have not the resource explotation tech (if not we need to reorder the tech que)

We also send a sophon from Micre to Ursa

With that we end t20.

Elections starting t21 is quite dramatic. Ruthian has grabbed political power with the religious party. We now have two possible senate hero members.

Start of t21 savegame: ADA start of t21.sav

We discover a minor faction that could prove very usefull to conquer - i mean peacefully liberate..

Argosy is ready for yet another colonization. Hopefully we can manage 2 colonizations during these 5 turns.

We upgrade our armors as the enemy systems seem to be gaining defence

We build the ITER getting us 5 KEII

We buy 3 eden insence to boost sophons (boosting the 3 population types that will give us tech cost reduction and tech % rate)

Norn levels up twice due to ITER built and focuses on industry / food boost

Riftborn hero levels up once as well focusing on dust

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Kogewa levels up focusing on dust

Ruthian with his new found poltical power levels up as well and as a member of the senate he becomes a conscription genious promcing all the glory of becoming like horatio himself

Due to not having an ecological party in power anymore we need to rethink our laws. We do not need extra movement this turn and will focus on system improvement reduction

7 systems out of 7 gain population this turn :)

We finish the following constructions:

We unlock the next tier on system development, sadly we do not have any good resourc targets to use.

We finish the miner behemoth tech - however we will wait to upgrade until next turn when we have more support modules on the behemots with the next tech we are researching.

The argosy heads for nihal - we will leave lonica alone to be mined by mine probes.

In Aine 1st liberator fleet attacks!

With sucsess gaining KEII (that we have 100 of already )

We declare war on the sisters of mercy in preperation of the ground invasion

We try to blitz the defence

Winning decisively with 1 pop loss and sadly loosing an industry building.

We occupy as we need to speed up or system growth and the only thing we could spend keii on this turn would be the +1 fidsi per planet thing at 25 KEII and it feels not worth it at all

Queue in Ainea

We send one ADA population from Esh to Ainea

Queue in Ursa

Queue in Zinius

Queue in Janus

4th liberators fleet created and headed for Janus where it will add to its strenghts

Queue in Esh

Queue in Baten

We create a new design Hiragana that will be our knowledge fleet behemoths

As well as a Kanji design for the fleets that will amplify FIDSI

In Cardano we are building something cheap to store up production so we build a scout

The same we are doing in Micre to prepair to build more advanced behemoths next turn

With that we end t21.

Savegame start of t22: ADA start of T22.sav

We are the first to finish the deed of having 3000 manpower. Depoyable ramparts are definitivlt nor bad !

We upgrade our Kodachi they now carry a massive 800 manpower each and can also function as siege if needed.

Bumper crop event we easily want more strategic resources. Really great turn for us so far!

We no longer have +2 vision event on our fleets

Ada population boost ended and we definitvely want to keep boosting our population of ADA

Luckily we have Dark Glitter

7 out of 8 system grow this turn and we gain many galvran citizens a happy event.

We finish a bit of production

And tech

Especially enhanced behemoths will hopefully make a difference

Sadly transwine increase in price :(

We redesign our Tachi on the Honor fleet carrying our banners. It goes from a radius of this

(We have two extra support slots we add more banners)

After 250 dust upgrade it becomes this size gaininng several of our systems :)

Ofcourse we now boost our honor fleet with way of the obsidian eagle

Going from 5013 industry total on all systems

To 5624 industry a massive 624 industry per turn boost to our empire from a single source :)

We throw in homeland defence for good measure as it is cheap and boost our manpower growth.

Hakkaido design is upgraded to a massive 1125% mineral probe bonus

Hiranga is upgraded as well (and will be upgraded again in 2 turns)

Kanji is upgraded as well it will net us 50 FIDSI and 25% FIDSI bonus on the system it orbits :)

We queue up a Kanji in Cardano

Upgrading hakkaido on the minters of the republics fleet is not cheap but hopefully will be very worth it

On Janus we merge ships into 4th liberator fleet and upgrade the ships to massive manpower carrying beasts

In Jovanus we blitz the pirates

Gaining Keii and titanium :)

And we push on towards kuma

Argosy heads for Aeri as we decide to colonize next turn (we cant get enough hyperium this turn)

Ofcourse faith then decides to play us a trick to let us know we could have played better as our next scouting of curiosities nets us hyperium (note to self always explore curiosities before doing other moves)

We upgrade the 1st liberator fleet and let them stock up on manpower for a turn.

1st eyes of the republic goes out into the unkown while 2nd eyes sends out quite a bit of probes and 2nd liberators fleet head for Isso for conquest.

Queue in Ursa

Queue in Zinius

Queue in Micre

On cardano the new scout ship explores and gains slugs quite good to have around!

Queue in Baten

Queue in Esh

And queue in Janus

We sell more luxuries and buy a new hero on the market - a scientist councelor

She will governor on Ursa

With that we end the turn.

Start of turn 23: ADA start of t23.sav (will be continued later)

We start the turn with some hostile greetings from the unfallen

Oh and the crush everyone else in the galaxy type of Cravers seems to want to greet us as well

We discovered another neutron star - a possible target for our behemoths

Spaceman event over helping our influence quite a bit!

Our empire now has 20 Galvran giving us a nice bonus, we are also very soon getting 50 ada population.

7 out of 8 systems grow this turn

Norn levels up, not much to choose from so we go food (we could have considered making him a mix of governor / ship captain )

Ruthian will go for Public relations expert since he is in the senate. He sure has used his politic position as soon as the religious party took power. (Hopefully it will stay in power gulp)

System improvements and such finished this turn

We find Zvali on Baten - we want to encourage growth of them as well so we buy a bluecap mold and boost the pop.

We also boost sisters of mercy as we have a religious senate leader that we want to let stay in power

It seems the cravers are coming from the east

They seem to have varied designs some energy based and some kinetic based

Cardano have increased quite a bit in FIDSI because of the kanji in the 1st systems operation fleet

2nd eyes of the republic keep fighting for control over Lonica, important since we will have our mining operations here very soon.

1st miners of the republic arrive at Lonica where we quickly find out that you do indeed need the technology before you can mine.... (we need to change the tech order!) - oh well we can atleast mine 33 glitterdust and 33 hydriomiel per turn and the probe only last for 60 turns lol.... (game will have been over by then probably) that means after the Hakkido has sent out probes we can probably redesign it into something else.

We sell some resources so we can afford argosy to colonize the aeri system

We decide to redesign kodachi for future builds as we need more movementpoints and 350 manpower per ship is already quite a lot

For our queues now we will also prioritize more to gain manpower as we are going to spend quite a bit of it per turn as well going forward.

Queues

4th liberators head for lonica and possibly onwards. We are going to need more fleets soon and fleets that can move faster.

1st liberator fleet heads for gny8

Janus sends a galvran to Aeri system as we want to reach 50.

3rd eyes of the republic scouts and follows 1st liberator fleet onwards.

In Jovanus "someone" (horatio color) has settled so we have a nice system to capture soon :)

With that we end our turn. Sadly we need to sacrifice to gain KEII this turn that will slow down our pop growth. We need to find more targets for combats to keep fueling our KEII.

Savegame start of t24: ADA start of t24.sav

Cravers seems all fuzzy and warm to us now because we are enemies with the unfallen. Too bad we need the KEII from cravers too ^^

We buy luxuries and reboost Galvran

The ada population now gives us a -20% tech cost. Now thats what I can a bonus :)

8/9 populatio grow this turn (granted we loose a population in Micre to observance so in reality 7/9)

Alezne levels up

As well as the riftborn hero (someone tell me the alt + code for his sign please :P)

Construction completed, micre has quite a bit of loaded up production we can spend.

We finish another behemoth technology and now we can redesign the Hiragana class

800 science and -15% technology cost of the type of study is pretty nice!

Micre builds one with its stored up industry - it will head for the black hole iras 043395

We move our ships that had queued up movement and we discover the homeworld of the unfallen

It has 185 infantery and 62 armor some 1855 manpower YIKES. Not to mention it is a bloody citdal as well. Well we shall go where eagles dare! (yes i like that movie) I think we need to siege Corana so we will not wait to load up more troops but instead as quickly as we can get to Corana to start the siege.

But first the 4th liberators fleet will destroy a craver fleet happening to come there for KEII

I am shocked cravers retreat! Be a man (oh wait...) !

We ofcourse refuse to stop

20% of the galaxy is now explored and it is quite a big galaxy out there I guess

System construction queues (excluding micre that is already shown above)

Janus is making another scout fleet that will send out probes as well.

Cardano will store up some production and build more defensive space for manpower to be stored. Sadly we also need to do a blood ritual to keep the KEII strong.

Exploring on Aeri we find antimatter!

We add the antimatter tech to our tech queue

That ends our turn. Next turn we will probably decide on a system development as we are running out of stuff do to without it. We should also consider doing trades for resources.

Savegame start of t25:ADA start of t25.sav

We have lost control of the constillation Norma. AUCH 15% less science. That Corana is going to fall!

Argosy is ready again

We head for Nihal

8/9 grow (7/9 adjusting for observance sacrifice)

Norn levels up again soon ready to hit the senate with skills.

Finished construction

Finished techs - we now see wormholes !

And finally we can get orichalix !

With our influence spreading we start to gain control of the map

Luxury prices are increasing. At this point I think it is mostly good as we will probably start to sell luxuries at a point (and more than what we buy)

1st knowledge fleet with our hiragana heads for the black hole eta 1 turn

4th liberator fleet attacks and gains us some KEII - it now will head for corana with war banners active to speed up the process.

We also do some radical action changing from hatched at home to star boogie bill. We will change back soon but for now we need fast ship movements

1st miners of the republic start mining operations on lonica. My my !

2nd eyes of the republic and 4th liberator fleet head for corana. Eta next turn

3rd liberator fleet attack on Kuma

We DOW

Blitz

And subdue for KEII

2nd Liberator fleet fights on Isso - we go with short even if they have a high hit chance because they are using projectiles and we have hull.

We absorbed a bit of the damage with the hulls

Gaining some KEII as well

We DOW Kal'Tik'Ma

Blitz

and occupy due to the nice minor faction bonus

With that we gain control of another constillation (but we need that 15% science constillation back!)

Jadinox discovered.

3rd eyes of the republic probes and heads for amosa to trigger the quest

1st liberator fleet hits niris as a minor faction. Now thats a lot of food % bonus!

1st liberator fleet fights on nerod - we use hull boost since they are kinetic.

Winning

DOW Niris (yes we do this pattern all the time heh)

Blitz

And occupy

Hay makers is not bad at all - will ensure almost 1 pop growth on all systems every turn.

1st liberator fleet pushes onwards

2nd liberator fleet is upgraded

and push towards the wormhole in kuma

The newly formed 1st exploration guard (explorer ships that will probe and other guard duty) heads for esh to counter the cravers

1st knowledge fleet doing its thing :)

1st expeditionary formed on zinius and heads for a wormhole at ursa finding riftborns and a nice system to colonize

We put down order of the red blade on our honor fleet

1st exploration guards fight on ESH.

They retreat

1st eyes of the republic at the very front of the war lands on the citadel and probes in all visible node direction and scouts finding more antimatter!

Seeing enemies all over the map millitaristic policies start to gain approval

We also discover an asteroid field

[President ADA] there is wisdom in the crowd. We must indeed gain military superiority to make sure of our survival and dominace. We will unite a majority of systems under our control so we can all finally feel safe! But this must be done with haste - in fact we shall try to do it faster than we have ever done before with less than 50 time units.(turns)

Having rushed in and scouted away the 1st eyes of the republic slip away to safety in Niss

1st exploration guard sends out 3 probes and waits in ambush for the craver fleet to arrive

We queue up new construction

Cardano start to transform as we need more influence and it has a wonder boosting science so should go for better science planets

Janus sends a galvan to aeri

Baten sends a z'vali to ainea

Esh sends a galvran to isso

1st miner fleet heads for esh where it will be upgraded

We queue up some technologies for influence

And that is the end of t25: ADA end of t25.sav

With our empire having enemies on all sides there is only one answer that seems obvious to the hisso -offence is the best defence. The long term goal has been set conquest of the galaxy before turn 50!

Our systems have grown quite a bit during this period we have 6905 industry 6986 science and 113 population with 1.9K dust per turn. We did not reach our target of doubling dust but it has not been needed either.

Politically we cannot afford to stay in star boogie bill for long if we do not increase our influence

System development wise we could always boost dustcidious trees and hydromiel for +60dust +4F per turn but hopefully we can gain some better resource and it is not that major boost for us as of now anyhow.

Strategic resource wise we are actually constantly short on titanium with all our fleet building. We need to prioritize getting more strategic resources!

We have many fleets and our manpower is growing healthy. We might want to consider gaining more ships that can store a higher manpower as a goal as well (and not bound to titanium)