As the title states, I am trying to decide which one to go choose for my custom faction and I can only pick one of the two traits to max out. So I need your advice/opinions please.



Which do you think is better through out the game?



Which has the bigger impact late game with dreadnoughts etc?



Thanks



PS The faction will be very war based.

As in make lots of ships and go rambo it up!

It will depend on how you design your ships.



If weapon modules will take up most of your ships tonnage, or if you intend of producing smaller ships with primarily only weapons. Then masters of destruction should be the way to go.



However if your going to be making ships that have a lot more defense modules than weapon modules at least in the 6 defence : 4 weapons ratio than i think militarists is the way to go.

That's a good way of looking at it.



I think I might go for militaristic then, as overall production cost reduction is better for my current play style



Thanks.

Militarists definitely. Cheaper colony ships are a must.