Galaxy 5 B24, 32, 33, 34

[RaptorSolutions]

How do you guys build for those? I've cleared Galaxy 5, but it feels like these nodes take an inordinate amount of FR compared to everything else. For some of them I also note that my shield killers just die off and it's my armor killers, i.e. cruisers remaining to tackle their shielded units.
Wondering if I'm doing something wrong.
For the light units I took frigate at the first starter node and fighters at the ending one. I also took the 1 cruiser on the way but since I don't seem to need a 3rd one after killing the boss I didn't go for it.

[phenir]

Just gonna take a lot of resources no matter what considering how many enemies there are. Makes sense to me since it's the path to 3/4ths the artifacts available on the map.

Assuming high ship stats, not necessarily max. 1 fighter and 1 corvette built.
b24 (54 resources at max stats): 2 armored cruisers one in 2,1 one in 2,4 (x,y)
anti armor fighter at 1,1
armored missile frigate at 1,2
sniper corvette at 1,4

32 (63 resources): armored cruiser at 2,2 and 2,4
frigate at 2,1
fighter at 2,3
sniper corvettes at 1,2 and 1,4

33 (66 resources): armored cruiser at 2,2 and 2,4
sniper corvettes at 1,1 and 1,2
fighters at 1,4 and 1,5
armored missile frigate at 2,5

34 (63 resources): armored cruiser at 2,2 and 2,4
anti armor fighters at 1,1 and 1,2
armored missile frigate at 2,1
sniper corvette at 2,5

[RaptorSolutions]

I see. So you're going for corvettes instead of frigates then. I'll test it out on my next run, thanks.
I've maxed ship stats now not counting the starter one that uses FR to upgrade.

Edit: Comparing to my current stats. B24 and 34 saves a little bit, 2-3 or something while 32 and 33 has significant savings. Like 5-10 or so.
Still not enough to get the final artifact lol. I'm at 118 max sector.

Edit2: Actually while we're at it. What's your resource used at B35 the boss? I didn't ask because it seemed simple enough, but I'm wondering if I can improve it significantly.
I use 52.58 for the record. If you can get 5 or more less FR used then I'm interested. If it's less, then if you have the time but otherwise it's no big deal.

[varange]

Originally posted by RaptorSolutions:

I see. So you're going for corvettes instead of frigates then. I'll test it out on my next run, thanks.
I've maxed ship stats now not counting the starter one that uses FR to upgrade.

Edit: Comparing to my current stats. B24 and 34 saves a little bit, 2-3 or something while 32 and 33 has significant savings. Like 5-10 or so.
Still not enough to get the final artifact lol. I'm at 118 max sector.

Edit2: Actually while we're at it. What's your resource used at B35 the boss? I didn't ask because it seemed simple enough, but I'm wondering if I can improve it significantly.
I use 52.58 for the record. If you can get 5 or more less FR used then I'm interested. If it's less, then if you have the time but otherwise it's no big deal.

Can't check what was the setup, but it shows me 42.09 used. I think it was 2 cruiser with armor and armor piercing fighter. All it leaned toward the armored enemies to focus on them. Everything with max or nearly max upgrade.

[RaptorSolutions]

Originally posted by varange:

Originally posted by RaptorSolutions:

I see. So you're going for corvettes instead of frigates then. I'll test it out on my next run, thanks.
I've maxed ship stats now not counting the starter one that uses FR to upgrade.

Edit: Comparing to my current stats. B24 and 34 saves a little bit, 2-3 or something while 32 and 33 has significant savings. Like 5-10 or so.
Still not enough to get the final artifact lol. I'm at 118 max sector.

Edit2: Actually while we're at it. What's your resource used at B35 the boss? I didn't ask because it seemed simple enough, but I'm wondering if I can improve it significantly.
I use 52.58 for the record. If you can get 5 or more less FR used then I'm interested. If it's less, then if you have the time but otherwise it's no big deal.

Can't check what was the setup, but it shows me 42.09 used. I think it was 2 cruiser with armor and armor piercing fighter. All it leaned toward the armored enemies to focus on them. Everything with max or nearly max upgrade.

Whew. 10 saved.
My next run should be in a couple hours, I'll give it a shot. Thanks.

[RaptorSolutions]

Originally posted by phenir:

Assuming high ship stats, not necessarily max. 1 fighter and 1 corvette built.
b24 (54 resources at max stats): 2 armored cruisers one in 2,1 one in 2,4 (x,y)
anti armor fighter at 1,1
armored missile frigate at 1,2
sniper corvette at 1,4

X is obvious, left to right, 1 to 2.
What about Y? Are you going like normal plots where it's down to up? Or as it seems from the enemy disposition it's top to bottom?
But anyway, I've tried this and using my stats, it seems that using front column, from top to bottom: Armored frigate, Armored cruiser, Shielded Sniper corvette, Armored cruiser, Normal fighter is superior.

B32 is profitable with significant improvements.

B33 is worse.

B34 slight improvement but apparently I'm already running the same comp but different locations.

All in all I think I profited off this.

Originally posted by varange:

Can't check what was the setup, but it shows me 42.09 used. I think it was 2 cruiser with armor and armor piercing fighter. All it leaned toward the armored enemies to focus on them. Everything with max or nearly max upgrade.

B35 I think. Worked out, thanks. Needed to put the fighter on top to soak damage iirc. Fighter at bottom means everyone died, it's that close. Or it could have been vice versa.

[phenir]

Originally posted by RaptorSolutions:

Originally posted by phenir:

Assuming high ship stats, not necessarily max. 1 fighter and 1 corvette built.
b24 (54 resources at max stats): 2 armored cruisers one in 2,1 one in 2,4 (x,y)
anti armor fighter at 1,1
armored missile frigate at 1,2
sniper corvette at 1,4

X is obvious, left to right, 1 to 2.
What about Y? Are you going like normal plots where it's down to up? Or as it seems from the enemy disposition it's top to bottom?

Top to bottom, my bad.
If you're still lacking resources I recommend running the auto improve on earlier nodes. It's not quite as good as manually running nodes but can still help. It only tries removing ships but it should shave off some resources from them, if not from removing ships then just from rerunning them with better stats.

[RaptorSolutions]

Originally posted by phenir:

Originally posted by RaptorSolutions:

X is obvious, left to right, 1 to 2.
What about Y? Are you going like normal plots where it's down to up? Or as it seems from the enemy disposition it's top to bottom?

Top to bottom, my bad.
If you're still lacking resources I recommend running the auto improve on earlier nodes. It's not quite as good as manually running nodes but can still help. It only tries removing ships but it should shave off some resources from them, if not from removing ships then just from rerunning them with better stats.

I'm running manually actually. And afaict I'm already at max ship stats baring the one where you pour FR into.
Though mostly I can't really judge if I'm running optimally, but I'm probably not going to gain enough from there anyway, I think I'm short of 2-300 FR for the final artifact node. 640 FR for one node is a lot. And I'm already going straight for it without any detours.
Though I'll also note that I start with 1 corvette extra and taking the bottom route, because that's the one I started when I previously started with the frigate and already brought the adaptive node down. But I'm assuming that total FR cost of top vs. bottom route shouldn't be that big of a difference.
Still have the FR nodes I haven't completed yet though. I have two of those nodes around half completed, but the final one is real costly so...
But at this point I should be less than a week to full complete the artifacts.