skull military power?

[rubbermann1]

does a skull mean like 50k power or 100k power or is just there to say as of current theres no way to beat this thing

its a leviathan btw

[Cerebral Daemon]

Skull = Boss = Unknown power level.

If you want an actual estimation, let us know which leviathan we're talking about here and we can tell you around how much firepower will be required to take it down.

[rubbermann1]

its the ether drake

[familysandbox]

about 20k of high armor piercing weaponry should be enough.

[Exarch_Alpha]

Which are the most powerful leviathans nowadays? Enigmatic Fortress?

[Briggs]

Originally posted by Exarch_Alpha:

Which are the most powerful leviathans nowadays? Enigmatic Fortress?

Sounds right.

[rubbermann1]

what do i gain from killing the ether drake?

[Briggs]

Originally posted by rubbermann1:

what do i gain from killing the ether drake?

A nice planet (to mine) and T6 armor.

edit: And the admiral gets a talent.

[Professor H. Farnsworth]

Most, if not all, Leviathans only require a 25k fleet equipped with Plasma.. More Plasma and lots of Plasma.. Add some kinetic/missiles to the mix if they possess a shield (some do).

You always get:
- Dragonslayer Trait - 10% fire rate & weapons damage to the captain doing the kill (get a young one).
- Dragon Slayer Monument - 15 Unity. Empire-unique.

IF it is inside your sphere of influence you always get:
- Dragon Hoard a 30+ mineral world

Random Chance from Dragon Hoard: Should be noted that you may never get any of these events, you may get both or only one during your playthrough. It is -entirely- random.
- T6 Armor event
- Dragon Egg you can hatch for a Drakeling event (this fellow rivals a 40k fleet, comes with jump drive and some bad ass weapons)
- Personally I only ever seem to get the Dragon Egg so... Yeah, good luck with rng'ing those scales :).

[Sirbbuts]

time to give the rouge moon a poke

[RawCode]

on GA you need over 70K to deal with "bosses" without any major losses.

[NixBoxDone]

RawCode is making a good point here. For anything that has a skull, the same adage goes: the more you use, the less you lose.
Leviathans usually have an X class weapon that can one-shot battleships, so be prepared to eat some losses no matter what you do unless you're willing to build a full fleet of torp corvettes to throw at the critter.
If you're tight on alloys, consider contacting the curators and bribing them to tell you about the mysteries of the universe - especially the mysterious spots best suitable to blow holes into to kill the leviathan of your choice.
You might also want to blow some credits on marauders to eat the first volley of fire for you and add some extra pew pew. So long as you retreat them before the last ship dies, the fleet will be available for hire again at full strength after you dismiss it so there's really no reason not to if you're flush in energy.
Last but not least there's strategic resource edicts to boost your energy/kinetic weapon damage.
Costs a bundle, but if you've got a large stockpile and alloys aren't cheap at that time in the game then it may be worth it.

[rubbermann1]

......This is 4 years old!!! how did you people even find this post?!

[NixBoxDone]

Oh my lord. I never even thought to check the date, lol. In my defense, the thread was on page 1 so at least I didn't bump it from the stone age. :D
Is it me or should there just be a feature for steam forums that locks a topic that's older than 6 months if the admins enable it?

[Dark Sun Gwyndolin]

Originally posted by NixBoxDone:

Oh my lord. I never even thought to check the date, lol. In my defense, the thread was on page 1 so at least I didn't bump it from the stone age. :D
Is it me or should there just be a feature for steam forums that locks a topic that's older than 6 months if the admins enable it?

I would much rather have repeat topics created every few months than have to deal with some bozo doing his best Necrophage impression.

[Donovzan]

What about the behemoth planetcraft from gigastructure mod