Awakened Zealots

[Tactical Femboy]

They have roughly 200k fleets, and all of my fleets together can beat a single one of theirs, how can I beat them, I am already a dominion of them and I need mah freedome

[Rogue]

Fallen and Awakened Empires are best fought with battleships using Arc Emitters and Cloud lightning. It does show your fleet power as lower when you refit to it but because FEs and AEs have like 80% of their defences as shields and armour, it's way more effective at killing them than their fleet power would suggest.

Alternatively, AEs do eventually start getting debuffed by a mechanic called decadence and it will be much easier to defeat them then. How quickly they accumulate decadence depends on how much of the galaxy they own.

[Asuzu]

You have to go real hard on your naval and fleet cap.
And then build over cap as long as your energy can tank your undocked fleet.

Spam Battleships...
- Arc Emitters + Cloud Lightning
- Giga cannon + Plasma torps
- Tachyon lance + Kinetic Batteries
- Some other weird combinations, google around

Lock borders with serious 50k Bastions, full of torpedoes
Declare war, let them come and jump them with all you got on top of Bastion

When their main fleet wiped make sure there is no secondary fleet coming, then proceed to educate dirty xenos on their homeworld

[Tactical Femboy]

Originally posted by Asuzu:

You have to go real hard on your naval and fleet cap.
And then build over cap as long as your energy can tank your undocked fleet.

Spam Battleships...
- Arc Emitters + Cloud Lightning
- Giga cannon + Plasma torps
- Tachyon lance + Kinetic Batteries
- Some other weird combinations, google around

Lock borders with serious 50k Bastions, full of torpedoes
Declare war, let them come and jump them with all you got on top of Bastion

When their main fleet wiped make sure there is no secondary fleet coming, then proceed to educate dirty xenos on their homeworld

Somehow I have neither cloud lightning or plasma torps, we can't choose our weapons on bastions anymore sinc ethe update, and they jump straight to my homeworld

[Asuzu]

Originally posted by Manic Spark:

Originally posted by Asuzu:

You have to go real hard on your naval and fleet cap.
And then build over cap as long as your energy can tank your undocked fleet.

Spam Battleships...
- Arc Emitters + Cloud Lightning
- Giga cannon + Plasma torps
- Tachyon lance + Kinetic Batteries
- Some other weird combinations, google around

Lock borders with serious 50k Bastions, full of torpedoes
Declare war, let them come and jump them with all you got on top of Bastion

When their main fleet wiped make sure there is no secondary fleet coming, then proceed to educate dirty xenos on their homeworld

Somehow I have neither cloud lightning or plasma torps, we can't choose our weapons on bastions anymore sinc ethe update, and they jump straight to my homeworld

Wow, that's rough.

Bastion - yeah you can't change baseline weapons, but you can build missile modules.
If you don't research deep into missiles, they come auto-equipped with your best torps. And you can refit your defense modules with torps as well.

The idea here is to torp spam 100% through shields and 50% through armor, both of which FE fleets are packed with. Not many fleets can tackle Bastion like this.

From critical things - have to add defense comp for +50% range, defense-grid supercomp for more defense modules, and more goodies - it will be serious.
Never build huge Ion cannon, its worthless compared to 7 defense modules it replaces.

I guess slap that thing on top of your homeworld, park your fleet somewhere close and fish?

p.s. All of that being said - I usually squash any neighbour FE I see a.s.a.p. around 2300+ so I don't have to deal with the stuff you got into.

[Tactical Femboy]

I had it contained but it awoke and ebery single nearby AI capitulated instantly