6 years in, Cultist Battleship already?!

[Hurkaleez]

On my 6th year in new game and I've killed 2 cultist fleets already. As part of the quest I went to the system next to my home planet and there is a Battleship along with 3 corvettes I'm supposed to destroy!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1647528207
Not sure how to handle it for another 50 years or so.

[Seaghauwn]

check what weapons and armour they have on their ship and make ships that can counter theirs.

[Hurkaleez]

Originally posted by Joey Mousepad:

check what weapons and armour they have on their ship and make ships that can counter theirs.

I'm now 12 years in and have no researched a single combat/ship mod. Will be a minimum year 50 before I can even considder taking that on. Probably more like year 75 or more.

[Kitten Food]

Nah. Cultist quest is super easy. 20 corvettes will wipe out them. Just go full shields and 1 kinetic and 2 lasers. If you can't build that within the first 10 years, then this quest is the least of your problems.

[HugsAndSnuggles]

Technically, it's cruiser (poorly-fit one at that) and it's a starter quest so it's not that hard to deal with; besides, it's nothing compared to, say, titan, that advanced start AIs can now get from the start.

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

The cult fleet has 283 fleet power total. A weak battleship usually has more, much more. A single space amoeba mother has a higher combat rating and is stronger.

[Dakota]

Its a rather weak "battleship" just throwing 10 corvettes of lowest level at it should take it out rather easily.

[Hurkaleez]

OK thanks all, it was late at night and I was too tired to be playing as I should have looked at it closer.

[Lord Eddard Stark]

It's not a real battleship. It has cruiser icons, but really it's like a big destroyer to be honest. Idk why they call it battleship and give it cruiser icons but hey....You can take it though.

[Shahadem]

Originally posted by Kitten Food:

Nah. Cultist quest is super easy. 20 corvettes will wipe out them. Just go full shields and 1 kinetic and 2 lasers. If you can't build that within the first 10 years, then this quest is the least of your problems.

I can't build that within 10 years of starting the game but I always go on to conquer the whole galaxy. So sorry but you are full of bollocks. This quest is clearly excessive.

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Honestly you don't need 20, 6 with a good admiral might be enough, 8-10 is fairly safe especially missile corvettes.
Okay the last time I fought the cultist battleship I sent a few real battleships but that was because they spawned late and I was ahead on tech.

[sortulf]

Think of this as a large freighter vessel that someone threw weapons on and called a battleship. Not really impressive to the admiralty, but it seems to do wonders for the cults morale.

[HugsAndSnuggles]

Originally posted by Shahadem:

Originally posted by Kitten Food:

Nah. Cultist quest is super easy. 20 corvettes will wipe out them. Just go full shields and 1 kinetic and 2 lasers. If you can't build that within the first 10 years, then this quest is the least of your problems.

I can't build that within 10 years of starting the game but I always go on to conquer the whole galaxy. So sorry but you are full of bollocks. This quest is clearly excessive.

More often than not, it's a survival requirement on higher difficuilties. Unless you can come up with a better way to deal with a cpuple 20-corvette fleets ~15 years in.