Automated Dreadnought

[Konfuchie]

I read somewhere that you need 12K fleet power to defeat this monster. But it is 2 years plus old information.

Automated dreadnought killed 2 of mine (15K+15K) fleets.

I reloaded the autosave but I wonder what is needed to kill it. It has 2 nice planets in the same system that I would like to colonize asap.

[Lich King]

You should try torp corvettes or if in beta, frigate spam. Bring some fodder with you, too, it had big guns but ♥♥♥♥ tracking and will overkill small ships

[jacobellinger]

it's been buffed. you'll need about 25k and make your fleet consist of corvets with high evasion and auto-cannons.

[Sputnik]

The Dreadnought seems to hit hard, but infrequently, Try a large cloud of corvettes with advanced afterburners for their high evasion. Combine these with some larger ships with good kinetic weapons.

Hopefully your corvette swarm will cop most of the fire - and it will take a long time for the Dreadnought to get through them all. Meanwhile your heavy hitters can take out its shields, allowing your little pests to get in there and sting it to death.

[greatswizard]

I like to usaully wait until I can unlock the juggernaughts before going after the leviathans

[pete3great]

Originally posted by greatswizard:

I like to usaully wait until I can unlock the juggernaughts before going after the leviathans

That is way too late in the game. They can be conquered late-early, or early-mid game. That is, in 3.5 and before. I haven't played the beta patch, so I'm not sure how the combat changes are going to shake up killing leviathans.

[bunies]

35-40k in battleships usually seems to do it with minimal losses, probably possible earlier but is it worth risking all your ships