Help i cant beat a single war because unfair

[MOITA]

Every single time i start my first war, the enemy is weak, but the other side has plenty of Allies who join and defeat me with quantity of armies.

I just want to play as a solo faction and engage in Wars without a bunch of other empires fighting together agains me. U know, i want somethink like Russia x Ucrain, not like everyone against Hitler

[Unimportant]

Maybe try to fight against someone without vassals, overlord or federation?

[Jx]

On what difficulty do you play ?

[Alt]

Originally posted by Unimportant:

Maybe try to fight against someone without vassals, overlord or federation?

Thing is. After some time everyone becomes either Vassal, Overlord or forms a federation. Thats one of the big problems this game has. But luckily you can offset that by creating custom presets for civilizations.
OP. Create multiple presets for races who do not like to for any form of federation. So more fanatic purifiers (and the likes), more fanatic isolationists(millitry and pacifist). This way you will have a healthy balance of factions who do diplomacy(aggressive and peaceful) and factions who either dont interact with others at all or interact only by killing everything that moves.

I would personally advise you to do that every game. Create your own race presets for AI to use. So that at least half of them are not random in your games. It heavily enriches your experience.

[TheCr33pur]

Next time, try making a new game that has few opponents. I would say, the largest galaxy, make that four and half of that would be two.

Make sure turn off the advance AI start and that powerful specie, forgot which one is disabled. If you want to be able to relax and take on the galaxy, then try that setup i mention above.

Also depending on the difficulties and minor races too. I dont like how they got the war wear you down, whatever they call it. Some species shouldnt be effect by it.

[Dcethe]

Thats the nature of the game man. Only time for 1v1 is early game pre 2250. Afterwards AI teams up with federations, alliances, or through overlord system. Best bet is to play militarist and wage a vassal / tribute war on some of your first aliens encountered.

God help you if your a Determined Exterminator / Hive / Purge nation. You will get ganked and the only way to win is to follow meta's and hide behind starholds, wipe out their fleet, then try to capture as much as you can.

[corisai]

Originally posted by Alt:

Thing is. After some time everyone becomes either Vassal, Overlord or forms a federation. Thats one of the big problems this game has.

And solutions for it - became an Galactic Emperor or use Total War claims.

Originally posted by Alt:

But luckily you can offset that by creating custom presets for civilizations.
OP. Create multiple presets for races who do not like to for any form of federation. So more fanatic purifiers (and the likes), more fanatic isolationists(millitry and pacifist).

Actually this way you will trigger MORE federations and vassals - genocidal empires generate a threat that force neighboors to unite.

[Kapika96]

Originally posted by Moita713:

U know, i want somethink like Russia x Ucrain, not like everyone against Hitler

What's the difference?

All the other countries may not be contributing with their actual armies, but it's still everyone against new hitler, just like it was everyone against old hitler.

[corisai]

Originally posted by Kapika96:

All the other countries may not be contributing with their actual armies, but it's still everyone against new hitler, just like it was everyone against old hitler.

Difference is that more then half of the world is really neutral to this conflict (lol India+China alone is close to be half of the world with their satellites).

[Kalemenos]

Patient, strategic wars is what this game calls for. I'll give an example.

Difficulty level is 3/6, "Captain." I'm currently mid-late game, ready to take out a neighboring federation. It has taken me decades to build the fleets and armies. And in the meantime, carefully managing the planets for a strong economy. Fortunately, I have a friendly empire to the west, and a FE to the east, so that inhibits invasions from the other empires, giving me calm time to build, build, build.

With spies and a Sentry Array, I have figured out how their ships are built, and what their firepower is. There is one leader and there are three followers in this federation.

So I just build 3 armadas, each with four fleets - nothing magical about the number four, it's just that right now that's just what I need. In one, energy weapons and shields predominate, that's for the Leader. Two, energy and armor. Three, kinetic and shields with point-defense, that's for the last two Followers who are smaller and similar in ship build.

Then I will place them strategically just before declaring war, so I can rush in and hit critical points - their gateways. I will watch carefully to see where new ships are being build, and after taking a starbase or two in each empire, I"ll have each armada jump to the starbase making all the ships. Results? They can't build ships, and they can't move them around with gateways. Whoever strikes hardest first, Gandalf once said, may never need to strike again.

Anyway, this is a small example of the kind of strategy this game calls for. Could I have tried to take these empires on in early game before they formed their Federation? Not really, I didn't have the firepower or economy to match them - part of the "Captain" level difficulty. So I plan, build, strategize, and no one can stop me, mwa ha ha...

[Geoff]

Originally posted by Alt:

Originally posted by Unimportant:

Maybe try to fight against someone without vassals, overlord or federation?

Thing is. After some time everyone becomes either Vassal, Overlord or forms a federation. Thats one of the big problems this game has. But luckily you can offset that by creating custom presets for civilizations.
OP. Create multiple presets for races who do not like to for any form of federation. So more fanatic purifiers (and the likes), more fanatic isolationists(millitry and pacifist). This way you will have a healthy balance of factions who do diplomacy(aggressive and peaceful) and factions who either dont interact with others at all or interact only by killing everything that moves.

I would personally advise you to do that every game. Create your own race presets for AI to use. So that at least half of them are not random in your games. It heavily enriches your experience.

This is good advice. Creating your own races is a little counter-intuitive at first. When you start a new game you can detail the race. But instead of actually starting the game, just save the race and go back to the menu. You'll see your race with a little phoenix icon next to it, which means it can now spawn as an AI opponent. If you click that phoenix again, a blue lock appears which means that in every game, one of the random AIs will be replaced by them.

[MOITA]

Originally posted by Jx:

On what difficulty do you play ?

commodore