Why does the AI doomstack?

[Lucius Confucius]

I'm playing on the easiest difficulties because I am a forever noob and the AI doomstacking is making things hard for me since I like to spread out my fleets after invading a territory, bombing various planets.

So, is there any way to disable AI doomstacks? It'd be more fun if the AI attacked on various flanks with various fleets.

[Synopse]

You could use console command "invincible", and do how you like ignoring the doomstacks.

[Lucius Confucius]

Nah, I don't like to cheat. Easy difficulty allows me to play a little how I like, but straight up invincibility wouldn't offer satisfying gameplay.

[Mazey]

If the enemy is doomstacking, then go around them and attack their systems while their fleets aren't there.

[Twelve-Oh-One Alarm]

The strategy I end up employing in every game is either
1. Don't get into a war in the first place
2. Strenghten your chokepoints so hard that nobody can afford to invade you
3. If I have to, then doomstack their doomstack with cheese loadouts. Find out where they're building doomstacks from, take those systems, and then go bomb their planets with a detachment from your doomstack while your doomstack is holding the systems they build ships from.

The AI doomstacks because it works great in Stellaris logic.

[Lucius Confucius]

Originally posted by Mazey:

If the enemy is doomstacking, then go around them and attack their systems while their fleets aren't there.

But then they will be doing to same to my systems while I'm not there.

I found one way to deal with doomstacks. I hide in a system behind a bastion, then when they attack the bastion, I attack them with my own hidden doomstack.

[Mazey]

Originally posted by Lucius Confucius:

Originally posted by Mazey:

If the enemy is doomstacking, then go around them and attack their systems while their fleets aren't there.

But then they will be doing to same to my systems while I'm not there.

I found one way to deal with doomstacks. I hide in a system behind a bastion, then when they attack the bastion, I attack them with my own hidden doomstack.

That also works.

[EleventhStar]

nothing you can really do about doomstacks (aside from some positional stuff nobody has the time/patience for if you aren't tryharding.)

beat up their doomstack first, then you can divide and conquer.


spreading out fleets is a cool concept but PDX seems to have given up on making it happen a few years ago.