Galactic Conquest for Dummies

[TesseractToxx]

Is there a guide to strategy for Galactic Conquest for dummies? It seems like as soon as I get a large enough fleet to take over my first system the Rebels come with a huge fleet and destroy everything. I'm a total noob and would appreciate any help.

[Hearts Of Iron]

Choke points, pause the game as soon as it starts and learn your strategic points. Once you do that, it becomes simple as pie. If you are a total beginner, then say encircle yourself in a group of systems that cannot be broken through without taken those entry way planets. Build up your forces and work outward.

[CHE]

Hovering your mouse over a unit, you can see what units that unit is strong and weak against. I suggest you do this regularly until you are quite familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of each unit type.

[armzngunz]

Build alot of mines and use heroes to take planets in the beginning before the AI gets too strong. Especially important destroying consortium

[TesseractToxx]

Thanks for the tips. I'll haven't really been using heroes much so I'll give that a try and that's a good idea about the choke points

[armzngunz]

The thing I do is: I have maybe 3 planets like Coruscant, Byss, maybe carida and build all the land buildings so I can make every unit on them. Every other planet gets barracks and a light factory (maybe a few gets heavy factories too). Every other land building should be mines. The outermost planets should get turbolaser towers on land first, then as you get more money you slowly build turbolasers on every planet. Then I fully build the spacestations on kuat and/or fondor (they build capital ships) while other planets like corellia and coruscant can have smaller ones for supprot ships. so now you just use those to build ships while the AI suicides on the ground on a few planets, should be easy defending against enemy land invasions when you have turbolasers, just remember when the battle is going to build alot of smaller turrets too using your troops.

For rebels I do basically the same thing, where hypori/fondor and mon calamari build my best ships.

[CHE]

Originally posted by armzngunz:

The thing I do is: I have maybe 3 planets like Coruscant, Byss, maybe carida and build all the land buildings so I can make every unit on them. Every other planet gets barracks and a light factory (maybe a few gets heavy factories too). Every other land building should be mines. The outermost planets should get turbolaser towers on land first, then as you get more money you slowly build turbolasers on every planet. Then I fully build the spacestations on kuat and/or fondor (they build capital ships) while other planets like corellia and coruscant can have smaller ones for supprot ships. so now you just use those to build ships while the AI suicides on the ground on a few planets, should be easy defending against enemy land invasions when you have turbolasers, just remember when the battle is going to build alot of smaller turrets too using your troops.

For rebels I do basically the same thing, where hypori/fondor and mon calamari build my best ships.

I have found Shield Generators and Ion Cannons to be useful sometimes, too.

[PhailRaptor]

Originally posted by armzngunz:

Then I fully build the spacestations on kuat and/or fondor (they build capital ships) while other planets like corellia and coruscant can have smaller ones for supprot ships.

So... outside of early game, this isn't a very good idea.

Once you reach a certain Credit income, there's no reason why every planet should have anything other than a maxed out space station. Especially if you make use of Auto-Resolve, because the player AI... well, leaves some to be desired. You will find yourself losing a "barrier" system, and now the enemy is pushing their fleet through your level 2 and 3 space stations all across that section of your territory and you have nothing there to stop them.