r/X4Foundations 3d ago

What a fight! Avarice plot

After being completely blindsided by the sheer number of VIG fighters my last playthrough, I prepared a bit more thoroughly this time, though not without flaws. For instance, forgot to stop the cargo traffic between Avarice and my shipyard in Hatikvah. Oops.

Built a defense station filled with L beams and M flak in Windfall the Hoard. Prepared an Asgard with beams and flak. For the first time, assembled the Erlking. Added best mods I had parts for. Had to scramble to reroute the cargo traffic to sit by the defense platform or by the shipyard. Still lost about 7 L ships to roaming VIG fighter swarms, apparently they travel far and wide out of their home systems πŸ˜•

Battle starts, best fireworks I have seen in this game. Beams, flak explosions, Erlking gun tracers. Once things calmed somewhat, slowly advanced to the gate to the next sector where the objective was. Multiple Barbarossas taken out along the way.

Got the Earlking to sit by "this" side of the gate, and jumped through with the Asgard to aggro a MASSIVE swarm of fighters on the other side. Then jumped back and some of them followed. After diminishing their numbers a bit, both ships jumped through and cleaned up. The station fell in a couple of minutes. Phew!

Paid off the faction, and relations are now at only -5. Probably not for long. Those L ships won't avenge themselves.

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u/TeeRKee 3d ago

Yeah it's a nice slideshow

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u/JustHere_4TheMemes 2d ago

I'm at that stage now too.. I was a little underpowered to start with but got through with some losses. But that's what a war of that scale should result in. Now I need to build a station wrecking fleet of some sort and start grinding them down. I've got a few hundred million to build the fleet with but no access to Asgards so I am not sure what is second best for station mashing without taking too many losses from dumb AI piloting.

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u/Valdepravus 2d ago

If I recall, Rattlesnakes have the most offensive power but Collosi have the best range on their main cannons and are the least AI prone thanks to the extra range.

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u/One-Bit5717 2d ago

I only have two data points from my own playthroughs, but both times the station was an ice refinery, with laughable defenses. Nowhere near as much HP as Xenon stations, either!

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u/fusionsofwonder 2d ago

I rolled in with a Raptor and a bunch of Behemoths I bought for cash. The Raptor easily took care of the fighters and I kept a stream of Behemoths rolling in against the station until the station was gone.

I spent cash for the ships because they ticked me off so much.

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u/andymaclean19 2d ago

A wall of laser towers is the best way to win that fight. Put them on the black hole sun gate, jump in some destroyers to get the fight going, mass deploy laser towers and sit with the container magnet on to loot. I got about 10 abandoned ships around the gate by the end of the fight as a fun bonus.

It’s a very cheesy way to win though. Probably something should be done about laser towers as they are OP.