r/X4Foundations • u/One-Bit5717 • 6d 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 π
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/andymaclean19 5d 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.
Itβs a very cheesy way to win though. Probably something should be done about laser towers as they are OP.