These are some shots of the one decent battle i have had vs the AI. It was on a 1 star 20 planet map. Myself vs. The Trader Coalition (medium AI). No pirates, High resources. What was that people were saying that the AI doesnt build a massive fleet? Sorry for the UI, but i forgot what hotkeys hide it.


Everything in this game progressed as expected. I had a crystal crisis because i was not blessed with any crystal worlds. In fact i wound up with many dead worlds. By the time the game reached 2 hours control of the map was evenly divided between myself, and the AI. I had garrison fleets at each key chokepoint, and was starting to fortify systems for the inevitable "insurgency". The AI was sending piecemeal forces into my chokepoints which were easily repelled. I had 2 scouts on auto explore, and i almost went into a panic when i saw this.... This is what my scout encountered at Kasuga, and it was obvious the AI was massing for an invasion of one of my chokepoints (the desert world just below it). Needless to say i lost the scout.


I immediately redeployed all of my garrison fleets to mass and ordered another kol, an akkan, and a dunov. All ships made it to the rally point before the AI invasion began.


With the sides slightly in my favor i ordered my fleet to fire at weapon range only, and phase jump for a pre-emptive strike against the AI invasion fleet. The jump went better than expected because my fleet jumped in right on top of the AI light carrier group.


All ships immediately primaried the light carriers.


Between the Kols AA, and my flak frigates the AIs bombers didnt have a prayer. However my fighers, and bombers were all shot down as well by the AI flaks.


The AI had no capitol ships in their battle group, and this was their undoing. It relied on the light carriers for firepower, and once all fighters, and bombers were shot down the carriers became useless. The AI was losing ships at an alarming rate, and the battle swiftly turned into a route.


I decided to let the surviving AI fleet flee the battle, and concentrated on removing all planetary defense structures.


With all resistance removed it was time to bomb this rock into submission.


This was one of the better battles i have had next to the pir8 invasions. It should be noted that after i colonized this world the AI sent in 2 Kol battleships which were easily destroyed. if the Kols were in the Main AI fleet i may have taken much more losses.