Who can wipe out a colony the fastest?

Novalith can take out a colony in one shot, does something like 3500 damage unmitigated. As for a ship, on an asteroid (1000 HP) Marza with Raze Planet lvl 3 would do it fastest I believe, thou Evacuater might be a bit faster, but needs lvl 6. It's pretty close anyhow between the 2. Built up planets, you might need hysteria or 2 Novaliths to get it down fast.

Astax has it right. Novaliths are a late game tech, though. If you're looking for something you can get in a hurry, Marza dreadnought with Raze Planet is pretty effective.

In addition to the Novalith, Advent can use their supercanon to drop a world with low allegiance to 0, effectively killing it. It has been months since I experimented with it, but I played a game a long time ago where I used multiple cannon blasts on higher allegiance worlds, and got them to hit 0. I haven't experimented with this in ages, so I don't really have any useful advice as far as how much allegiance one canon blast can shift, but I know it is possible.


As far as ships go, the three best for smoking a planet are:

Advent Revelation @ level 6 w/ Provoke Hysteria
Vasari Evacuator @ level 6 w/ Drain Planet
TEC Marza w/ 3 levels of Raze Planet
Vasari Desolator w/ 3 levels of Deploy Siege Platform


The Evacuator has a long cool down for Drain Planet...but does about 1350 in one use, so it will just about smoke an un-upgraded planet, then finish it off in 30 seconds or so of additional bombardment. I don't play Advent much, but the Revelation does a huge chunk of damage as well, and I don't remember the cool down being as large.

The Marza special ability doesn't do as much damage in one burst, but it cycles fairly quickly. It chews up planets and spits em out pretty fast. The Marza might be fastest at upgraded worlds. It would be interesting to time it versus a Revelation.

The Desolator is not quite as flashy as the above ships, lacking any sort of burst damage, but it isn't a slouch in the planet melting department either. The Siege Platforms provide a steady damage increase.

Few things:

1. In order to destroy fully upgraded worlds, you have to use two Novaliths at once or the world will heal before the second shot. Does 3000 damage I think.
2. Advent Deliverance Engine takes forever and needs a lot of shots to bring allegiance down since allegiance rate of change has a cap.
3. Deploy Siege Platform is great since it both adds targets and can continue to cause damage/prevent healing if the Desolator is needed elsewhere.