So I'm playing devouring swarm in Stellaris (cause I feel I have enough to balance trying to manage my empire without adding on top of it all the diplomacy aspects) and am thinking of invading my neighbors; the problem is that my chokepoint divides in two, and then each division also splits in two; I plan to capture a number of systems up to my next chokepoint, the only problem is that there are a handful of planets that'll also be there.

One of the things that drives me crazy is that I take my deathstack fleet down one hyperlane only for the enemy's forces to come down the other one; I'd like to just destroy all the starbases (the starter and built up ones) but can the planets build something up behind me while I do all that?

  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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    13 days ago

    Divide your forces into fleets that can clear easy things like starbases and one that can hunt and kill their fleet, then just grind them down. Take systems with like a corvette stack and casually bombard or invade the planets in their wake, while being ready to hop on their main fleet with your doomstack when it shows up.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      13 days ago

      Ah, thanks; I actually never considered that, I usually just build giant armies of the strongest ships I can make and try to barrel through the enemy (I'm....admittedly not so good at strategy games)

  • take_five_seconds [he/him, any]
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    13 days ago

    their planets can only build armies

    as far as that war goes, if you can smash em just smash em a few times. if you can't bait em into a chokepoint.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      13 days ago

      Ah, thanks; I can see the chokepoint I want to build towards and will demolish everything and worry about landing armies after grabbing that chokepoint first; I was worried that planets could still build something behind me to cause issues.

      • take_five_seconds [he/him, any]
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        13 days ago

        nah, planets can be an issue in other ways (necromancer armies are a binch to deal with) but they can't build ships

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    13 days ago

    If they have no strong fleet, just split up your death stack. If they have any strong fleet then the best you can do is focus down their fleets with yours, and have weaker fleets take the territory.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      13 days ago

      Thanks, I read someone else's advice to indeed use a corvette stack to take out small spacebases and will use that to quickly take their systems