Spire Shields

[HellishFiend]

Nice. 

No idea about MkV HK's. I've only ever fought one mkIV, and it destroyed nearly half my spire fleet before I even realized it was there (it was a one planet game).

I shudder to think how many HK's you went against in those exos.

[Solarity]

I shudder to think how many HK's you went against in those exos.

Best not to think about it really.

[Wanderer]

I shudder to think how many HK's you went against in those exos.

Best not to think about it really.

If I remember right, I was getting a dozen and a half or so with a single hub on 10/10 * 8.  Plus all their spireling buddies.

[Solarity]

Yeah, you get 20 or 30 or so, best to have lots and lots of shields to hold them back so your ships can chip away at them, especially for the MKIV's they have a ton of health.  But they never travel on their own, seige towers and implosion arty are a plenty and of course you normally have 40+ golems to deal with at the time too.  The black widows are particuarly nasty as they paralize your fleet ships

[HellishFiend]

Gotta love the scalability of this game. 

[Solarity]

Hmm yeah, the first few exos or waves from building the hubs etc can almost be ignored if you have defence in depth, however I almost ditched my game ofter building the galactic capital. WOW, not to be messed with.  I'm dreading building for the alternate ending....  If there wasnt so many HK's it would be better, or if they weren't immune to so many things, emp for example or nukes for example.  But thats just wishful thinking

[keith.lamothe]

Haha, and a few versions ago HKs used to "cost" about half as much as they do now