Game Saves for AI War 6.0 and Ancient Shadows Trailers

[AragonLA]

Hello!

I am TheTrailerDude (or just Kevin), and have been working with Arcen Games for the past year helping to create trailers for their newest titles, and am now diving into the world of AI War. I've been playing as much as possible in the past month to give myself a basic understanding of the game, and have gotten to the point where I don't make fatal mistakes constantly (just pretty occasionally, now). However, there is a ton of late-game material and advanced strategy that I would love to show off in this trailer. Huge battles between enormous fleets, disgustingly crafty AI attacks, insane home-world defense set-ups, even crazier AI home-world defenses... Basically anything that still amazes you after all the time you've spent in the game.

For practical and technical reasons, we will need to capture the footage ourselves, so Chris has suggested that we borrow some savegame files that will put us right before some of these epic moments. If you have any savegames that you think will help please post them here with a quick description of:

• A quick rundown of the situation at the time of the save
• Your current intended strategy (or if it's already under way)
• How did things turn out and were there any cool moments.

We are creating a separate trailer for AI War 6.0 and for Ancient Shadows, so there will be plenty of opportunity. For both trailers we are trying to avoid any (other) expansion material as much as possible. Any footage from save-files we use in the trailer will get a nice little special thanks at the end. We'll be wrapping up the major portion of capturing by Oct. 6th, so we'd like to have any submissions before then (the sooner the better). I'll be back to this thread a bit during this process, and I'll definitely share if there is something in particular that we still need.

Thanks everyone!

[Draco18s]

You're in luck, there's a nice thread a little below yours (convenient link) that has a save (on page 2) that's really late game in a Light of the Spire campaign, so MASSIVE battles are to be had.

[Cinth]

LOL. You trying to melt his PC?

[AragonLA]

Yeah, saw that one and thought running it AND the processor intense capture program may not be the wisest move.

[LaughingThesaurus]

I mean at worst your computer melts, and at best you make a really sick trailer that everybody will flock to. What have you got to lose?
...oh.

[Winge]

I mean at worst your computer melts, and at best you make a really sick trailer that everybody will flock to. What have you got to lose?
...oh.

An opportunity to build a new computer if it works? 

[Draco18s]

LOL. You trying to melt his PC?

*Innocent face*

[keith.lamothe]

LOL. You trying to melt his PC?

*Innocent face*

I assume you know that one thing velociraptors cannot do, is look innocent.

[Draco18s]

I assume you know that one thing velociraptors cannot do, is look innocent.

Of course they can!  And they look devilishly cute doing it!

[Histidine]

I guess the newbie goes first...

This is from my most recent game, just before the end. 7/7 Mine Enthusiast/Turtle; no golems, Fallen Spire or champions.
I've knocked out all core guard posts, and have two Spirecraft Penetrators on each homeworld ready to apply the killing blow.



Destroying the south AI Home Command Station (Tuscany) will release an Avenger, with a small number of ships (a little over 300) to fight it. They'll put up a good fight, but will need to follow it into the next planet over to finish it off.

Destroying the north AI Home Command Station (Zenito) will also release an Avenger... and a thousand Mk V ships as threat. Said ships should make it to the hopelessly underdefended Mendel in a couple of minutes. (You could pull back the surviving ships from Tuscany and rebuild the fleet if you want to make it a less completely one-sided massacre).

I could also post the save from just before the fleet actually leaves to punch out either homeworld, although my strategy in both cases was pretty much "group move fleet blob along path of least resistance".

I'm sure the vets here could come up with something way more cinematic, just putting this out here 

[AragonLA]

Thanks Histidine!

This is exactly what I'm looking for, and reloading the save a few times should give me plenty of great footage. Awesome!

Anyone else?

[Diazo]

I've got one where a small, cloaked fleet makes an attack run on a guard post.

In the Biroadka system you will find my Zenith Sieges taking out a Counter Attack guard post.

Hit 2 to jump to them, they should have their attack queue up but you will have to issue the run away order after their salvo.

Or I suppose you could leave them, there is an enthusiastic response from the AI special forces ships that will enter the system shortly afterward to the tune of about 2,000 ships.

D.

[AragonLA]

Thanks Diazo,

The AI response was certainly.... enthusiastic.