So in my attempt to get revenge on the Astro Trains, it looks like I've hit a brick wall. With titanite spikes.
The attached save is right before the first "shipment" hits the homeworld. I took several stabs at it and thought it would be fun to see others
suffer try it as well
You'll have to Utilize Micromanagement (TM)
but you'll die anyway to survive!
The setup is the following:
10/10 Train Master/Train Master, 10/10 Astro Trains, 10/10 Spirecraft Hard
Game time: 49 minutes
Your relevant units:
Fighters mk1
Bombers mk1,2
Impulse Reaction Emitters mk1,2
Frigate mk1 (74/96 built)
Raid mk1 x3
Riot mk1 x4
Cloaker mk1 x2
Spirecraft:
Siege Tower mk1 x5
Implosion Artillery mk1 x8
Ram mk1 x16
Martyr mk2 x3
Jumpship mk1 x1
60 Missile turrets
150k/100k resources
Opposing forces:
two consecutive waves of
(
Hugger-Kisser mk1 x1
Golem x2 (first wave has Armored+Artillery, second has Black Widow + Artillery. Hint: you'll have exactly enough Rams for all of them if you soften the first wave up a bit)
Core Starship x5
Guardians mk5 x10
)
Try to go out in a blaze of glory and inflict maximum damage on the enemy forces! Good luck and have fun
My best result so far was the AI being left with a HK on 34% and all ten Core Starships.