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« on: February 07, 2017, 01:56:12 PM »
I was playing in admiral diffuculty as the empire of the hand on the custom GC tap hat comes with the improved Dushkan League mod. It was roughly 50 weeks in and I had expanded mostly north and south because the my brain can't handle all the hyperspace lanes in the core, so the remnant is still alive.
At the moment I had all my forces conquering the north and south and defending choke points, except Bilbringi. There is something strange about the capital shipyards there, they can call in any ship that you can build for super cheep during a battle like reinforcements, just for that battle, and you could phalanxes with this at era one for around 1000 credits, again just in the battle. So I usually leave it undefended because of this.
Then it happened.
A gigantic remnant fleet appeared, around a dozen ISDIIs, two dozen VSDII, who knows how many smaller ships, two Executors, a Soverign, and Palpatine himself. I had Bilbringi fully defended two Visvias and two Brasks, and of course the magical capital shipyard that can produce battlecruisers out of thin air.
The battle started. One of the interesting things about the magical shipyard is that even if you have no ships there, in the reinforcemeets there is one of every ship you produce with the shipyard mid battle. So I started by starting the production of phalanxes and warped in the one I had in reserves behind the enemy line, except it died before the it warped in fully. Then with the phalanxes that followed I warped them behind the defensive stations and prepared for defense. Usually as the hand I have fighter superiority but they brought in so mans star destroyers that is didn't.
Like I said, first came in a huge mix of stuff, a few star destroyers, victories, and lots of smaller ships. It started of well, my ships and stations we taking out ships left and right (because phalanxes are really strong). Then the SSDs came in to the mix.
The first one that was warped in was one the executor, it had killed the four defensive stations I had and most of my phalanxes before I took it out. Then the next executor, this was a little tougher but I had kept produced phalanxes so I had warped some in behind it and made quick work of it. Then Palpatine. The eclipse class dreadnought was a different story, I had warped some phalanxes behind him. Then it hit me, literally. The super laser could shoot directly BEHIND him, I sure got a jump out of that. Then he sniped my shipyard with the laser so I could no longer produce phalanxes. So with the eight phalanxes I had on field. After loosing two more phalanxes I had killed Palpatine. Finally the only thing left was the eclipse, same deal the super laser could shoot backwards, so after loosing three more phalanxes I had finally grinded down all the hard points in the eclipse, therefor ending the failed imperial attack on Bilbringi.
For clarification I could produce phalanxes mid battle from the shipyard like upgrades on any other shipyards.
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