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Stellaris devouring swarm invasion strategies? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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