u/Key_Olive_7374

I'm on 2036, veteran accelerated campaigns on a light solar system playing as the resistance. Earth is well in hand with the AA basically powerless against my army. I'm at total war with the alien fleets trading well against my fleets a few times but basically incapable of accomplishing my objectives. My biggest hurdle right now is a volatile and rare metal bottleneck and the time it takes to build up enough marines to take their bases in the belt. I'm starting a new run because I feel like progress slowed down too much, but the aliens don't seem to actually be that much of a threat right now, should i jump to brutal?

It seems like the default meta for mid-late game fleet battles is either solid walls of unmoving capital ships with coil guns and a few lasers to take out flankers or mass spamming shaped charge nukes. Neither doctrine requires much though after initial setup and ship design and both seem like they could grow boring pretty fast, so I wonder if we could take some inspiration for the aliens and build some faster battlecruisers dedicated to flanking the main enemy fleet and introducing a larger measure of maneuvering into the human side of the game.

Has anyone tried this? Is it at all feasible? Early fusion reactors obviously constrain this a bit, but I think it could be a fun, if non-meta, build for the game

Hi there, returning to the game after a very, very long time. Doing a normal, accelerated resistance run on the smallest system. I have been on constant red hate for years at this point (2033) and also constantly fighting the AA. However the aliens have refused to do anything besides taking out my lone hab on mercury since I've taken out their first retaliation fleet. They have titans and dreads while my largest ships are battlecruisers, and still they do nothing, should I expect this to change or restart the game on veteran for a better campaign?