
How do you Defeat this monster?
Continuing my game the previous night and have managed to complete Abyssal Space Oddity mission, collected the Onslaught Mk1 Ancient and have fought the first Threat fleet - (What are those, an AI hivemind... seems to contradict the logic from Stellaris) and proceeded to the Galatia station. But quickly afterwards decided it was worth it , for some reason, to return back through another ''young'' hole and face whatever was heading my way. Upon entry I discovered another baren planet and two seconds an unidentified fleet ramming into mine.
I thought it would be an easy fight since I was undefeated during the whole game and have fought multiple fleets so far. Easy as making a sandwich...
But no, I failed to notice a massive swarm of small ships, five to six medium ones, a big drone swarm one and this monstrosity up in the picture. I lost half of my military ships, six cruisers (those funny pointy ones) two carriers and am prepared to loose more in the hopes of winning an engagement and capturing all the worthy ships, including the ''Beehive'' above.
So what are your strategies when it comes to this? I don't believe most of the players ever had to pay the cost encountering the unstoppable enemy such as the Threat but you can always farm their ships by chance if you don't mind the resource cost. What do you bring into battle and is the cost worth it - by that, I mean, how will it fare against the human factions armament and is it worth the deployment points? Better question is what other ships would be ideal to go, along side the one above, into an engagement?
Thank you in advance!