u/cloudsfallen

This is my first time playing, sorry if I’m being stupid. So, I’m at year 2466, playing as the default human empire and am in a federation with a ‘Democratic Crusaders’ empire. I don’t know what they did, but for some reason the ‘Enigmatic Observers’ fallen empire hates them. They declared war on my ally, which pulled me into the war, which pulled all of our vassals into the war, and now every empire except one is fighting them

The issue is, we’re losing. They have this 400k power fleet which none of us can stop (I could *maybe* stop them with all of my fleets together, but I need some fleets to stall the Unbidden, and my fleet size is too small to combine them all into one). The fallen empire controls about half the galaxy, and fighting us is distracting them from attacking the Unbidden (which they promised to do). My ally just will not admit defeat, despite having no fleet and 3 remaining planets. Is there any way to tell them to give up?

I feel like whenever I make a world with a lot of kingdoms, there’s always one that learns how to make bows really early and ends up with armies just full of archers, then just becomes completely unkillable due to the sheer amount of range spam. Bows do pretty high damage, can shoot accurately over mountains and have pretty fast fire rate. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a melee-only kingdom win a fight against one with bows unless they’re massively outnumbered. Melee units just don’t have a good way of dealing with them — no shields to block incoming arrows, no way of taking cover, and if the terrain forces them to group up they’ll just get knocked back constantly

Is this just my experience or a universal thing?