u/zsinjsfadinghairline

48 ABY and we're starting to see the downfall of the Galactic Empire (Eriadu Authority). This was honestly a more dramatic fight than I expected it to be.

https://preview.redd.it/ro1owdtaf1kh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=8b21279f03c1cc52ec4519d754dc86904df97c50

Pulled my attacking fleet back and sent the Bou'Halec fleet instead to handle this problem.

I was genuinely so excited when I saw her appear

Imagine my surprise when I killed those 3 heroes and all of a sudden a black shape enters the battle. So glad I got out before Eclipse activated her gravity well projectors*. Bou'Halec* made short work of Eclipse.

https://preview.redd.it/mvu2tty24mjh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=97f887b746d017b495336328539293935c557cfb

These jokers got cut off at Fondor and were stuck there. I simply helped resolve their predicament by eliminating it entirely.

Not worried about these losses; I have more than enough money and pop cap to rebuild these lost ships several times over.

https://preview.redd.it/4flt2bmqr1jh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=3fa78e1e5a860954a6bd9e4ba28ac035f4a74f77

For context, this is about my ongoing Hutt campaign, which I've made a couple posts about (like here and this moment). I'd kept a spy on Byss in case Palpatine came there. He ended up dying on Bilbringi, and Carnor Jax took over on Byss. As soon as I saw these heroes pop up, I rushed over with my Bou'halec and cleanly ended that regime. I realized I missed getting rid of their ground heroes, but this will suffice.

Daala then took over, and I rushed a fleet over to the Maw. I killed one of her ground heroes (the stormtrooper captain), but Tol Sivron escaped. Pellaeon took over shortly afterwards.

This has been an awful set of setbacks for the Eriadu Authority. They lost Dark Empire in the most humiliating way ever (Palpatine dying from scooter attacks), lost Crimson Empire almost instantly, and then had to deal with Daala giving up as soon as she lost The Maw. Eriadu (the planet) is also completely surrounded by other factions. I'm not sure if Delvardus has his SSD or not, but no one's bothered to attack Eriadu yet.

Bro was killed by bikers 🥀

"Sith Lord"

Another post with the latest updates from my Hutt campaign. After the events in my last post, I went after Pentastar. I drove them off Selaggis, and not long after that I got hit by a 700 pop fleet which took a few battles to defeat.

Note: It is 31 ABY; this started in era 1

https://preview.redd.it/ndwwegh5vkih1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=5e5a0c13fc30fd1fbaae68b04fb101ca6c3bbb71

https://preview.redd.it/x8phinx9vkih1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=007f37ae9b5469daa9f11c174e923772a2ec302b

https://preview.redd.it/7bfrspuavkih1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=f8ef58ea1cac73de32ba7063a2ce8841465fdcef

I basically steamrolled through some Imperial Remnant territory before hitting PA's home sector, where I assassinated Kaine over Entralla.

Bou'Halec for the win

All too easy

I took Entralla and Bastion, leaving PA with only 2 planets left. However, I still didn't get any integration message. It took some time before I realized that PA had a MASSIVE fleet over Yaga Minor, including a Mandator 3. I went right into deal with that particular problem.

RIP smuggler bro who gave me a free interdictor; now I need to spend a pittance to get one

https://preview.redd.it/9193bk2ovkih1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=fcd3bcd7a572e603f85043cf3fde48047f6f2914

Bou'Halec vs. Mandator 3

https://preview.redd.it/ab76k9bqvkih1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=da4cd73d1ea3e6008cb2f057219fd28acfd9a6bd

Nearly lost my whole fleet for this but so worth it

It is now 34 ABY. Pentastar has been integrated by the Eriadu authority, and they have now declared Dark Empire. The Duskhan League is still running around, and they've kept getting close to Hutt space. The Imperial Remnant is leaderless and only holds Coruscant. The New Republic, despite having their capital next to Hutta, has left us untouched. EOTH is still the second most powerful faction in the galaxy, and it seems that they have left Nirauan completely undefended. Oops!

This is genuinely the weirdest campaign I've played.

Going to have more posts from this Hutt campaign I've been running. I've been pushing back the CSA after they wasted an endless sum of credits in trying to wipe me off the map, and I managed to go right into their home territory. Imagine my surprise when I'm greeted with a Mandator 2 at Maryo, the last planet they had in their original part of space. I know it's a rare finding, so this was quite satisfying.

It does make me wonder about how long they've had this ship for, and why they didn't use it earlier.

https://preview.redd.it/3fjvdftmshih1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=5f5aac06921ebc90f123b112497cf4d7ea5b8a7d

What makes this campaign more bizarre is that CSA was almost completely wiped out (they had a couple planets in what was Zsinj's part of space as well), and yet they still managed to get this ready. Maybe I just had to wait long enough before it spawned; it was 29-30 ABY when this battle took place.

My fleet had Darksaber and a bunch of ships with it. So far, Darksaber has survived.

Bou'Halec = instant win button

https://preview.redd.it/lgzq048w17ih1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=697153994e6000289765f28cb1a8f7ca273217b9

https://preview.redd.it/r70447yw17ih1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=a1141c508327e11a7a73092d3c0d2bae013a20af

https://preview.redd.it/suw9e8px17ih1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=b4590d44a707b7acbfa60e17c577f3d5c3d9ace5

This campaign is getting really interesting. It's 26 ABY and now two factions have been integrated (Maldrood in 20 ABY or so, and then Zsinj just now). CSA is on their last legs. Hapans have lost their home territory but are still alive. Thrawn is dead. The Yevetha are in all kinds of random places and EOTH is all over the place.

Imperial Remnant took over Maldrood, and Eriadu took over Zsinj's former holdings. Based on this progress I'm expecting Eriadu to declare Dark Empire.

https://preview.redd.it/s22oeiya27ih1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=c5abade1143e16ceb46add92784cef20fc7405ad

https://preview.redd.it/l7d91adxtghh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=5058cb96c21a374a9ff2e9ac72c54e66b6fb86cd

https://preview.redd.it/9bvr968ytghh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=6eb14b5edf3a21e95ea2283e3dbff4cf14e5a39d

The Imps also brought in 3 ISD's and 2 Tectors. Glad to say that I didn't lose any heroes in this one.

Not sure why, but I didn't get the "With Thrawn's death, the Empire is leaderless" message after killing him.

https://preview.redd.it/ig5mmd8nt7hh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=1612a1d7dec581eadec4d3a7de5e69ea0ea1bc4c

https://preview.redd.it/y062nk4pt7hh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=b41e622a84f6f760b7d28e1927b4a42851ede982

I got the alert that an enemy fleet was coming for Hutta, but I didn't know that the attack was still going on (turns out Verpalion's slow hyperdrive was why). When the Empire hit Hutta, I knew it was going to be bad, but I locked in and focused on defense.

I kept spamming Bootana Hutta ships because I had a feeling that Isard wasn't going to retreat. The Imperials destroyed my defensive stations but for some reason didn't bother with my shipyard. Thanks to all the reinforcements I called in, I finally caused something to change in this campaign.

I'm playing as the Hutts on Full Galaxy (Medium), and it's been a drag of a campaign. We're already at the Black Fleet Crisis and not a single faction has been eliminated. Pestage was running the Empire for a while, then Isard took over and was in charge for even longer. Currently, Hapans are on their way out. Maldrood is almost gone (Kosh is alive somewhere else). Zsinj did go crazy but now he's lost almost all his territory. CSA has been my main enemy lately, so I'm going to focus on them soon.

What a battle, all the same. Quite a shame I lost these heroes.

I don't know what led to this. My guess is that it's a talent show somewhere in Europe (UK, maybe?), and I have a feeling that these guys were not trolling at all.

I've seen this video a few times over the years and it never fails to make me laugh.

I've been kinda thinking about trying out House Tagge (Project Proteus version) as a minor warlords campaign, but I've never been a big fan of the Tagge legitimacy group simply because I've felt the battlecruisers are quite unimpressive.

Are those ships any good? I know that at least for Proteus, they can be paired with other stronger vessels like the torpedo sphere, and in general these larger vessels can still be a pain to fight against in early game.

Started an Eriadu campaign just for fun, and not too long into this campaign I got attacked at Sluis Van by a fairly large NR fleet. The first time this happened, I was able to chase the enemy off since Delvardus and friends (Delvardus was still in an ISD at that time) made it in time. This time, I couldn't get my defensive fleet there in time, and all I had to fend off NR was my garrison, the Validusia type station, and another defensive station.

I was doing a surprisingly good job at holding the line; even managed to kill Ragab just as the Bulwark III and Firmus Nantz made it. However, once those big boys got to the scene, I knew I was cooked, so I hit autoresolve. Somehow even the Bulwark III went down thanks to it! My fleet reached Sluis Van just as this battle ended, and we were able to finish off Nantz since he was all by himself.

Got really lucky with this.

https://preview.redd.it/o0uoswk91aah1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=a8f0f9b8d709b1b4a362c6dc0650bb8026b7b990

My EOTH campaign, for some reason, no longer works (whenever I click on the save file the game immediately crashes). However, I still managed to get a very interesting battle in before things fell apart. Clone Thrawn successfully defeats his progenitor in a short battle over Emberlene!

https://preview.redd.it/mcy5ge7de5ah1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=da813d74908b0b58c5e75fd0f05648f33e63a746

I wish I had a screenshot of the actual battle; it was definitely quite entertaining. I can say that Thraawn was actively involved in this battle.

With Thrawn's death, the Galactic Empire has hit yet another low. They're already close getting wiped off the map; now they're even leaderless. If I'm able to resolve this problem, then I can't wait to finish off this campaign.

Continuing my glorious EOTH campaign since I remembered that wasn't completed yet. Called in clone Thrawn for this, and it was still not an easy fight. Not too happy about losing the gladiators though :(

https://preview.redd.it/uw9w2fkri99h1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=58e3aba5f96cd4f7af985a766c65547d5dccde75

https://preview.redd.it/nvhkmbdsi99h1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=14531a16315f5f331e425aff95dbcfbd56461cb5

The good thing is that I can rebuild almost everything here.

I started my Grunger's Empire campaign a few months ago when I saw that Project Proteus was out. I had played several minor warlords campaigns before (Sector 5, Zero Command, maybe a couple others), but those campaigns never really continued especially because of all the updates that came after 3.5 was released; the save files didn't work. I was really excited to try this one, but it was quite exhausting.

I went with the Known Galaxy Large map (didn't want to bother with EOTH since I already have a campaign as them going on) with an Era 1 start, and in that Grunger starts off with only 1 planet. All I had was a single planet and a dream, and that was all it took to go off and take the whole galaxy for myself.

I don't remember too much since I've had a lot of breaks in this campaign because of other stuff going on, but I do remember that the start was pretty tough. You start off on Ordo, and you basically have to fend off Maldrood, Zsinj, the Hapans, CSA, Empire, and maybe NR. Early on, I got attacked a lot (pretty much all the time at Taris) by Zsinj and the Empire, and I managed to kill a couple Grand Admirals and decapitate 2 factions (IR by killing Thrawn, Zsinj's Empire by killing Zsinj when I chased him way out). The first faction I integrated was Zsinj; although I was not the strongest faction by far, because I did so many missions, my legitimacy was the highest. Maldrood joined me not too long afterwards while I was fending off CSA and PA (PA was a massive pain in every way).

Not long before integrating PA, I rejected Dark Empire and let the Empire stay in the game a little longer. By this time, I think they were also contending with the Duskhan League, so this gives an idea of how slow things were. They would build Eclipse, but not long after they declared DE, somehow Palpatine died again, and thus they became the Ruling Council and I became the Galactic Empire. I immediately pushed towards Pellaeon's regime, and the rest was easy. Ruling Council would be the next faction that I would integrate, and then it would be Eriadu, with old man Sander Delvardus dying rather quickly.

Time to share the final haul of units/heroes that I had right at the end of this campaign. Very poetic that this story starts and ends at Endor.

Ground units above Bakura

My list of space heroes/fleet commanders. The 3 heroes I started with are grunger (4th row, 1st column) and 2 other people whose names I forgot already (2nd row, 2nd column and 2nd row, 3rd column). Cronal was a lucky gift I got from EA

Ground/admin heroes/ground commanders. This campaign didn't start with any ground heroes, so this was a good haul.

The never ending excess of space units. Needs more triangles.

All in all, I do recommend this campaign for anyone who really wants a challenge and to feel the satisfaction of a "rags to riches" story. The start is definitely rough, but you just need to be patient and keep fighting on your terms to win. It is certainly an exhausting campaign, though.

https://preview.redd.it/gn0mt81fbc7h1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3779b3a8681067d8642468124f939c855c8c1d4b

These guys lasted until 35 ABY. I find it funny that they were able to make it for so long despite losing N'Zoth.