This was helpful. I still don't understand though, that in a system with 2 colonised planets (owned by me) one produces a big food surplus and exports outside this system, while my second planet there experiences food shortages. There is no pirate Luddite activity.

I really liked the dragonfire on the large missile slot on an odyssey and either the medium one or another DEM in the same side medium missile as well. If you're in close you can use the ship's shield to protect the munition while charges up to fire, and then back it up with all the normal left side Odyssey fun toys.

Just came here to say your guides have helped me so much as a new player! And this little ship SLAPS, stack up like 20 of em and watch the fireworks🫡👍

Would be nice to have some text on the item with some stats

SC should have a multiplayer arena mode

Pirate colossus with shield shunt and bulkheads and integrated point defense ai slaps. Basically just an indestructible and cheaply maintained carrier. You can deploy like 20 of them at once. As far as i know, its the highest ratio of durability to deployment cost out of any loadout. Even more than the invictus dreadnaught

new missiles? I think they are around for quite a long time now

the episode being on the shorter side would be ok .. but there never came a Breaking the Rules - Route 105

41:30 and just to point that out ... shut off your afterburner too it SIGNIFICANTLY increases your signature

8:40 or you sneak in without transmitter on

high scatter amp is for close range brwaling ships ... especially when they already use safety overrides and or other mods which diminish range above x

I always look over ships that primarily use missles because i’m always scared of running out. But now: seeing the cost effectiveness of these little guys I am tempted to give it a fair shot

Glad to see another upload Grump, hope you're doing good and we get more content soon :)

very good overview of the basics!

Ha, great video about a ship that I would normally pass over. I'm doing a "Malcolm in the Midline" midline-only playthrough right now, so I may have to look at removing one of my cruisers to make room for a handful of these little guys!

Wolfpack Tactics only works on ships whith Officers. And you dont use Officers in your Demonstration.

Your videos helped me so much back when I was a newbie to this game. And even later when a new patch makes some colony crisis thing difficult, your video again helped. I might go try this kind of fleet against the Xhan mod baddie in the corner after it beat up my regular fleet a couple of times.

Can you review the new weapons and/or ships?

Great video Grumpy!

It's rare to see enemy Vigilances alive in the battlefield to remember them. 😅

Holy shit I did not realize how good the dragon fire is. I didn't even know about it just cause I haven't seen it yet. Great video!

very cool. Ty

Wow. I'm sold. Fantastic showcase. Please do many more of these! <3

That fight was wild. I feel like sometimes I lose my capital ship I'm flying to AI fleets randomly only to find out they have BS like this. Had deja vu when that onslaught blew up and not in a good way. Surrounding stuff is so powerful in this game.

More ship showcases would be awesome

This video was long over due. Here is the small but mighty vigilance, a great addition to any fleet. Wolfpack Tactics ONLY works on piloted ships. No bonus damage if empty. I did try an all DragonFire fleet, but the issue is you run out of missiles quickly, so prolonged engagements are off the table. You can potentially mitigate this by bringing 30 vigilances to the fight.

Forgot what this man just say Reapear torpedo gremlin

Sunder is my go-to destroyer. Give it a HIL & any two long range, medium-size beams... Plus the usual aux. thrusters and range extenders... max out on vents. It is unbelievably good for a destroyer, and is possibly one of the best out there. You are bringing so much power to bear, for so little cost, AND you can get them early-game. Just one of these can knock out pirate carriers and light cruisers like the falcon, and win you some big bounties. A small group of them will put the hurt on anything bigger. I haven't played with safety overrides on these, but I don't see much of a need.

I was also an enforcer hater, until my gf, a _brand-new_ Starsector player, randomly slapped 4 assault chainguns and safety overrides on an enforcer that she picked up for cheap, without even reading what anything does. She did not even read the quest texts, she just went straight into bounty hunting. Mother of God... It really just works.

Hope all is well! Big much gracias to your support of this game!

any tips for fighting remnant fleet with full piloting build?

You make it look so easy! I've been getting better though and Aurora safety overrides is a hell of a drug ty for that one. Loved your tierlists back in the day any chance you'll talk about the new weapons/ships?

you use my fav character profile pic!!

wb homie. that's solid

are you going to make a playthrough anytime soon?

The (semi) return of the king!

This man still updating these. THE GOAT.

Re-remade this video because the last one was a little yappy. Hope you enjoy this succinct guide. Also enjoy the magic trick of me turning a lasher into a hammerhead (3:17)

When would you use defensive targeting array? I find it's generally not a good idea to have carriers at the front of the lines

Hi mate. I would love some suggested builds, pitfalls etc. from you.

I learned about Anchor ships recently. What I can't learn/figure out, is how to have my smaller ships/frigates to retreat towards it when they need to recover/relief before going out and chasing again. The smaller ships just seem to go around to the left/right edges, gets isolated then explodes because it did not retreat towards my anchor ship.

The invincible monitor showcased at 45:00 isn't possible anymore since Safety overide became incompatible with built in flux shunt. I tried with every mod to up the defence and flux vent but it just gets deleted by most cruisers now.

No, the Griffin with 2 Large Missle, 3 Medium Missle and Small Missles would be completely overpowered! With the missle hull mod and the skill I would go for Griffin only fleets.

The Eagle is the weirdest ship to build, maybe it should be changed

Aren't there "drone" type fighters that don't require crew? Iirc they have lower replenish rates (but a hullmod exists, factory something-something, that helps mitigate that)

My favourite thing to do with this ship is using the plasma jets to bully ships with front shields, pushing them around to lodge myself in their rear and demolishing their thruster area. It feels overwhelmingly strong

Systems expertise is great on an astral. Full bomb runs, system, and do it again. With flash bombers it's lethar.

Grumpyyy!! Man I loved the tierlists back in the day. It's exciting to see you cover Starsector again :))

I just started this game recently, these guides are great, thank you!