its a great game, both in gameplay and in story and philosophical questions.

@@michaeltrull5788 colony happiness / colony income / population growth skill that grows over time with the help of a character with inspiring presence trait. Espionage would have been great too in the long run.

@@michaeltrull5788 I will dismantle them at some point, I need them for the coming war. Yes the dhayuts are outta control with research and population. All my games look this way. I don’t know why but every game dhayuts are conquering everything. I think I will just remove them from spawning next time, because they are so overpowered.

i don't like area weapons since i usually build short range ships. they might work if the ships keep their distance. But right now , ships will set their stances/engagement range only relative to their target, not the closest enemy , so, at some point you will get in close range, and then you will blow up your own ships. Tractor beams are okish if you have a slot to spend on close range designs, with titan blasters/railguns. Might be good to give up on one PD for a tractor beam.

its kinda hard since i have to fight both the gizurian hive and the dhayuts at the same time becouse they require different counter designs. To counter the hive you either need alot of PDs or your own Carrier fleets, while the dhayuts will chew through your carriers really easy with their battleship fleets. So i have to go middle ground and its working better than i expected.

@@michaeltrull5788 yeah, shakturi created their alliance and took every major player on the map in it except boskarans. I vassalised them but they rebelled.

i usually make 2 or 3 ships equiped with fleet targeting and fleet countermeasures, like a fleet support ship and on it i like to place tractor beams so my titan blasters will do more damage. Becouse the titan blasters do maximum damage in close range. I do not use them on the main dps ships.

@@michaeltrull5788 most of the hive ships got together and attacked my capital a few episodes back and got destroyed. The shakturi just arrived and they declared war in the latest episode at the end. I don’t know which one is the hardest , I think teekans are suffering a bit becouse of how their big weapons face backwards and you can’t use high dps weapons like blasters. But they have other advantages. Also the boskarans don’t usually grow Big economy in the early game and you struggle if you can’t expand.

these are the mods used: 1. Galaxy Chart by Halvance 2. Alternative Soundtrack by Nico Guerrero 3. Anex Realistic System Names by Anex 4. Refreshed Flags by salemonz 5. Refreshed Troop Symbols by salemonz 6. Refreshed Ship Symbols by salemonz 7. Refreshed Components Facilities and Events by salemonz

These mods add so much to DW2 and have made the experience so much better.

@@cuddlebuff yes i agree, its so much easier to distinguish between fleet types and ship types at a glance.