Starsector 0.96 Midline Build: Executor / Gryphon / Conquest / Monitor

[@riterforever3516]

I think for the executor build-in a flux distributor is better than the targeting unit and add a stable shield, this may sacrifice some capacity but the flux is more controllable when shield is up.

[@MisterG_Gaming]

It's a good option but I didn't feel like I need more much flux dissipation in the current run; pretty sure It's another subject for a different build. The support Gryphon actually helps to end the fight pretty quickly; the weapon's arc of HVD only hit in a small radius, so you can drop your soft flux. When you fight Radiant at the end, you are not alone, you actually have a team to deal with them. Fighting Radiants is a charm.

[@zuthalsoraniz6764]

Stable shield is imo not that worth it on the Executor. It isn't that high shield upkeep for a capital, and especially you'd only be saving 10 vents worth of flux with it, while costing 15 OP.

[@Leader1623]

your videos are always a vibe. Thanks for the content!

[@MisterG_Gaming]

Thanks, glad you like them :)

[@pedrokiihl856]

1:35 this monitor goin hard 🔥🔥

[@kape2978]

Gonna start working on this fleet in a new save.

[@MisterG_Gaming]

Fun and enjoyable moments 🔥🔥

[@ImJustJass]

The timing!!! I was just about to start a new playthrough

[@MisterG_Gaming]

when you have a moment, share your experience of your gameplay

[@ImJustJass]

@@MisterG_Gaming I came back from this build and instead used 2 pegasi ships each with 4 hydra dem launchers as they do really well at overwhelming enemy shields. I liked the gryphon build too as it helps the conquests provide extra firepower. I also tried a unique executor build which used autopulse lasers and heavy autocannons instead of lasers, it did a really good job at overwhelming enemy ship flux while shields were still up. I wonder if there will be plans for a high tech fleet in the future?

[@MisterG_Gaming]

@@ImJustJass It's harder for me right now. I redid several tests with the Paragon and the result is pretty decent. I have something in mind but nothing ready for the next few days.

[@ImJustJass]

@@MisterG_Gaming try a paragon with gigacannons, rift cascade emitters and kinetic blasters and a steady officer that has energy mastery and ordnance expertise. did pretty well as long as it has support

[@MisterG_Gaming]

@@ImJustJass I've been on this for 2 nights but the best setup I've found is 2 Autopulse lasers, 2 IR Autolances, 2 Heavy Needlers, 2 Rift Cascade Emitters with Expanded Magazines Smod. Steady officer as well.

[@Hardwaregeekx]

Another great build!

[@MisterG_Gaming]

Thanks 🤘

[@SargentGunnery]

Conquest, my beloved!

[@MisterG_Gaming]

I know you will love it 😉

[@cucumberminimum5792]

Nice video! I think the conquest is better with double mjolnir, the sheer dps they do makes them good enough against shield and armour, and they also do emp, so with double mjolnir you dont even need ion beam. Also, hurricane got nerfed yes, but imo they just went from op to really good, and is still worth doing on conquest. Strip off armour really fast and does a lot of hull damage. Another thing is that the s mod bonus of advanced turret gyro is insane: "Increases damage to missiles and fighters by 25%. Increases damage to smaller ships by 5% per size class of difference." I put it on basically all capital ships.

[@MisterG_Gaming]

Thanks! Double Mjolnirs have their pros and cons. If you really need an aggressive role, yes but you will somewhat suffer if you cant support it. It's fun to keep the ship alive when Gauss can actually harrass and does the final blow. For the case of Hurricanes, less damage hurts in 0.96 and with the new AI behavior, for me it's a good alternative if you have enough kinetic. Gyros is great to smod on paper but you probably you have to drop caps and flux just to be able to kill a frigate or destroyer faster; the problem is some smods are more essential (shield, range, caps/flux) in my opinion. What do you think?

[@0x0404]

With monitors you want as much flux venting as possible(which is why you build safety overrides) so flux distributor helps a lot.

[@MisterG_Gaming]

What's your build because I don't see how I can get over the max flux dissipation?

[@0x0404]

Maybe it is out of date but build in flux and drop solar shielding. This was back in .95 when solar shielding was even better and I was using solar shielding on other ships.

[@MisterG_Gaming]

@@0x0404 We have to test but for the moment, they die very rarely. It's really up to your preference

[@Phil_AKA_ThundyUK]

I never thought to leave hardpoints empty really, even the small ones, but I guess they aren't always useful?

[@MisterG_Gaming]

Yeah exactly. It's all about balancing your ships and not try to overflux each time you shoot. Hardpoints are there but they are not always useful for some builds (like Monitor). Small ones are not always essential but you can instead min max your defense with hullmods for example.

[@Toast_King730]

Fantastic video. I'd love to see your best "no-theme" build. Just 100% power gaming.

[@MisterG_Gaming]

After High Tech, I will start something new!

[@Strivingtoknow]

@@MisterG_Gaming Another vote for the ultimate ordo crusher; I wanna grind SP for the minimum possible effort. And for the love of Ludd, don't post it on the forums lol

[@MisterG_Gaming]

@@Strivingtoknow I will post the Paragon probably, but nothing else I promise 🤪

[@Strivingtoknow]

@@MisterG_Gaming I saw the 5-ordo video from Hector, I guess there's no reason to be surprised that it's one of, if not the best. He only does monofleets, tho, so there has to be an improvement. more monitors, lol?

[@MisterG_Gaming]

@@Strivingtoknow I am not sure viewers want to see 4 or 5 Paragons vs 3 Ordos. Hector did a great job tho. I will try to introduce Afflictor, Shade and Radiant. I did test the Nova and I can kill 1v1 Onslaught under 22 seconds with no missiles; Paragon was 36 seconds. Nova is amazing but too much micromanagement on the battlefield. I will retry it later since I have another project 😈💀

[@kermitthefrog1176]

there are not many sights as terrifying as 10+ squalls bombarding something

[@MisterG_Gaming]

Clearly we will never get tired of seeing that; a delight for the eyes.

[@pedrokiihl856]

Monitor Loadout (aKa the chaddiest ship of all 🍷🗿): S-Modded - Hardened Shields, Hardened Subsystems and Shield Conversion - Front Normal - Safety Overrides, Resistant Flux Conduits and Solar Shielding 0 Capacitors and 9 Vents I don't even know what weapons this ship uses and I don't think it matters Conquest Loadout: S-Modded - EMR, Extended Shields, Integrated Targeting Unit Normal - Solar Shielding, Accelerated Shields, ECCM Package, Hardened Shields, Resistant Flux Conduits 47 capacitors and 42 vents 1 Mjolnir Cannon 1 Heavy Mauler 1 Gauss Cannon 1 Hypervelocity Driver 1 Salamander MRM Pod 1 Ion Beam 2 Squall MLRS 2 Devastator Cannons Gryphon Loadout: S-Modded - ECCM Package, Extended Shields and Hardened Shields Normal - Solar Shielding, IPDAI 25 capacitors and 5 vents 1 Dual Flak Cannon 6 Light Dual Machine Guns 1 Squall MLRS 3 Salamanders MRM 2 Salamanders MRM Pods Executor Loadout: S-Modded - Auxiliary Thrusters, EMR, Integrated Target Unit Normal - ECCM Package, Hardened Shields, Flux Distributor, Resistant Flux Conduits 27 Capacitors and 55 Vents 2 High Intensity Lasers 5 Graviton Beams 2 Tactical Lasers 3 Hypervelocity Drivers 1 Ion Beam 2 Squall MLRS 1 Vulcan Cannon

[@MisterG_Gaming]

Gryphon has only 5 LDMG but the rest is 👍 Monitor has build-in flak cannon, prefect to harass without using points.

[@baharirizki4262]

How do you get 3 S mod?

[@NH-ij8dz]

These are a great set of videos. The low tech fleet you made was probably the strongest one I've ever used. It begs the question what's the best fleet you can make with no tech restrictions??

[@MisterG_Gaming]

Seriously, I don't know what to answer. The gameplay has changed to the point of questioning me about the effectiveness of certain ships or combos, like using Glimmers for example. Their new behavior makes them too fragile compared to the old patch. If you have any ideas, I'll take a look.

[@MisterG_Gaming]

The strongest so far, in my opinion, is this midline build.

[@SemperPearce]

How does this fleet cope with maxed out stations? For top tier low tech stations the mines seem to really confuse the AI causing them to unnecessarily expose themselves to taking really dumb damage for me.

[@MisterG_Gaming]

The problem is probably for Conquest because they don't have a 360 shield arc. You can probably resolve the problem by maxing the arc on Conquest or use Centurions PD or Omen as well. Tell me if this is helping.

[@SemperPearce]

@@MisterG_Gaming yeah I saw a lot of exactly the sort of behavior you described with the Conquests but even the Executors were falling prey to it over time. The Conquests aggressively turn their shields towards mines which opens them up to station damage while the Executors occasionally point their tails towards the station to deal with mines (I guess?) It's a bit crazy behavior for sure! I'll mix the fleet up a bit for station combat and see how it goes. Everything else has been easy, so I think it might either be an AI issue or user error 😅

[@MisterG_Gaming]

@@SemperPearce you should have less issue with mines with Gryphons escorting Executors. Otherwise you can replace vulcan for flak or dual flak. It seems overkill but vulcan does a pretty good job.

[@lanetaylor3900]

Maybe a dumb question: How do you keep the gryphons behind your mainline ships? I've got nearly the exact build on my Gryphons (only difference is a mixed Harpoons and Salamanders), and they keep charging in front, both blocking the fire of the big ships, and getting destroyed taking all the fire meant for the Battleship's shields.

[@MisterG_Gaming]

You need a Timid officer. Otherwise you will have this problem. Gryphon must be on escort order.

[@cooldud7071]

I'm running a midline fleet of 1 executor and 11 eagles. It goes a little crazy.

[@MisterG_Gaming]

Meme beam build or it's viable?

[@cooldud7071]

@@MisterG_Gaming I've been farming ordos with it. It IS a beam build. Haven't taken on tesseracts/ziggy with it yet, plan on doing so soon.

[@MisterG_Gaming]

@@cooldud7071 nice! How do you build them?

[@cooldud7071]

@@MisterG_Gaming 2 gravitons, 1 ion, 2 hvds, 1 mauler Executor is your build virbatim but with flak cannons for PD instead of HVDs All my eagles are maxed on vents with hardened shields, ITU, advanced optics, and reinforced bulkheads. Builds may vary slightly depending on d-mods, and they're all unofficered because I went support doctrine + derelict operations since you can cut the DP cost in half with it, I can send out an eagle for 11 dp. If I optimized for d-mods I could easily send out 2-3 more eagles too. My executor is only 28 dp as well. I've got some other ships as well, but they aren't really significant in any fights I do, I'm considering replacing them with more eagles.

[@MisterG_Gaming]

@@cooldud7071 it's easier with DO for sure; really powerful. Thanks for beam idea.

[@neutronc6527]

Having trouble running this against stations, even unescorted ones. Any tips?

[@MisterG_Gaming]

Which stations? If it's with Minefield, Gryphon escorts Conquest and put a flak cannon at the rear of Executor. The AI station will try to aim the rear of Executor, while you have the back cover for Conquest who like to turn its shield on the wrong direction. Otherwise, add convertion front shield on Conquest.

[@MisterG_Gaming]

You can also swap Monitors for Centurions or Omens to cover your ships 🤘

[@MisterG_Gaming]

How goes your playthrough so far? Pretty smooth uh?

[@neutronc6527]

​@@MisterG_Gaming after getting the credits and manuacturing togther to build this fleet pretty much everything else has been a breeze.

[@neutronc6527]

@@MisterG_Gaming Any tips for the nexerelin boss fleet? Thats the only thing im having trouble with at this point.

[@logancopper3385]

How crucial would you say the mercenary officer on the monitor is, Have spent a ridiculous amount of time looking and cant find one with skills that are even close to what I need

[@MisterG_Gaming]

To get a perfect merc, you need to take officer management, train your officer to level 6 with elite skills. Then you swap officer management for another skill. A menu will bring you to consider your last officer as merc for story points. Here is the trick 😈

[@gibrantristanalpharian873]

Great content! Subscribed and looking forward for more. Any plans for a fleet build with a piloted flagship?

[@MisterG_Gaming]

Thanks! Eventually SO Dominator or Odyssey with Afflictors and Omen. Could also be missiles and fighters spam for fun, who knows 😉

[@-NB7979-]

Excellent job, the thing I didn't know was enemies are now less care about Monitor and set their priority in other targets, I never imagine that level of cleverness for AI's target choice. Just one question, is there a reason why you choose Helmsmanship over System Expertise on Executor? I think High Energy Focus is a very good damage boost system and worth to invest on it, rather than just boost the mobility of Executor who is already fast enough.

[@MisterG_Gaming]

Thanks! Mainly because of the maneuverabilty (without using elite point). System expertise is the best choice for DPS but on multi target it's not that great. Another thing is HEF has really short burst compare to the time window of AAF for example.

[@-NB7979-]

​@@MisterG_GamingThanks for the answer, I learned a lot!

[@MOISECRIMI]

👌

[@bubbelgum2556]

how do you roll your officers? theynever come up with the perfect skill set for me

[@MisterG_Gaming]

The skill pool is base on RNG. When your officer is about to level, save your game then do the battle. If the skill you want is not there, reload your game and do the same battle without this officer. Next, let your officer pilots his/her ship on the next battle to level up; your skill pool will be shuffle. I hope it's enough clear :D

[@ImJustJass]

Hands down my favorite fleet build right now. tried your lowtech fleet but it tends to struggle with positioning when the ai begin to surround them.

[@MisterG_Gaming]

Nice 🤘 It is what it is with Low Tech; armor is not always the solution.

[@ImJustJass]

@@MisterG_Gaming yeah learned it the hard way trying your legion build without reality disruptors. It was a big mistake as a radiant is smart enough to use mobility and brilliants are beginning to learn kiting thanks to those plasma jets they have.

[@ihyaakmal5995]

You didn't need to pilot ship? Woooo yeahhh

[@MisterG_Gaming]

Enjoy ez mode 🤪

[@nep8958]

Eventually we'll have a odyssey fleet guide, only for the idea to be thrown in the trash

[@MisterG_Gaming]

the idea is good but surely it will be me who will pilot the ship, not the AI

[@rebeccacarolsimonfamily3002]

1 radiant, 2 legion with shield shunt + 2 devastator with 2 longbow supp with 2 perdition bombers, + 3 scarab, +3 advanced hyperion.. and all you need is click full assault on..then enjoy the show..no need to touch anything lol

[@MisterG_Gaming]

I will test this next, thanks!

[@rebeccacarolsimonfamily3002]

@@MisterG_Gaming can't wait to see your version, after all.. i use almost of your build lol

[@TranQuangHung360]

Let's do about Paragon please

[@MisterG_Gaming]

With the little time I have, I'm still testing the build. As soon as I have something interesting I will make the video.

[@MKP2W]

Tell me you prefer high tech builds without telling me you prefer high tech builds.

[@MisterG_Gaming]

On fun factor, High Tech is the best tho. 🤪

[@piedpiper1172]

I am writing my congressional representatives to request a law that anyone who uploads a video to a platform with audio support without a voice over should be tried and executed. I’m sure your builds are great. Use a microphone.

[@MisterG_Gaming]

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