If a Station is much stronger than the FEs fleet they will never attack them. I left them around 40 stars to expend to and blocked the other Hyperlanes with Citadels with around 300k fleetpower. Xenophile FE, settings as the try before. I’m also happy to answer any questions that you have, so please leave me a message below if you’re still having issues. So I’m hoping this will help you as well. I’ve pieced most of this Information/strategy from various Reddit posts and Paradox forums. If this does happen, pull your fleets out back to within two systems of your bait planet and just wait for him to try again. One or two things will happen, you’ll destroy it and get your achievement. When the Colossus reaches 80% charging, jump all fleets into the system.

Now hopefully you’ve stationed your Fleets within two Systems of the colony that’s been targeted. If it is there’s a high chance that it’s preparing to fire on it. When you see that it’s on the move, pause and check the status of it to see if it’s moving to ‘xyz system’ where your ‘Bait Colony’ is. If it doesn’t it might be worth building multiple along their border (if possible) and waiting to see what one it takes to. When they eventually build it, it will hopefully take an interest to your ‘bait colony’ that we colonised earlier. Wait the 10 years and declare war on them again to restart the process. Sometimes the War will ‘Status Quo’ before they build it and you’ll think you’ve lost your chance, but you just need to be patient. The tricky part however is waiting for them to actually build their own Colossus. Make sure to activate the Edicts that grant you a bonus of 25% damage to Energy Weapons and the others for 25% Armour and Shields respectively. Once the Holy Guardians have awakened, let their initial fleets come to you, in your territory, and pick them off. Roughly 80% Armour and 20% Shields and the two Aux slots with Shield Capacitors. I fitted my Battleships, and Titans, with Focused Arc Emitters and Phase Disruptors. Ideally you’ll need a fleet strength of 300k+, to be safe, although if you’re playing on the lowest difficulty you might not need as much as that.

There’s usually one or two outside their borders (Pristine Jewel, Prophet’s Retreat, Emerald Mausoleum etc.) When we ‘crack’ their World open, they will awaken, and their fleet will triple in size from their two stacks of 80-90k. Also don’t forget to build armies on the surface, around 10k should be sufficient.ĭon’t start building your fleets until you’ve built a Colossus and are fully ready to ‘crack’ their Holy World.

Find a planet to colonise on the very edge of their borders and build it up with Stronghold’s and a Planetary Shield. When this is done, start expanding to their borders and ‘box them in’ (if possible). I’d start by playing tall until you’ve got all of the techs needed and as many repeatable’s as you so desire. The Holy Guardians are the ones that you’d ideally want, as you can ‘upstart awaken’ them by planet cracking one of their Holy Worlds, with a Colossus. Further to the above solution by ‘Sensei Neo’ I strongly recommend a small ring world with one FE.

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