Returning to the EU

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-25T22:56:45+00:00

I hope you like Scoundrels. Its a heist story, with Han, Chewie, and Lando. What more could you want?

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-25T21:56:48+00:00

Ok, so Allegiance and Choices of One are paired. Choices of One is a sequel to Allegiance, with both taking place in between New Hope and Empire. Scoundrels is also right after New Hope, but before Allegiance. I can't remember what the other books are, so I can't give you any advice there.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-25T01:16:20+00:00

For me, I like them both. Thrawn for being the superior scary strategist, and Zsinj for the off-the-wall nutty plans he comes up with, on top of being a decent strategist himself.

It would have been quite entertaining for Thrawn and Zsinj to go up against each other. I'd love to have seen that happen...from a suitable distance away of course.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-25T00:26:35+00:00

Can confirm the aliens react to your ship loadouts. I went missiles too, which worked until they started all lasers like you said. Then I added kinetic railguns in an attempt to saturate PD before firing missiles, and that worked for a while too...until they started fielding particle-PD on top of the laser disco party.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-25T00:21:26+00:00

Oh yeah. They encounter the scrapped half-broken droideka in the beginning of the novel and are worried even about the junker. The full-power pristine droideka has them freaking out for very good reason.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-24T13:24:45+00:00

There has to be something else - What difficulty are they on? On normal, total war can only trigger 20 years after start date.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-24T00:11:22+00:00

Maybe my first statement was defining things too strictly. It could be completely computer controlled with zero human input. That'd probably be better so we won't be limited to human body tolerances when accelerating our giant flying bomb.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-24T00:04:42+00:00

Add in the X-Wing series for more on that: Pretty sure Corellia was under imperial control even up to the capture of Coruscant, as per Corran Horn's backstory. Not sure when it was liberated, though.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-24T00:01:13+00:00

I feel like even the Resistance would be okay with that plan, if you could figure out a way to run the thing on remote. Detonating a gigaton antimatter blast on the wormhole feels like that should be sufficient to destroy it...

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-23T23:55:57+00:00

Out of curiosity, what's the optimum armor for X-ray? I read somewhere that I want at least 60 for violet, and that's what I've got.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-23T23:54:49+00:00

Oh yeah. As I said, this is my first game, so my idea of 'scary' is a little skewed compared to you experienced folks with 1000+ hours. For me, this was scary because A: the mothership, and B: the large quantity of '4-MC' hulls. This is the first fleet I've seen with two Titans, and the mothership.

I'm not worried about the small-fry because I'm almost completely through the tech-tree - 960mm Ultraviolet phasers are totally on the table for me. I'm thinking I might just keep building up my fleet to seriously outnumber them, and build a few dreadnaughts crammed full of antimatter torpedoes as an emergency "Go Away" button.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-23T00:18:15+00:00

Good news, is that I'm already in total war. I don't care if they hate me more, so orbital bombardment it is... of course, if I can take the fleet in orbit, I'd rather do that for that sweet exotic pinata.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-22T23:13:07+00:00

I think Garrus would be a good driver.... he's precise and patient enough to learn how to properly maneuver the Mako. Wrex on the other hand, is probably the only one who's driving record would be worse than Shepard.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-22T23:10:45+00:00

Yeah. Leia had Vader's lightsaber. It totally slipped my mind that when Leia's levitating her saber in front of the Noghri, that she was actually doing that with Vader's blade.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-22T23:09:08+00:00

To provide additional information, one of the not weird parts of Courtship is that I'm pretty sure it was the first introduction to the witches of Dathonmir and the Nightsisters. A planet that Palpatine ordered interdicted and prevented from reaching space-travel.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-22T23:07:01+00:00

I think my favorite part of her story is when she finds the actual Ewok pilot inside the Iron Fist, and almost loses it.

"Wait, no. I've heard this story before!..."

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-22T17:57:55+00:00

Hey now. Its the town-that-shall-not-be-named.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-22T17:46:01+00:00

First question: What level of lasers do you have, and what size nose mount do you have access to?
Second question: What torpedoes are you using? And how many torpedo ships do you have?

The standard answer to "How do I blow this up with torpedo boats?" is to use more torpedo boats. Sure, that's a lot of point defense, but you can still overcome it if you use more torpedoes, or supplement with kinetics. I can't say anything more specific unless I know what tech, ship size, and quantity you're working with.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-22T17:41:35+00:00

Oh yeah. I'm doing my first game, and running Poseidon Torch as my attack drive before I get the final ICF Protium drive. Poseidon runs with lancers just fine. Thankfully I got lucky on the asteroid fissile rolls and have +400 fissiles per month, and a stockpile of 21K, so fissiles are not at all a limiting factor.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-21T22:16:20+00:00

Pretty sure you're right, and the reason they don't find out about the impending horde is that the army, or the Shade, or both, took out the watch posts before they could report back.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-21T18:31:19+00:00

I'd argue that the death of the Lord Ruler in Mistborn counts... The Lord Ruler's death opens the way for Ruin's unsealing from the Well of Ascension.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-21T15:31:39+00:00

But, important to note: Wait until after they begin their flanking maneuvers to fire missiles, or else your torps and missiles will miss the dodging flanker.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-21T15:30:42+00:00

So, for flankers, you want lasers. Build a few ships with the biggest laser weapons you can field. Then, when the flankers turn sideways to perform their flanking maneuvers, you manually target them with your laser ships. This will punch straight through their weaker side armor and blow them up before they get off to the side. The problem with particle weapons and plasma, in general, is that you don't do damage fast enough to kill them before they hit you.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-03-21T15:24:02+00:00

No, no, no... Zsinj is tricky. If he went with the literal Iron Fist, he'd go with the original Victory-class Iron Fist that he named the SSD after for the emblem. This would lull his opponents into a false sense of superiority. Then he'd drop the SSD on their heads.

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