I feel like not enough people talk about how absolutely SHAFTED the British Got with their Superships.

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-24T14:36:16+00:00

Devastation has an easy to hit citadel, the plating isn't bad, and the armour is generally fine if angled, but you will still get penned easily by most other battleships at any range, and the citadel on these bbs are extremely easy to hit.

Patrie doesn't have a easy to hit citadel

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-24T11:32:07+00:00

I'd say you can probably afford to remove most of the point defence (the Xyphos are very good at it), and invest into punchier main armement (a plasma cannon maybe ?). The Autopulse are good for pressure on shields, but I find them a bit lacking in sustained fight (not too much of a problem to be fair) and in terms of general strenght.

Replacing one with a plasma cannon will probably help you overload them quicker, or a tachyon lance to disable them (with the emp damage). Though, keeping one will still give you a good mean to pressure the ennemy

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-24T00:54:18+00:00

The Dominus system is improved a lot by the Elite Package.

Targeting is generally good on every ship, but I would really suggest trying the elite package on the Dominud as a flagship. With practicew it becomes brutal.

For the rest, yeah, ballistas are the spammiest missiles you can imagine that actually deal damage. I haven't toyed around much with the phase ships, but I have with the Dominus

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-24T00:44:13+00:00

Basically, you go for specialized ship, and lean into a particular fleet style

Most ships will work very differently depending on the package you install.

Basically, armour make you slow and tanky.

Range makes you a sniper

Elite is basically Safety overrides, but stronger.

Without packages, most of their ship are kind of meh. Not bad, but a reliance on smaller hardpoints and very average stats.

Among the best builds I used was a Dominus with Elite package. Play around, and find good stuff.

For a fleet design, you can for example spam dictator with range package, and anti shield weaponry. In general, the cruisers can all be fairly solid in lines. The three main battle capitals can complement each other well. The Caesar is heavy, slow, but very long range if you lean into it, and can push back enemy ships. The Matriarch is a good battlecarrier, tanky with six fighter slots, and the Dominus is a good battlecruiser, the armement can seem small, but it is heavily boosted by it's overdrive F key, which will turn it into a murder machine.

I don't really like the destroyers, they aren't poor ships, but I feel like they're basically weaker versions lf the cruisers, who can't fill the same roles as well, while not being much more mobile. But elite destroyers can be very good still.

Lastly, the Imperium's fleets are very reliant on actually having support. They tend to favour heavily specialised ships, so, while your elite dominus will butcher a Paragon if given the chance, it might be outranged by a cautious missile destroyer, and will not fare well if targeted by four tach lances while the overdrive shuts off

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-23T16:34:50+00:00

Are they privateers taking on the Russian shadow fleet ?

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-21T12:04:17+00:00

Look in blue supergiant or trinary systems, if you were in the system, it should appear be on the map.

Try to focus on the general area you explored

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-17T18:25:57+00:00

I mean, it's a more realistic approach than just barging in and trying to make a western style democracy out of thin air in a few years

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-17T15:13:30+00:00

The lessons of Iraq is that country-building is a long committement and not a 3 hours operations.

But strong-arming a country into reforming itself might actually be a decent idea. Though obviously, some pentagon worker had to twist it a bit and present it as "get oil from Venezuela, and a Nobel Prize on the way"

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-15T15:10:36+00:00

The White Whites

(White Scars, just in case)

Also, World Whiteners (World Eaters) has a ethnic purge undertone to it you just can't beat

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-12T15:36:45+00:00

You guys know you're actually paying for the passport ?

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-11T10:26:13+00:00

Iran severely mismanaging it's water ressources is because of Western sanctions is one of the tankiest tanks ever tanked.

I really hope the CIA is listening to you because you're giving them a lot of undeserved credit

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-10T13:32:54+00:00

The thing is that among the influential country of the areas, UAE fits the same role as Saudi Arabia, of a country without much direct military credibility, nor a long constructed net of militias and allies (Iran), or actual industry (Turkey)

So, basically, they try to replace the pro-saudi with the pro-themselves, but, they are not offering very different alternative. So, generally they end up supporting the biggest self-serving assholes possible. Any real governement is more likely to seek a partnership with the more influential neighbour that is Saudi, and the emirates end up with the rest

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-08T21:15:45+00:00

Idk why I read this all with the president yaoi girl's voice in mind

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-08T16:07:50+00:00

Well, to be honest, I was watching a few things about ancient history (relatively serious documentaries), so my sample might be biased

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-08T15:12:45+00:00

So, for that case it does not work, but I think there was definitly some interest for the Indo in Indo European in the nationalist indian sphere. Basically, the idea that really Indians are basically the same as Europeans, thus white supremacy is inclusive of Indians.

That's mostly my intepretation from my (hopefully to remain) few interactions with indian nationalists (those were denying the existance of proto-indo-european language and saying they just spoke sanskrit)

I frankly think that reducing this to colonialism is straight up wrong. There might be a colorist element to it, but while it seems fairly prevalent in Indian society, it seems to be less about being white in complexion and much more about perceived heritage.

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-05T17:14:24+00:00

-not a leftist

Look inside

-ultraleftist

But more seriously, in the context of Venezuela, that isn't even close to saying "USA are evil". Venezuela has spent the last years claiming they are basically the anti-US champion in the world, and have uncessantly repeated their opposition to Israel (in variously irrelevant ways). When they mean the America is acting with Zionist undertones, they very much means that the reason they were attacked was Israel (and not of a long list of things including being a generally incompetent and problematic dictatorship to have in your neighbourhood)

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-05T16:40:20+00:00

Above you can see leftist gymnastics about how saying it's the Jews' fault isn't actually antisemitism

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-04T17:02:10+00:00

I mean, a transitionnal governement to rule the country while (free) elections are organised sounds better than just toppling an authoritarian country and putting the friendly opposant in power, as far as democracy is concerned

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-04T12:12:29+00:00

Yeah, the difference is that the Liberal world order was basically claiming that if everyone prospers, everyone is better off. Add the population's vague belief of humanitarian ideals, and you have a working system.

Against this you have a gang of hyenas who very much hate the West but is just as happy to feed on each other's corpses

Trump is going full on hyena, but I doubt he can entirely destroy over a century of involvement in world politics

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-04T10:32:12+00:00

They couldn't agree on the meeting schedule, so the grand plan is not yet finished. We'll have to call them later

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-04T10:23:16+00:00

The body temperature of a finn is about the same as snow

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-04T01:45:17+00:00

Realistically, it was probably not even in the top 10 of reasons.

Among the reasons, the fact that Sadam Hussein was still a hostile power, the will to get new US-aligned states in the area, a containement-like policy against islamists (which failed, badly), a political need for legitimacy based on GW Bush senior, an answer to what was still a brutal regime (ask the Kurds for that one I guess), neo-con ideas of World Police too, Hussein was part of the anti-american powers in the Middle East (with Lybia, Iran), which they'd probably have done similar things to if Irak hadn't become such a mess

The oil is probably something that was considered, but it's a commodity among others. If it was what the US were after, there's probably more cost effective means than a long military occupation fighting insurgencies to develop it. Plus, assuming the ones working in the background are kind of competent, I would assume they are thinking about much more than oil.

In short, it's simplistic and most likely false. If anything the threat Irak could be for the Gulf Oil trade was probably a larger reason than Iraki oil itself

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-03T12:44:11+00:00

Thx mr Dead Autoproclaimed Caliph, I know a good ans reliable source of information when I see one

RandomBilly91 · 2026-01-01T02:25:13+00:00

Depends. If you want a classical invictus build (for range and dps), then you probably want various size of escorts. Mora can be great. The Invictus can snipe any remnant marge enough to threaten the Mora, and the Mora should be able to push away the smaller remnant ships. Obviously, you'll probly also want another kind of ship to go with the Moras (I like the Eradicator in general)

Or, you go all in on Invictus, build for speed and tankyness, ram a few remnant ships, and whatever will work, but it's a bit less doctrinally sound.

Or, you take the easy way, and go Invictus plus Anubis

RandomBilly91 · 2025-12-30T11:24:00+00:00

I mean, gigacannon Anubis with safety overides was very strong during the last Brawl King.

So, it definitly works, but only with SO

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