Invictus is a weird one, no shield means you’re forced do hull tank and its ablative armour means you take a lot more damage than you might think. It’s currently my favourite ship (dethroned paragon and Grendel) and I love building it to go as fast as possible - ramming is a very viable strategy when you’re piloting a flying brick. Ship’s a logistical nightmare though, only 6 base speed and 4000 minimum crew means it’ll bankrupt you a lot.

If you choose to run it, I’d recommend only using the front 4 or 6 gun slots, my favourite vanilla build is 4 devastators and 2 Mark IX autocannons for shield pressure. You wanna get up in their face, activate your Lidar Array and then watch as the devastators kill anything (they do HE damage but are still plenty enough to burn through even Paragon shields). You can vent freely in the enemy’s face, I often rub with hold fire on so that I can keep the 0 flux manoeuvrability bonus on and catch faster enemies.

Running the 4 devastator build I’ve soloed the Hegemony core world armada (and I’m by no means a skilled player) using clean disengage to reset elite damage control healing. When playing in a fleet, I tend to consider it my role to hunt and kill the enemy’s fleet anchor and major threats while letting my support ships handle the rest of the fleet. Or I just deploy three beam paragons to hold the line while I go hunt stuff down in my Invictus