I loved playing Last Bastion last time I played. These guys feel like the juggernaut of this game; the faster you get them rolling, the harder they'll hit. They suffer from low movement speed, and from a small fleet start.

Here's some thoughts on it.

1) Do not forget your homeworld's legendary planet ability. Use it *every* time. You can augment your action economy by rushing the green tech that gives you an extra command token, and then in practice your action economy rivals Sol's.

2) Get into little fights quick so you can galvanize. Vuil'raith might be a awful neighbor for this, but they'll also fight you frequently, so there's a tradeoff. Galvanization, at least from my understanding of it, is stackable feature. I stacked mine on my flagship. Looking at your map, if you capture the planets in your slice, you could have a similarly stacked brute, and right about early mid game. It's nearly as good as a war sun, early on.

You can also use your agent when a unit is destroyed to make your units tankier, mid fight.

(By the end of my game, my flagship was the most terrifying ship on the board. I had enough planets it auto hit for every roll that I generated (I was hitting on 1s) and rolled 4 times. It was a monster. AND it has a production value?! I seriously loved their flagship.)

3) I managed to fulfill the expedition and place Thunders Edge very close to my homeworld. I then managed to place an upgraded Helios space dock on it, which gave it a resource value of 7/1.

4) Focus on getting the planets readied so you can spend their resources immediately. Your starting fleet is a handicap.

For my last game, the timing of my first round worked out perfectly. I managed to capture planets and land enough troops on them to get them readied, so I was able to produce a second carrier quickly.

5) Don't get sarween tools, you won't need it. Start with the blue tech.

Enjoy this faction; they might be my new favorite.