AI War 2 Concepts - Choosing Ships Wisely

There have been a lot of questions recently from new players on the general information overload in AI War 2 and how to go about picking what military assets to use. Here I try to provide a basic useful framework for doing that, aimed at beginner to intermediate players.

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** Zenith Onslaught Trailer -    • AI War 2  : The Zenith Onslaught (DLC...  

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AI War 2:

** AI War 2 Beginner Walkthrough (Novice tutorial, single difficulty-4 AI, Basic Quickstart) -    • Let's Play AI War 2 - Beginner Walkth...  

** The Real War Begins (advanced tutorial, 'traditional/standard' dual-7 AIs with a few other factions) -    • AI War 2 - The Real War Begins  

** Faction Frenzy (chaos galaxy with all factions on, four adaptive AIs and Civil War enabled) -    • AI War 2 - Faction Frenzy  

** Tasting the Spire (first run at The Spire Rises DLC with Fallen Spire, Scourge allied & hostile, and Dark Spire)-    • AI War 2 - Tasting the Spire!  

** Spire, Simplified (focused Spire reboot on standard difficulty) -    • AI War 2;  Spire, Simplified  

** Attack of the Zombies (Diff-9 Special Forces Master w/ Parasite emphasis) -    • AI War 2 - Attack of the Zombies  

** Royal Inspiration (Diff-8, Spiral Snake, Fallen Spire 7, Dark Spire 5. Epic, max-out-the-Spire run was requested) -    • AI War 2 - Royal Inspiration  

** Paradigm Shift (updated 'advanced tutorial' walkthrough of the rebalanced game, difficulty 7 AI) -    • AI War 2 - Taste It Again, For the Fi...