Let's Play Stellaris 3.11 - Determined Exterminators Ep6 - War on the Federation

2284 to 2292

Last bit of corvette upgrades, declared war on the federation to my southwest, everything went better than expected.

Playlist link:    • Let's Play Stellaris 3.11 - Determine...  

00:00 Welcome back
00:25 Waffling on engineering again, back to gas. Notably, fitting more science dudes on our good planets with science bonuses back in our safe territory might be worth it.
00:55 Switching capital districts
01:29 Active recon glitch?
02:33 Reinforcing the corvette fleets?
03:50 We can see the Hruni's ship designs! Intel levels required to see ship designs are much lower than I thought
05:35 Maybe I should've knocked out the Yalon last time.
06:15 War planning
09:12 Unpause
10:10 Governors!
11:00 Zroni might be kinda decent for us actually
12:35 Ceramo-Metal Infrastructure is, in fact, a prereq for Orbital Rings. Sooo maybe I won't skip it next time.
12:48 Active Recon glitch confirmed as, at least, unusual
14:05 Purifiers eliminated by their rebels ): The east is consolidating.
15:20 Specifically, having all of our corvettes over a starbase with the Umbilicals for reduced upkeep.
17:45 Declaring war
19:06 Tech stolen? A good one? Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
19:45 Rivalry from the Directorate...
20:00 First fleet engagement with the Hruni
21:35 Second fleet engagement.
21:50 They're also already at 59% war exhaustion, which I failed to note.
24:15 Found a heavily-developed guaranteed habitable
25:45 Time to build gas extraction wells everywhere, so exciting
29:45 Promising Officer got some good traits
32:55 The Mirovandian fleet shows itself. That can't be all they have, right?
33:03 Starting cruisers for real this time. In 2288. Augh.
34:25 Real life intrudes. How dare the sun come out?
38:00 Engaging the Mirovandian vanguard
38:40 Maybe the reason I can't draw hyperdrive techs is this darn cognitive node with Computing Expertise.
40:23 Rivalry declared by the Avabrenn... so now they and the Directorate are going to get Mutual Rivals bonuses against me. They may have already had those against the purifiers. Consolidation in the East increasingly likely.
41:30 I missed that the Hruni have Psychological Infertility, lol. I don't even need to take their planets to damage their economic growth! I just need to declare war and then sit there behind my starbases!
44:12 Mirovandian main fleet found again, frozen in terror.
45:45 Mirovandian fleet boldly charges into certain death.
46:43 How are Cruisers like fusion power?
48:48 New contact, south of the federation. Looks fairly strong.
50:14 I have never seen pirates get into fights with space wildlife before.
50:50 Dude, where are my transports? Oh right.
51:15 The natives of the Hruni homeworld resort to crime in a desperate effort to survive.
53:55 First look at the Mirovandian homeworld.
56:51 Cruisers still 30 months out. Forever.
57:15 It turns out my 70-corvette fleets are not so great at bombardment when used alone.
58:13 Turns out they still have a couple k left. Some of it is a federation fleet!
1:01:53 "I think we're around an hour." Proceeds to play for another 20 minutes -_-
1:02:15 I neglected to consider that the Computing Expertise node means I will probably draw advanced labs again before I draw upgraded energy grid again.
1:05:42 Forward-recruiting armies from captured planets.
1:11:33 Darn organics, always reproducing.
1:13:32 Starting to wrap up
1:14:15 More signs of consolidation in the East
1:15:07 Maybe the reason my engineering research takes forever is that I produce fewer points of engineering research than of the other sciences.