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[Striker2237]

I am curious as to if the flood can infect anchor stations, I'm trying to counter them but keep losing ships trying.....

[Whitehalomango]

Not from what I know but two other things, fight the flood with anti fighter ships. They infect you with fighters so use Stalwarts to counter that. Another thing, playing with Flood Active is a death sentence. YOU WILL DIE! AND THE MORE YOU DIE, THE STRONGER THEY ARE, MEANING YOU DIE MORE! You get the idea? Don't play Flood Active unless you want to play a kind of survival/last stand mode. Flood Inactive only means they don't send out Infecting parties.

[Scorpii]

The flood can infect your soul and your dreams of winning. Thanks VD

[Unikraken]

I've heard that the best way to counter the Flood is with swarms of Stalwarts and Athens carriers. The Stallies will kill the spores and the Athens will MAC any ships down.

[SternuS]

Yeah but can they infect flood?

 

[VDNKh]

I am curious as to if the flood can infect anchor stations, I'm trying to counter them but keep losing ships trying.....

They cannot infect star bases. Which is very important because you can give the the "Auxiliary Government" upgrade which will prevent the Flood from capturing the planet. Sabres and Stalwarts are also the most effective Flood killers I find.

 

But part of fighting the Flood is letting go of planets that you cannot defend. You're going to find you will desperately be holding on to 3 or 4 planets at the peak of Flood activity, then slowly you'll starting pushing them back when they have lost their steam. But early game its really important to take as many planets as possible to get all those resources for star bases and such.

 

This thread explains it more: https://sinsofthepro...ting-the-flood/

[JasonAHawkins]

Yeah but can they infect flood?

 

 

[Sev]

Or spam stalwarts and charons. I use 2 Charons for every stalwart I've built. I do this so I've still got siege frigates to capture their planets. And then I build another powerful fleet composed of Destroyers, Marathons/Autumns and a Supercarrier to defend against the A.Is.

Though this is mostly a lategame strategy...

[Crisiss]

Or spam stalwarts and charons. I use 2 Charons for every stalwart I've built. I do this so I've still got siege frigates to capture their planets. And then I build another powerful fleet composed of Destroyers, Marathons/Autumns and a Supercarrier to defend against the A.Is.

Though this is mostly a lategame strategy...

Horrible idea. They get a new raid fleet every time they capture a planet. So if they keep capping a planet and you keep bombing it you could potentially spawn an ass ton of flood ships.

 

The flood can infect everything but starbases, the CAS, and titans. 

 

Stalwarts as a flak frigate and some sort of combat ship to do the actual damage is what I would recommend. Uni recommends Athens but they are pretty expensive in both materials/credits and supply cost to be worth anything, really.

[Unikraken]

Horrible idea. They get a new raid fleet every time they capture a planet. So if they keep capping a planet and you keep bombing it you could potentially spawn an ass ton of flood ships.

 

The flood can infect everything but starbases, the CAS, and titans. 

 

Stalwarts as a flak frigate and some sort of combat ship to do the actual damage is what I would recommend. Uni recommends Athens but they are pretty expensive in both materials/credits and supply cost to be worth anything, really.

I recommend the Athens because of the additional strikecraft. If you want to solely rely on stalwarts for anti-spore, you can probably just send a fleet of Stalwart and Thanatos. Bomb it with Charons after.

[Scorpii]

Horrible idea. They get a new raid fleet every time they capture a planet. So if they keep capping a planet and you keep bombing it you could potentially spawn an ass ton of flood ships.

 

 

I thought this issue got fixed?

[Crisiss]

I thought this issue got fixed?

Independent issue. Only occurs with flood worlds with guardians still in orbit.

[Unikraken]

Independent issue. Only occurs with flood worlds with guardians still in orbit.

Spring Contingency. It was fixed.

[sloosecannon]

Spring Contingency. It was fixed.

The specific issue of a flood homeworld being bombed repeatedly and bringing an assault force from the depths of Hades was fixed, but what Crissis is taking about isn't fixed since it's not a bug. An active food fleet can and will micro-contingency on you if you try to fight over a planet

TL;DR: The "fix" only applies to flood homeworlds

[Crisiss]

Spring Contingency. It was fixed.

I'm aware. My point is that it is a separate issue, not the same thing.

[Unikraken]

The specific issue of a flood homeworld being bombed repeatedly and bringing an assault force from the depths of Hades was fixed, but what Crissis is taking about isn't fixed since it's not a bug. An active food fleet can and will micro-contingency on you if you try to fight over a planet

TL;DR: The "fix" only applies to flood homeworlds

Ah. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[Striker2237]

Well the flood mostly are busy making life hard for the AI right now, I'm on the other side of the map but they took my fringe world and I wanted it back lol! I ended up sending in 150 stalwarts and simply crushed them with 150 mac guns firing at the guardians one at a time and leaving when they killed more than 40 of my ships. I had so many AA frigs that the infectors were totally harmless but the guardians themselves hurt alot, hence why I need to leave when I lose too many ships. My main 3 clusters of planets are extremely well defended (maxed out anchor and as many mac guns as the system can hold and the 6 border worlds have 4 supercarriers with interceptors, after the flood started coming near my systems I moved all ships into 2 groups to watch the two worlds they were coming in from ) so the flood hardly ever are able to get more than 1 or 2 ships from me before they die. Problem is I can't beat them so well on their home turf, takes at least 3 attacks with the stalwart battle group to weaken them enough for me to set down an anchor without losing it and to bring in one of the two fleets to take the system back. 

[Striker2237]

Btw this mod is by far one of the best I've ever played for ANY game and is very fun and hold true to the books! I love that aspect the most, nothing quite like getting your brand new fleet of marathons you feel are invincible get crushed in half a minute by the first covenant fleet  you encounter.........you have hope at first and press in when they lose 6 ships from the opening salvo, gets you thinking your shiny capitals will win it easy.  However then it's like "Oh $#!%" when the capital ship commission counter starts going from 0 to 26 REALLY quick and soon the whole fleet is dead! SMAC platforms are the best thing ever......just awesome...... I will say they need much more range to reflect the books, in the books (fall of reach) the SMACs started firing and hitting the enemy ships much before the fleets rounds could accurately hit. I suggest perhaps giving the SMACs double the range of a marathon class as we know one of those was present at reach and failed to land a hit at ranges the SMACs were hitting targets, just a suggestion though......

[VDNKh]

SMAC platforms are the best thing ever......just awesome...... I will say they need much more range to reflect the books, in the books (fall of reach) the SMACs started firing and hitting the enemy ships much before the fleets rounds could accurately hit. I suggest perhaps giving the SMACs double the range of a marathon class as we know one of those was present at reach and failed to land a hit at ranges the SMACs were hitting targets, just a suggestion though......

A very powerful defensive tactic is having a small fleet of Halcyons defending in front of a SMAC. That way the enemy fleet wastes its firepower on those damage sponge Halcyons while the SMACs can take shots from the back and snipe the fleet to oblivion. 

[Crisiss]

A very powerful defensive tactic is having a small fleet of Halcyons defending in front of a SMAC. That way the enemy fleet wastes its firepower on those damage sponge Halcyons while the SMACs can take shots from the back and snipe the fleet to oblivion.

I would say that only works with AI but then I see your signature...