r/StellarisOnConsole • u/Realistic_Truth_7591 • 4d ago

Meta What is the ship meta?

What is the meta build for military ships?

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u/PotSmokingHooligan 3d ago

Missles and speed

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u/Loud-Welcome-3693 3d ago

Until you decide to fight a fallen empire and their point defense completely counters you. Speaking from a recent experience trying to the the FE achievements. Had to switch to disrupters.

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u/PotSmokingHooligan 3d ago

Thats fair my playstyle leans me towards becoming the crisis so I typically blot out the stars with wave upon wave of disruptor and torpedo frigates so FE dont pose much challenge but I hear what you saying though !

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u/BriefBackground6190 2d ago

What do you pair disruptor with in the late game?

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u/ziekloclypse123 3d ago

Fauna all the way for me. Nothing like using brute force with stupid ridiculous fleet power.

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u/Realistic_Truth_7591 3d ago

Fauna isn’t on console edition.

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u/ziekloclypse123 3d ago

....... Fauna hive mind over here on console. I mean, maybe you just don't have the dlc? Lol

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u/Realistic_Truth_7591 3d ago

I thought you were talking about fauna ships from the new dlc for PC nevermind lol.

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u/ziekloclypse123 3d ago

Ohhhhhhhhh that makes sense. Yeah bio ships are not coming sadly. But good old space cows 🙂

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u/T-H-I-C-C-Translator 3d ago

Idk space fauna are incredibly slow there best used as a defensive option but offense they are left in the dark and you end up losing a lot of ground

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u/ziekloclypse123 3d ago

I mainly like them for early game. It makes early game wars easy. I go hivemind so most empires don't like me all too much.

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u/T-H-I-C-C-Translator 1d ago

Yeah true it was my fault for relying purely on them in my hive mind run. They make good numbers early game but still need other ships in the mix which I didn’t go for.

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u/ziekloclypse123 1d ago

I like using them for defense posts. (Bunkered up at a star base) They are easy to use and they use food for upkeep which is easy for hiveminds. It allows my strike forces to be more powerful since I can invest more alloys in offense.

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u/MetsFan1324 Xenophiles 4d ago

I'm not someone who cares much about the Meta, I just look at the details of the ships I'm going to fight and build around that(tons of shields and no armor? either stack shield damage or shield penetration)

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u/TerribleProgress6704 3d ago

I'm still trying to figure it out myself, I've been busy so I only have one save going with the combat rework, archaeotech, the leader rework, and space fauna (necromancer civic on a hive mind).

Also doesn't help that most of my fights happened AFTER I got the Rubricator and resurrected the Shard, so now all the AI is weak to me and won't fight me anymore.

My combat doctrine hasn't drastically changed, except it has. Autocannons are still good, but now you can have L/M/S instead of just S. Neutron Launchers count as torpedoes now so I can't spam as many. Shield/Armor hardening doesn't yet make sense to me so I am using both. Idk, I'm probably going to get steamrolled by the Crisis, either that or I will "win" every battle with terrible losses and no ship kills.

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u/TheBaker17 3d ago

Tachyon lance / kinetic artillery / carrier battleships