the dreadlords are killing me what do i do?

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hi i got a small probleme in the campagne where the dreadlords first appear

its the mission where you get the first medium galaxy and where you have too get the planet at the other site and where you got 2 ally

the dreadlords arent stopping attacking me i cant make any ships at all they blast it when he gets out they are taking my planets slowly like they send 4vs16000 and they stil get it its hard too play when you cant fly and that your losing ground and why the hell are they giving me 3 constructors in the start it doesnt have the time too build a modul that it get blast.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

The Dread Lords can take out any ship almost regardless how many defence it has. Therefore, make small ships with as many guns as you can and no defence. Produce them faster than the Dread Lords can destroy them. Attack in large fleets of at least five but better 8 ships. Always make sure you are the attacker and not the Dread Lords, this makes your ships fire first so you have a chance to destroy the Dread Lord ship before it can fire.

Protect starbases with a large fleet on the same square until they are advanced enough to defend themselves.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Yeah, the dreadlords can be tricky.  One thing you have to keep in mind is that you will lose a lot of ships in the beginning before your tech gets high enough that you can start turning the tide.  I didn't even bother with setting up starbases, except for the ones they give you, since they would just get destroyed.  By the time I was powerful enough to defend them, there really was little need to even build them.

In the beginning, just try to keep your planets defended so that they can't bring in the troop support to take them over.  If the opportunity presents itself, take out one of their ships...  Remember that the AI is not the most intelligent and, rather than sticking around until their troop transports arrive, will move their fleets to another location and the transport will come in later, undefended.  So, after they eliminate your defenders and have moved elsewhere (which they do right away), make sure that you have another defender built there.

Make sure that a lot of your focus is in developing stronger weapons and logistics.  And I'll second that on the defense - they are useless against the dreadlords.  Once your weapons and logistics are high enough, you will be able to make groups of either small ships, as dmantione suggested, or use medium sized and small ships combined, which was the way I went.  Once you can start getting high enough attacks, you'll be able to start taking out on their ships for each one that you lose... once you get there, you'll have no problem with them.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

You can almost shut them down just by putting spies on their planet - seems to shut them down fairly hard and they don't seem to do counter espionage.

Alternatively you can put a few engines on a ship and stay just close enough for them to chase you and lead them into the territory of someone you don't like anyway.

Jonnan

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I find that they use the Doom ray a lot more than any other weapon so if you want a defence use beam weapon defences. Also make sure you attack first when engaging and attack in fleets of about 4-5 fighters. That will handle most the smaller vessel's. The largervessels may be a problem though but I find that if you have a military starbase in the area it will become much easier to kill them. Use small ships, keep them in large fleets and always engage first.

That's what i normally do. Good luck.