How did you get past this one? I just finished playing through it for the first time and damn that Excalibur is invincible!I tried everything I could think of but I couldn't even dent that ship, and with 10 moves one can't run away from it. even the two space sharks I liberated had no effect on this monster ship. As none of my ships could stand up to this ship I decided to try battleships to see if they would fare any better. By the time I got to battleship tech I was being overwhelmed by transports with no hope of victory.In the past I have usually won by diplomacy or culture so military conquest is rather new for me so any pointers would be appreciated.
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the key to this one is planet hopping, and scouts. What you do is you pick speed for your bonsues on this level, so your ships move faster. What you do is lure the exalibur away with scouts, while your colony ship moves to the next yellow star.
A good idea is to keep your spending low (like 20%) and just purchase the ships you need, since timing is the key here and you want your colony ships on their way before the exalibur is on its way back. Once you colonize all you can, they key is to keep using this tactic, only instead of colony ships, you want corvettes and transports to take out there defenses and then invade. Also, you only need to capture vol, so if you get a planet within 1 or 2 sectors, just try and go straight for vol while ignoring the rest of his planets.
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