Winning by Military Conquest - Without Invading!

from Stardock Forums
I've just won a Military Conquest on 1.05 in a Gigantic galaxy at Crippling and only conducted 2 invasions all game! All I needed to do was wipe out the majority of the AI fleet, demand a few planets for peace & watch the rest culture flip.
I'm not sure how this can be addressed. You could say that with no fleets the AI can't defend himself & therefore surrenders, but on the other hand I didn't have enough Combat transports to invade many planets with 30Bn+ pop & so wouldn't have been able to take his worlds!
Sometimes Military Conquest is too easy in this game!
195 views 2 replies
Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Actually your win is more a cultural victory but like most of us who find cultural victory to be too fast and anticlimatical, we switch it off.

I would rather say that cultural conquest is too strong in this game. In my last Crippling Gigantic win, I don't recall firing a single shot nor did I build a single cultural module but the sheer culture from my many planets, TGs/wonders and influence resources allowed me to flip everyone simply by colonising planets among the AI planets.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Yes, seen this aswell... An AI without fleet is too much willing to give planets for peace... I've seen the I-League giving me all but 1 planet for peace... I get these planets with massive population then as highly productive worlds... And the left 1 planet that was taken by the Torians(Bright) culturefliped later aswell...

They also surrender to fast! They Drengin(Genius) could have damaged the economy of their enemies (me and the Torians(Bright)) a bit by letting them invade...

However, their surrendering to the Arceans(Normal) spiced the game a lot up and made things more interesting so I don't want to complain about it.

All examples are taken from my latest victorious all-on-random-game...
Sins of a Solar Empire II