The first strategy takes longer to achieve victory but requires far less reinforcements than straight invasion.

Once a fleet has made it to an enemy system you can blockade it to slowly lower the defense rating or send your troops down right away to weaken the enemy. To defeat an enemy, you need to take over all the systems that they control. Being early in the game, neither the Cravers or I had progressed far in our respective tech trees, so the ships we were using were basic. With my new allies serving as a distraction to the Cravers, I could build up a fleet and begin my conquest over our common enemy. I was easily able to negotiate a truce and trade routes with the Unfallen, but the Cravers wanted nothing but war. Within my first six turns I had discovered the Unfallen, a race of space trees, and the Cravers, an insect machine race. Diplomacy can extend to other player races as well, once they are discovered. This is important to keep in mind as you think of what systems to colonize, because a fully realized minor faction is far more beneficial than a new outpost needing to be built from scratch. In all my encounters with minor civilizations I made nice and once they liked me enough I could assimilate them into my empire. Minor civilizations are non-player races that players can decide to either negotiate with or destroy. The key benefit to having more systems is that it gives you more resources to build upgrades and ships.Īs you explore the galaxy you can happen upon a minor civilization. To colonize a system, your colony ship will be used to create an outpost and after a set amount of turns a new colony will be yours.

Systems can consist of one to five planets and most will not be habitable at the beginning of the game. Scouts are great for exploring the area around your home system and to find a new system you want to colonize with your colony ship. As the game starts you begin with two ships: a scout and a colony ship. For both of my games I played as the human inspired United Empire. There are eight total playable races in Endless Space 2. Knowing I wouldn’t get to play as much as I would like for this review, I decided to go for broke and started a game with me and 11 other AI players. Starting a new game with what I had learned from the tutorial, I was ready to take on the galaxy.

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