Terra Invicta - by the XCOM 1/2 The Long War makers

[VARRAKK]

Holy shiet that one is expensive to unlock

[rufuske]

Holy shiet that one is expensive to unlock

Yup but together with industrialization of space worth rushing. Especially when you have adm maxed on all the others.

[VARRAKK]

Bitter lesson learnt, gathering Boost takes an awful long time.
Building bases requires a lot of boost for mining.

I probably got 2-3 months worth of stock building to do before I can get my mining rigs lifted to the moon.
Also my moon is pretty poo

[VARRAKK]

How do I gain control over China?

[Brockosaurus]

How do I gain control over China?

I feel like China is a huge trap. USA comes with a huge military + nukes, and Russia has even more nukes and only 4 CP. Controlling those 2 is probably the best strat, especially to make sure the nukes don't fall into crazy hands (Servants have USA in my 2nd start and are starting wars every turn - no nukes yet, but it's bad). Best I've done is 2 CP in China (in the same game).

To actually take it, I guess focus first on taking every CP neighbouring China, excluding rivals. And then spam a ton of public campaigns to boost your standing, slowly. And then finally spam a ton of high-influence spend, low-probability Control missions. If you really max out every chance, you'll eventually get there.

[VARRAKK]

I went straight for the US and got it early on, and kept Canada.
One of my latest acquisitions was Russia and Ukraine.
Taiwan, Singapore, Israel, Australia, Kazakhstan. And of course Best Korea, in case someone needs to be nuked.
Maybe I should set my eyes on India.

My strategy been to interfere as much for the other factions, so they don't get a good foothold in space.
Got all the good spots on Moon and Mars. Slowing their progress down, and taking some good Science nations.

No idea how I'm doing vs aliens.

[VARRAKK]

How do I gain control over China?

Invade it?

[Saul]

Someone needs to tell the devs that tooltips are not a fucking tutorial. I've played my share of grand strategy games but this is the most obtuse fucking nonsense I've ever seen.

[morpheps]

How do I gain control over China?

To actually take it, I guess focus first on taking every CP neighbouring China, excluding rivals. And then spam a ton of public campaigns to boost your standing, slowly. And then finally spam a ton of high-influence spend, low-probability Control missions. If you really max out every chance, you'll eventually get there.

I haven't tried it myself, but that was what someone mentioned in a strategy video on YT as well. Grab neighbours, wear them down.

[VARRAKK]

How do I gain control over China?

To actually take it, I guess focus first on taking every CP neighbouring China, excluding rivals. And then spam a ton of public campaigns to boost your standing, slowly. And then finally spam a ton of high-influence spend, low-probability Control missions. If you really max out every chance, you'll eventually get there.

I haven't tried it myself, but that was what someone mentioned in a strategy video on YT as well. Grab neighbours, wear them down.

Takes too much CP. Which includes India etc.

[Saul]

How do I gain control over China?

To actually take it, I guess focus first on taking every CP neighbouring China, excluding rivals. And then spam a ton of public campaigns to boost your standing, slowly. And then finally spam a ton of high-influence spend, low-probability Control missions. If you really max out every chance, you'll eventually get there.

I haven't tried it myself, but that was what someone mentioned in a strategy video on YT as well. Grab neighbours, wear them down.

Takes too much CP. Which includes India etc.

Can it be unified in sections like the EU? If so, you could take chunks of it and steadily increase. Or maybe take all of it, abandon low-GDP chunks you can't afford so you're not paying costs (will place them in crackdown but that doesn't automatically mean another faction will take them, though you'll go over cap for a while so a good influence buffer is probably necessary), then unify what you can and expand to the abandoned chunks once you can afford the points?

[VARRAKK]

How do I form Unions/Federations?

[Kilabi]

Raise standing between two countries you "own". After a cooldown time you can for alliances or if you fullfill all requirements you can federalize.

[Saul]

From a bit of searching in the Pavonis discord, doesn't look like you can unify China into a 'single nation' to save on control points like you can the EU without first researching a tech (one of the post-invasion social ones, not sure of the name). Best you could do is hold all regions individually, assuming enough control points, then pump research points into global research so you can control the direction of global tech, take the social techs until you get the one that unlocks Greater China, then begin unifying using the Set Policy councilor action. You'd almost certainly have to overhaul their economy along the way, but on the plus side if you get that tech, GC also includes most of South Asia, Japan, Korea etc., so you'd have a powerhouse.

[VARRAKK]

Raise standing between two countries you "own". After a cooldown time you can for alliances or if you fullfill all requirements you can federalize.

I got US & Canada, but I see no option to create an alliance or federation.

[Saul]

Raise standing between two countries you "own". After a cooldown time you can for alliances or if you fullfill all requirements you can federalize.

I got US & Canada, but I see no option to create an alliance or federation.

Alliances are done in the relations tab (a couple of tabs to the right of the economic breakdown for a country). Federating US and Canada probably requires a tech, like I explained for China.

[VARRAKK]

Any ideas why I can't equip this org? None of my dudes can.

[Saul]

Each of the gold stars on the orgs is the admin cost. She's got 24 of 25 points spent (and the cap is 15 orgs equipped no matter how high her admin goes). Alnitak Aviation costs three, so you can't equip it. You could equip Lynx Metals though, for example, with her one remaining point.

[RazoR]

and you can't boost admin past 25 so the struggle to optimize orgs is real

[VARRAKK]

Each of the gold stars on the orgs is the admin cost. She's got 24 of 25 points spent (and the cap is 15 orgs equipped no matter how high her admin goes). Alnitak Aviation costs three, so you can't equip it. You could equip Lynx Metals though, for example, with her one remaining point.

So each star = admin points cost
Here I thought it just meant how good the org was..