So in BotE, you might send out scouts around your main force to get some feedback so you know when and where to make course corrections and home in on the enemy. Fleets are fine for the attack, but first you have flush out the enemy like when hunting. Hunting is not shooting and shooting is not hunt...

In BotE on a maximum galactic map, unless a major race empire is tiny and you are huge and CLOSE, it makes zero sense to attack before turn#400 as there are other fish to fry. There is diplomacy and colonization and huge parts of the galaxy to control. Why bother attacking early as it just makes bot...

With BotE's extremely slow top warp speed limitations, a military commander has to write down plans and goals and be genuinely methodical to achive milestones as everything is about enormous planning like D Day level planning. There is zero hurrying in BotE and it is frustrating. You have to pretend...

I have 3 scouts actively working the extreme northern part of the map, and you will see I have been using two small fleets to also explore. I reckon you can totally explore the map by turn #500. One Kaph class scout is stuck on the back row until you do some conquering. You might send a fleet and pi...

Technically a sector with many alternative energy projects like Charge Collectors, Solar, Wind, etc should need less personnel to generate energy points. Therefore in some sectors, a small number of the billions would be tied up, so even with a suboptimal total population ie under 10.0 billion, you ...

You have so many trained experienced veteran Level 6 troops and a gigantic amount of starships that you should be able to go on a massive attack of all the empires except the Heyoun and I doubt they can even attack back. You have quite a few colony ships terraforming, so count them up versus the map...

It's nicer to load the BotE files as a .sav and a png, but that uses up more memory for the forum versus a zipped file, and you could have multiple saves that way. Be careful and back up your own saves FIRST as a zip in the downloads directory in a specific subdirectory so you can return to your pre...

#481 I trimmed sabotage to be precisely 10% across the board for all of the empires including the Heyoun. This way by the time I get around to attacking them in the southeast corner, they should be defenseless. They are the only ones not at war with me. Briefly in turn #480, the Terrans were willing...

See the advanced Omega save game topic on why a defenseless inhabited sector when invaded likely needs an assault ship escort without using torpedoes. For the Omega, a modified Saijin class starship probably with heavy armor and beam weapons only.

In no way can I recommend terraforming and inhabiting a sector with a sub 10.0 population rate. That is a shame really. That region could be for a lot of helpful elements, but can't ever be autonomous. It lacks enough people to power up everything including defenses. Probably you can make up to a 6....

When properly modded, I think the Khaoran is who you want to play as they will be much stronger and not suffer from sabotage. That is if you play a game of conquest. They actually are the worst ones to play now and that seems very wrong. You can't help but admire them. To make BotE seem authentic, t...

If you are the Cartare or Rotharians or Omega, then largely subterfuge through espionage and sabotage is your primary means of attack. Thus you can easily use lesser starships and troops to seize inhabited territory for a fraction of the cost I am using. You just can win with numbers as your enemy h...

The AI looks at data in terms of numbers only. Every turn, some of the best Omega inhabited sectors can make whole starships and most often complete level 6 combat troops. I actually have the industry rate set to zero in many cases as the priority is mining caches as that can be sold for endless pro...

The AI will never understand how to properly employ such military tactics to attempt low casualty rates. This poses an unnecessary risk to the invasion attackers, but some troops would likely accept those conditions even though the military attrition rate would be higher. It's a gutsy move for the s...

Multiple tests of a single transport attacking alone, thus having no capacity to bombard still causes more damage than a single Saijin acting in an escort capacity and using a single transport. It makes no sense. To be fair, I am using 15 combat troops instead of six which is the proper amount and s...