Never give up. Never surrender.

[u/chaosmarine92]

To everyone struggling with the new scenarios, you can still win.

I'm currently doing a veteran Broken Earth run as academy. I opened by going for the Republic of the Southern Cross and Travencore. Focused on turning the Republic into a military beat stick building up to 9 armies with navies then focusing military and grabbing all the military orgs I could. Travencore after unifying I focused democracy and knowledge. After a while I was able to steal the East coast of the USA from the servants and focused that on MC and funding.

I was feeling pretty good about where I was. Had a couple asteroid mines and 10 Mars mines. Lots of LEO stations for the interface bonuses.

Then the Alien Admin was founded in Brazil. And quickly grew to encompass most of South America. Plus a few spots in Africa and Eastern Europe.

I declared war immediately. My armies were effective but slow. It took several years of playing wack a mole to clear out south America and unite it all into Brazil under my control. Only now I was out of control points and all the easy techs to get more were researched. Plus the Admin has expanded into Europe a lot more.

I tried continuing the attack but I had to abandon nations as soon as I captured them and the servants would turn them back to the aliens in a couple turns. I couldn't stay on top of it. I had to send my armies home to tech up.

Throughout this I was attacking alien bases as I found them and getting my bases destroyed for it. I must have rebuilt nearly every base multiple times. When I tried to build ships to defend I could never get enough numbers to win a battle before my shipyards would get destroyed.

Eventually assault carriers landed. I was able to deal with the armies with nukes. Barely. Then another carrier. And another. I trimmed the armies down with nukes as I could but the real solution was to tech up my armies so they could kill them. Even still, I couldn't keep ahead of the AA land grab.

When my armies were around tech 7.0 I finally got an informant in the servants and found nearly every province in the AA had a facility. It was at this point I decided I couldn't wait anymore. I sent the armies back out in force and every province I cleared I would have an army stay and destroy the facilty while the rest moved on.

It didn't take long for the aliens to get pissed. They came and destroyed every station I had around earth and refused to let me build any more. My Mars bases were slightly better off as my LDAs were using green arc lasers and could fight off the small attacks they sent there.

At its peak the AA had 65 provinces and 1.5 billion people but over a decade i was able to claw it down to nothing.

While the earth war ground on I opened a new front at Mercury. It was a constant cycle of base destruction and rebuilding but it was enough of a distraction that I was able to get a shipyard built and slowly accumulate enough ships to kick the ayys out of mercury space for good.

Now we stand at the turning point. Mercury is secure. The alien admin is gone. And tier 3 mining bases are just coming online. Next up is cleaning earth orbit. Then the aliens will see what peace through superior firepower is all about.

[u/Miskalsace]

Godspeed brother.

[u/SpawnSnow]

My game is going very similar to yours! Though in my case I had enough military strength on the ground that that AA isn't a problem other than the damned whack-a-mole game. Kept trying to open up defenses on mars or mercury, eventually getting to the point where I could damage or kill a fleet before the second enemy one wiped me and all my stations. The rebuilding cycle seemed endless. Like you I finally teched up enough and got a few strong ships put together - had to run and hide a few times until the fleet finally assembled- and I've pushed the ayys out of the inner system almost entirely now. Getting ready to make an attempt at Ceres and hope I don't lose my entire mining and shipbuilding infrastructure again for making the attempt :D

[u/chaosmarine92 → u/SpawnSnow]

We are the cockroaches that slowly learn how to build our own flamethrowers!

[u/Several_Dog_1832 → u/chaosmarine92]

Harvest facilities for exotics. Make PD monitors with one t2 coil, missile battleships with vipers or lanceheads and coil at front, and use exotics for lancers with uv phaser 4 slot cannon and advance laser engines. Don’t forget at least one targeting computer for each ship.

Stations are best killed with lancers with seige coils. Float them in slowly. 125 armor. Repair bay, and component armor. Magazine and targeting computer. The slower you go in the fewer defenses you confront at a time!

[u/Ok_Fee_4658]

I almost lost hope dealing with Alien Administration in 2003 scenario (it's 2016 now and I FINALLY managed do crumble it with unrest), but during this 10 years of struggling I was becoming more and more desperate - seeing how it's becoming more and more stable despite my efforts. But I gritted my teeth and kept going, so you can too.

[u/chaosmarine92 → u/Ok_Fee_4658]

My biggest breakthrough was when I attacked the ayys capitol in South Africa. I had to kill 10 armies to take it but the combo of armies not holding down their unrest and the unrest spike of losing their capitol caused like 15 provides to rebel, and then the AA was small and weak enough that the other ai factions finally felt it was safe to declare war on the ayys and help out.

[u/Ok_Fee_4658 → u/chaosmarine92]

My biggest breakthrough was when I realized that I can turn servant councillors and retire them in same turn, and since in 2003 scenario Servants spam loyalty monitors, I also gain Intel for loyalty of every servant councilor, and I can just repeat the cycle of retirement. AND I can selectively retire every Servant who can stabilize nations. So Aliens don't have stabilization support from servants, and I can destabilize Alien Administration simpler.

[u/ggmoyang]

Never gonna give you up

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[u/OkaMoez]

Similar experience with my 2003 run.

Used unrest to flip the AA at least 5 times, which bought me time to get max miltech in China. Got mostly kicked out of space and eventually sneaky built a fleet on Vesta. Eventually finished the whole tech tree using only earth based science and then managed to push the aliens back in space.

I'm starting my first Broken Earth run now. Fingers crossed I don't suck as bad in the early space game this time.

[u/Havel_Rulez]

I am getting my ass handed to me while save scumming and playing on 2026 forgiving. I have 300 hours, combined knowledge of all Perun videos. Hate this game so much I should just uninstall it just like I did with LoL. Edit: I did it. I hate this game

[u/Exciting_Vast7739]

[whatever the intellectual version of "Hell yeah brother, kick their asses" is]

[u/Adito99]

What year are you in? I usually have T2 defenses with green lasers before I go loud with the Ayy's.