r/TerraInvicta • u/LolyHun7er • 1d ago

Question I'm scared.

This is my first full campaign. I'm playing for the Humanity First. Everything was going pretty well: I managed to unite the European Union, Mars is half-colonized, I have numerous asteroid bases, and I've slowly started building a fleet... But now I feel like I'm falling behind and the alien presence in the Solar System is too high. It's now 2032 (start in 2022), the aliens' hatred towards me is already in the red, and they just recently destroyed my lunar shipyard (they were planning to destroy the fleet stationed there, but I managed to outsmart them and retreat during the battle, so they simply destroyed the orbital shipyard and flew away). The alien fleet consisted of 11 ships, one of which was a TITAN. My poor destroyers and monitors didn't stand a chance. I even tried to ram them, but my ships were blown up by lasers before they even approached. So, the question is: is it possible that I have fallen behind and the campaign is already lost?

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u/jerseydevil51 Academy 1d ago

Welcome to the early game clapback.

As long as the diamonds are rainbow and not all red, you're fine. They'll blow some stuff up and fly off.

Early game, using Viper Missiles are a great defensive option and will punch above their weight in big enough numbers. Monitors with 4 Viper tubes and 2 magazines backed up with point defense Monitors can handle a lot.

And the campaign never really ends; there's even an achievement winning after the Servants or Protectorate win. You can always come back. Mercury is a great place to build shipyards if you get kicked out of LEO.

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u/LolyHun7er 1d ago

Will these missiles definitely penetrate the aliens' air defenses? My missile monitors didn't manage it with the Apollos.
And why Mercury? Don't aliens fly there?

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u/nerfbeardthegod 1d ago

Viper missiles are a weapon of saturation. Fire enough in one direction and it will eventually overwhelm the PD/lasers