I Actually ERASE Other Empires - Level 4 MENACE! | Ep 4 | Nemesis DLC | Stellaris

greetings sir anserat and welcome back to stellaris with me lathrix and of course welcome back to the lithuanian infiltrators which are now well on their way to becoming the ultimate crisis in today's video our only real goal is to continue to try and get as much menace as possible take over some empires nearby and hopefully we're gonna fix a problem we found out last time which is that sadly if we own an empire because we are a um a tried empire we don't actually get menace points which is a real shame as you can see they don't count as vassals and i don't have a way to vassalize them i can't even integrate them into my empire it makes them essentially worthless except for they give us a little bit of resource but that's very little in comparison to what i wanted so most likely what we're going to do is release them and then go to war with them later to completely consume them from now on we're just going to have to be a lot more destructive or what we could do i don't really want to but we could do something like this swapping out from corporate into something else and the problem here is i can't remove criminal heritage which means for the rest of the game i will be playing with a dead civic which is not exactly what i want we could go more into war though going things like this over here the admiralty of extra fire right and uh i'm sure there's other militaristic options there's lots of different options we can go with which would make us stronger i'm not sure though but this would allow us to have vassals which is a really good way to get menace it's how i wanted to play in the first place but i also like being a criminal we are currently a subversive cult which i love i love this i love having our criminal enterprises on other planets i love the fact that our spies are so much more efficient because of our faster infiltration but hard choices have to be made and speaking of which after looking at the comments it seems like the consensus is kind of split but overall i do think i'm going to go with engineered evolution over the psychic route purely because i don't have the psychic tech yet it might take a very long time and this is just really fun to see how the new clone vats are i've heard very mixed reviews some people saying they are the best thing ever and other people saying they are utterly dreadful so we're gonna find out exactly what that's like so engineered evolution we can now upgrade our people much better and let's see what the clone vats are like now whoa that's a lot of upkeep so 30 upkeep and um 30 food upkeep and two energy but you get monthly organic pop assembly which is rather than growing them you're actually assembling them as well that's huge of course look how slowly we're growing people now because the more populations you have on the planet the more growth progress you need so although we are getting plus 6.88 we need 294.5 to get the next human which isn't the best so yeah the next time we need to add some um housing i'll make sure to build a city district in one of our worlds and then build the clone vats but first let's see if we can upgrade our people so let's remove um yeah let's remove repugnant and what do we really want we don't want uh rapid breeders because we are the necrophage which you just don't want to grow them um extra unity would be good the extra unity and just leave it at that for now because we are generating a lot of unc and i would like to speed that up so for now we are just making them more charismatic and they now produce more unity so that's good make sure not to upgrade these ones which are currently on the arid world and that's gonna take a while but more unity's more unity currently we are war over here and we are doing great oh and before i forget it turns out in the last episode i messed up a little bit so with our ships we have the destroyer and we now have the menacing destroyer and i completely missed the fact until i was editing my god so many comments about this that as you can see here they are using medium armor medium shields whereas a normal destroyer uses small so although there are six of these and only three of these the medium ones are far stronger so a level three shield is giving 215 whereas the small variant also level 3 is giving 85 so yeah the menacing destroyers are a lot better than our game credit for still think the corvettes are the best though absolutely love these and the fact that now with van menes we now have where are you menacing corvette evasion plus 15 and a 50 disengagement chance they're gonna dodge everything and then if they do get destroyed we're most likely getting them back that is phenomenal and of course in the background i'm trying to make as many scandals as possible which is very easy at the moment because our encryption is really good well our code breaking those oh okay yes so we have our habitats now leisure mining trade all the usual gubbins um what do i want to actually what do i want to use these for could use it for population growth um probably not tech maybe maybe minerals we are going to run out of minerals soon i really want to push for more alloys from these worlds so it's a bit preemptive but actually no tried value for now we are after all the tried empire we do have a lot of bonuses for that so let's try and get some more tried value we are lacking in that a bit considering what we are no change of plan it is going to be mineral based the reason is we need minerals now for our ships and our ship upkeep and that's the whole reason why i built this habitat above a mineral reserve so let's keep the theme here's our menace ships oh lovely in some research there stolen from our neighbors wow did we lose anything we lost two menacing corvettes oh you were both in the system but you weren't quite caught up yet wow i was just very lucky that i mean that was planned big brain smart me yes i guess taking all this would be an easy way to get some points but what i'm going to do is this i can take out their star bases my second fleet is coming back and take that our ground forces are basically ready and more scandals speaking of trade value i've done a terrible job collecting it um okay what i'm gonna do is upgrade this to a start hold this will become my new shipyard it'll be nice and easy just to turn this into a new trade value yeah that's what i'll do i'm also getting the tech currently for star fortress one two three four five six yeah this will be most of the world's covered just by the homeworld starbase eventually when i get gateways i can use that to make everything a lot easier you know the enemies have been putting up a decent amount of resistance considering we are using the menacing ships and everything they're not a complete pushover which has been the case in the past so nice to see we retreat for now we will return with our main fleet which is just corvettes really annoying being pushed back that's fine the more ships i destroy the more menace i accrue oh saying that we are losing a lot of health even on that fleet very annoying though honestly i don't mind if this war doesn't end with victory purely because i want to start warring for destruction now this is a vassalization a vassalization i can't speak oh wow yeah their fleets are now terrifying um quickly capture some of these planets please and then we'll run away okay you two join forces me stop making more ships should i just spam the menacing you know what yeah let's have some menacing destroyers as well being formed construction that'll be fantastic more minerals turns out yep we really do want those minerals there we are i am now also on the galactic council i have almost no care about what's going on right now but i'm on it at some point i will oh oh i love that actually shows all the active modifiers here now it didn't do that before right right i'm correct right either way that is fantastic i know that you can yeah the custodian look at that the security sorry the scrutiny of a custodian ship would expose our plans for the galaxy so we can't actually have this but this is what i'm going to go for in a future play-through most likely a full play-through so a one-episode special where i try and become the custodian aka the emperor you know for the greater good in this case we're not even pretending we are so delightfully vile make sure to put all that claims down so i'm going to be grabbing this world as well beautiful so yeah so this will be our status quo we'll grab all of this and normally not that system which is going to look terrible but i just can't afford it so yeah with that i will accept status quo lovely you guys get back and heal up and get reinforced and then we're going to go to war with the alliance over here who we have been butting head which on this oh my god they are actually equivalent to us yep i am now remembering that although we are using the scaling difficulty which starts off easier than gets harder um we are also on max difficulty on top of that so their bonuses now are really really really showing and they're becoming terrifying though now we're not at war we can start building our criminal empire once again okay what gives it the most smuggler's port is only plus 50 i believe when it comes to crime disinformation center um everything else is yeah tops are 40 then sort of wants extra naive capacity is nice for us extra unity for us is great that doesn't even produce crime just energy yeah let's go for just energy and then some minerals i guess no on the 40 so yeah probably a little bit of research that's what we're going with we have loads of alloys now that we're using minerals for everything uh all navy yeah it's look go research there we go three of those should prop up crime a lot even though they have six enforcers ah no i might not be able to bring crime here oh no someone is about to open up the l cluster well do we have any oh no we have an algae in our systems oh turn on the starboard now we have two hell gates oh poop i didn't even consider this as a possibility um yeah can you just grab those please and you uh go over here i've like missed a million resources that would be fantastic well i'm gonna focus on protecting myself now for a little while kind of wish i went with what i was going for originally which was eternal vigilance but we are getting there with prosperity so i'll grab that next to try and protect myself in case one of the bad one of the very very bad events which are possible with the el gates please don't be a bad of it please don't be that i think if it's the great tempest i might just lose i've never lost to the great tempest before altering the humans they are no longer unruly but are now also able to get us more minerals well done humans a crisis has emerged hello there little parrot of death that's gonna be fun to watch but over here as well nice and far away from me so you have fun i kind of skipped over what this exactly is so this is the great khan this is wrong way this is there we are one of the marauder clans waking up good luck to you there's anything you can do to do with that probably i think i think you can make it a focus there we are focus the great khan but i don't care obviously i just really really don't you can tell the last few days has been really tough in real life on me because i am my brain just no no online yeah so we have all these fellows here who i completely forgot existed who just took over the worlds and guess what your food no you're not food you're gonna be necrophaged gonna be us isn't that wonderful yeah it is it's great i also just built my first clone vac like i remember where i built it i remember being like aha i can show this off and then i don't have a clue where it is i know it's one of the world's other is about to be built excellent me smart if you're wondering why i'm not currently going to war it's because i i've decided that this empire here actually is fantastic for me just because of wealth generation although i won't get the hundred percent from everything i am getting quite a lot of energy from all these worlds which is lovely and very on theme they're also fantastic for the espionage because i have all these really good um assets here and everything so i am being able to get a lot of points just from spamming these which is great but also i do have peace treaties currently of everyone because we've been at war so much recently i think what i should really do is release these fellows since i think when you release them you do have a uh yeah truce for a while so let's say release you excellent so just released you and yeah i can't declare war for another almost 10 years so i really should just release them they are giving me some of their energy but i am rich and i'd rather get that cooldown started so i can go to war nice and soon there we are so there's the clone vats going off with the clone vats here which just cost us more fortune but it is creating new life so i've left these at least purely because i do need at least one species which can have the tundra or at least the ice worlds so i am going to leave you as indentured servitude there we are all well and good and you can grow on the new worlds we've captured we also have to have the livestock still because these produce minerals so i'm also happily growing the lithoids ah that's a shame so it looks like yeah the growth progress is affected by all the same things as the normal um species so it's still 307 to produce them that's a shame but you know that's all right just an extra three per month that's very strong but very expensive i don't know if they live up to the hype some people had for them who told me about them but they do seem good i think i think i have to test them more that's what it's going to be it's going to be a matter of testing the more and then i'll come to my uh better understanding i'm sure maybe potentially what is this crisis beacon lure a crisis faction fleet towards the capital we can move the horde towards the capital of our choosing if we can get it to work they say that to escape any rampaging beast you don't need to outrun it just whoever you're with a few tempting lures towards our target capital ought to help too interesting very interesting it's provocation and technology well we have a tech asset over here oh that's a lot of energy is going to cost but i mean we have to find out i was gonna i was just about to do the arm privateers one since i want to see what that does but i care about this so much more begin the process maybe i can arm privateers over here to annoy you oh i can't yet afford it that's a shame how about you good enough though we have no leaders which are good with that uh let's try and get some more assets we don't really have enough here to to reliably do anything yeah same with you um now i do realize i am basically bringing the enemy towards us by doing this but i mean i've just i've got to i just have to how can i not oh the truce isn't okay so i've been a bit of an idiot i'm sure some of you are pointing this out it turns out um some of the truces had already worn off but i was just waiting around doing nothing because i still have branch offices there as well i i knew that was a problem i just didn't see everything else drop i do kind of dislike that um i don't see why i would need to close branch offices if i wanted to go to war as the criminals i really don't but sure i guess it is our people is that all of yours yes it is okay uh so this is gonna be wipe them out so i want the fleet in fighting position first not more sanctions they keep on voting sanctions gonna be really annoying to be in breach of them galactic law soon so do i really want eternal vigilance so eternal vigilance um the second level of engineered evolutions that's two then we are probably going to want i mean voidborn would be cool but i think galactic wonders or arcology project those three i think are going to be necessary we are going to really try and um high roll the light game here so i do think we are going to grab eternal vigilance because we have so many choke points to try and defend and i yeah we're going to need to be very defensive when the whole galaxy starts hating us soon so i think that's the right call uh it's a lot of investment into star bases but i think it's worth it now speaking of which yeah it needs a new trip one here well we're going to kill them soon enough so the older choke points are going to be moved as we start to actually invite other people again my original plan was to say to stay small and evil and vassalize but it doesn't seem to be the y i'm just loving having criminal heritage even if it's not the best civic and i'm gonna have to swap aren't i i don't want to though i like megacorps our population growth is so slow now yeah they've all got that 314 ticks to actually get um a new pop i don't know how i feel about the new population growth system i really don't i think i like it but i wish it was explained a bit more in game um i was making a lot of wrong assumptions earlier and that's why i didn't really talk about it much and i'm still talking about it now so not going to pretend to fully fully understand it what i need to do is watch one of icebeck's videos or something to actually uh fully understand but i don't like that i like to get my information from the games itself it's just how i kind of learn i don't learn very well from people telling me how things work or um lectures and such it was the same wine university that's why that's why i've got like three awards for practical work because i am bloody good with poisons i mean biological stuff but um i struggled in the uh in other aspects especially early on i got better over time but yeah the whole point i'm trying to say is i learn a lot better from doing rather than being taught this empire's declaring war on me as well i'm not too scared since our major star fortress is about to go up so that's fine so then going to war to wipe them out i'm assuming this is going to be the exact same as if you have a colossus so we just take everything as we go yeah the active war goal is um insane so who exactly are at war with right now i'll preach everyone again uh we're also at war with the confederation that's over there and the states okay good so they all are attacking from the same side i don't have a starbucks up here yet do i oh no well i'm done uh just rush them uh obliterate their fleets this starbase will be up soon i have too many starbucks because it's costing a fortune but i need them all is the problem okay get out the capital excellent despite their recent attempts at unity the horde have proven an uncomplicated prey to bait in anger our team worked hard to antagonize one and brawl in particular whose boiling range is now being directed at fast and light speeds towards their capital fantastic i should get more menace per one of these but there we go so now apparently one of their fleets is going right for this capital weakening a potential future hostile construction venture completed wait did we just destroy the starbase we're not taking it over we are actually destroying it oh my god that's brutal yes that is what i wanted to see today i've had a bad few weeks now let's make their whole lives suffer didn't expect it to be actually destroy a starbucks oh my god i'm obliterating them from existence oh yeah destroy starbucks it's an objective i was a little bit confused about that i just thought um if you get a colossus that becomes oh that is wonderful that is so good guys take it therefore oh no their fleets are trying to um go over here that's really annoying but uh we'll just destroy a thing on the y and i'll start making stuff in the background to defend yeah give me loads of minerals and then loads of menacing corvettes they can rush there really quickly they are super fast and now it takes 14 days to make one at the moment oh i love this dlc if you don't mind me lads just uh barging on through oh i can't that's so annoying because this is a nebula i can't go in there my scanners can't recognize it that is really irritating science vessel move there's their 4k fleet there was their 4k fleet our economy isn't looking great right now partially because of our star bases we have too many of them they're costing me a fortune because of it plus 100 upkeep i might just need to sacrifice some of these elegate ones um they haven't opened the l gate yet and i'll just have to yeah i'm just gonna have to hope boop just i'm gonna have to hope that uh we're gonna be strong enough to deal with them if they arrive simple as that the first enemy empire has submitted to the horde still haven't seen the enemy's fleet yet though which is kind of annoying i'm hoping it gets there i guess it is quite far away there's a there is a chance it just dies on the way all over here we are just taking out system after system no once again not allowed in there bad good uh the science vessel managed to um grab a few of these systems but then got killed by a fleet it was a fleet there but athletes are about to make it there's our reinforcements don't think i will be able to completely destroy them this run because i was completely unaware of the whole uh nebula problem being here but we are gonna really hurt them i mean they're gonna be oh no they got the station back when they do that oh i guess the station does reappear because there's a world above it so in that case now i can just go from world to world that's fine oh hidden world fantastic that's a lovely arc archaeology event archaeology there we go the world is now under my control uh once again it's an alpine world soon though i will be able to change my my main species so that i can actually inhabit these worlds still then for now necrophage actually can i do that yet oh i can fantastic so uh once i am done with this i can it's a lot of uh it's very tedious but i can go ahead and micromanage every world so that all of the la fear on those worlds are the correct type kind of wish i went with turning everyone into cyborgs or something now because that'd be easier but hey ho oh i was not paying attention i'm about to lose a lot of my fleet remember these were equivalent to us in the first place yeah sure whatever oh that's not good that's not good at all more corvettes i can now make a battleships which are very blocky and they are carriers in fact i'm going to double that oh that looks better with the extra blue there we are so behind on tech when the actual end game crisis gets here i may be doomed it's been really different playing with this um new patch i'm having to relearn a lot i think i'm a bit behind because of this is some more gas oh we just ran out of gas as well so that was a good call to look at that there we are so we start using our alloys and actually get some proper fleets together than just corvette spam speaking of which there you are yeah they're heading towards us anyway in that case just keep on finishing off everything you can oh i am a dum-dum uh again my brain at the moment is just offlining so thankfully with the necrophage if you necrophage on the world for instance which is alpine your new um necrophage populations will have that preference so i don't have to do any micromanaging at all we just have lithia now already here sadly repugnant looks like they're going with one of the older designs um i'll fix that but that's great so we're instantly getting them working right now our economy is in shambles because we have worlds which are costing us a lot and not giving us anything until the necrophaging process is finished also i am grabbing a lot of these debris and uh yeah well the bits of debris i should say and we are getting quite a lot of free research out of it so i'm very happy with that indeed okay can all of you move here please and i'll split you all up in a second but this is great there's a 7k fleet moving around somewhere here so i'm just getting this little fleece to move here and just destroy these little starbases the major fleet is on its way now with the battleships over here we're just slowly destroying things oh one more world fantastic let's make sure it's all going according to plan yes it is lots of halls of ju i've just realized me putting down those corporate facilities is why they built all the halls of judgments which is why they have so many armies i literally made it more difficult for myself oh my god always cost gas as well oh um don't know what to do about that we need the tech so we can start actually producing um gas and everything currently alloys and volatile moats and a little bit darker matter is what's floating our economy uh it's not looking good it will be better though uh once these worlds up and running and what i can do is start converting them to start producing what we actually want so yeah that's the plan at least what do i want though i'm not actually looking for something specific i was looking at this and hoping for something yeah i think we need more industrial districts just more mining districts just more base resources and then more tech as well but uh we'll see once all the other worlds start balancing out most of the worlds over here now have fell to our might was starting to build up to starbases to remove some of this border gore oh looks like about to see what happens when they take out of our stations well maybe not i think my fleet is going to make it in time this fleet's almost faded but fine as well uh god we have so many down here um all the bits of tech we've stolen i need to finish those off again learning a lot at the moment this will be one more world how close are we to the crisis whoa we have got really close from this well we have destroyed a lot of ships we have assimilated a lot of people and we have destroyed everything oh okay so this was actually the um become the crisis event let's read this fuel from another world there is no longer any doubt that the very act of successfully expanding our empire is infused with the strange energies of the shroud energies that boost and hone both mind and matter in our reality if these are effects the shroud can bestow while still separated from our reality then imagine what god-like potential the latter species could gain if the two dimensions were merged i'm thinking very good things yes the hidden world is finished so we can now get the oracle hello oracle how you doing extra admin cap would be fantastic um but you know what i really really want that governor it's such a good governor so we now have the oracle i do apologize for skipping all this there's so much other stuff to go through yeah look at that 20 extra unity less crime plus 10 stability although it is minus 10 on all research the extra stability actually makes up for that by itself so you don't really see a drop in tech you just see that kind of staying stagnant because everything else will go up look suddenly all of our resources are gonna look yeah just utterly magnificent really need to focus on consumer goods now i'm tempted to to swap our trade policy to consumer benefits uh might do that we'll see balancing our worlds really has to wait though until this war is over and we have won it i missed having strike craft there we are and with that we can start bombarding the worlds now the thing is we do actually have access to a new type of bombardment which is the armageddon bombardment which can actually kill the entire world but we are going to get more points by riding instead stealing the people to weaken the armies since since the most my armies are over here actually i don't really need them over here anymore do i um yeah make your way oof like how can you interesting can i also oh i must have discovered enough of it wait that's the nebula though i don't understand this anymore either way let's uh take over everything oh you might go away now so the what is here and that's terrifying thankfully we do have our star bases which are looking pretty ferocious and now i'm going to build lots and lots and lots and lots of defense platforms since when my alloys suddenly vanished i'm hoping these are the final worlds they have because i'm about to take them over um yeah uh that's it really hopefully we can destroy the alliance uh the other enemies about to attack us but but my main fleet is moving in to defend and i'll be fine i'll just lose like one station i think this is actually remarkably difficult the prime sovereignty a great change is coming the latherian infiltrators is on the verge of realizing our supreme goal each and every lafayette feel it within every fiber of our being our destiny is at hand our experience now the our very history of forceful expansion still rewards us with new ways to subjugate our enemies and usurp control of a galaxy and turmoil surely those who dare stand against us must see the futility of their whimpering efforts one after another they will yield so we are now a level four menace only one left there is another full 5 000 to get there so what do we get we get the new menacing cruiser we get ship weapon damage plus 50 percent okay well that is insane and we get loads more tracking on the destroyers but seriously 50 extra ship damage that's insanely good whoa yeah that is that is something beautiful that is something truly truly beautiful so let's have a quick look see them at our new cruises proper marauder there look made mostly of rock i only got one version sadly not with um not with strike craft but still very nice so these are all mediums these are also mediums you get six of those versus the normal cruisers eight this time i'm definitely checking twice yep you get one large weapon two mediums and two smalls this time around i don't think the difference is too extreme but of course once again they are made of minerals which is fantastic and it seems like the new ones uh these also do come with um more hull points by default and they're super super super super cheap like much cheaper than their cruiser equivalent very cool can't wait to see the battleships i'm assuming ooh actually no need the other ground forces to get there first before i can invite that because they still have an army uh just swap over to armageddon just plaster it with explosives the great khan has failed but they have been massively successful in their lifetime well done of course you can't get past our um our citadels they are now very very powerful but they aren't actually citadels yet but call themselves okay oh no a fleet just got there that is so irritating okay you're doing this you're going to defend that's fine it's going to be a very minor nuisance bombard faster oh good you've what if i've done the job invasion go here's hoping that's our last world which will annihilate them we'll lose if we're we'll lose out on a little bit of menace because we're not going to take out these stations individually but this should be it there we are the end of the alliance the horde and the alliance here fighting that's that's interesting okay so destroy worlds we haven't done yet oh armageddon barbarian will give you the hundred there okay conquering is still better though but um if i ever just want to bombard worlds i can destroy empires you get 100. it's not much but it's a nice little extra on top of everything else why are your fleet still here oh it's not your fleet it's the federate the confederations fleets okay you need to get rid of all you then as soon as possible you heal up you just continue grabbing every system you can same with you right now i'm not actually building any of the mining stations and such i'm just grabbing everything any chance i can status quo some of these okay not this one just yet though because i do want to finish off that so this is the one i was just doing the destroy okay i'm going to scroll that to finish that off yeah because i want to focus on other wars for now don't want to status quo this one just yet otherwise i'll lose some systems and this one i think i can safely ignore as well yep so these wars are kind of useless to us because i can't destroy their stations and everything will take over their worlds so i don't want to be in them in those wars i want to be the aggressor so i can activate the whole i will destroy everything so if we're not doing that then there's no hahaha and everyone is upset well he's time upset anyway look we need more resources just desperately to keep the economy going i had to sell all of the relics i got from the events over here which was such a shame and that was the last of them just then yeah it's it's gonna take a while before we back on our feet completely we're still more than capable of warring we have all our ships ready just everything's so expensive oh the horde splinters okay that's great absolutely great so they're no longer a major threat then let's go to these now we can stop this war we lost a lot of ships but that should yeah last status quo and we're okay to do that yep good let's get you home shall we okay for once in a very long time we are at peace now i can focus on getting everything back in order then we will most likely go to war again in the meantime though i'm gonna spend all this influence i've been saving up for this very purpose so i can grab all of these systems because there are so so many of them now up for grabs and that's a lot of resources in space lots of minerals lots of energy research all stuff i desperately need yeah we have two um construction ships over there we have two over here we could send a third you know what yep that's exactly what i'm gonna do just to make sure we get as much as possible so much has happened the infiltrators are now just devouring um so with that i'm afraid i am all out of time for today's video that was incredibly stressful we just about managed to get through it and now it's looking like true war is our main goal we are definitely going to get to the maximum menace before we kill everyone which is great for us i was actually a little bit concerned about that but yet we are already at uh 5.5 yeah almost at 5.5 000 which is fantastic we now have galactic nemesis and we're about to reach existential threat which is less some ship upkeep our minis and cruisers have more hull points we can get the star eater and i think yet we can rip apart the barriers that exist between this world and the shroud so if you have enjoyed today's video then of course likes favorite shares comments all that good stuff helps out me helps out the channel and most importantly shows that stellaris is a series you wish to see continued in the future in the next episode just more glorious warfare and expanding in a really interesting way thank you for watching have a lovely day do take care goodbye

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Published: Tue Apr 27 2021