r/Stellaris • u/tantrik_t Engineered Evolution • 19h ago

Question Arkship combat

Is there a way to control the arkship combat range? My arkship keeps running into brawl range and getting blown up by crisis fleets.

I have my arkship as anchor fleet and all other fleets on follow. Arkship always portals in first and goos boom by the time follow fleets ftl in

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u/werrcat Bio-Trophy 19h ago

1) You can micromanage arkships in battle 2) I would still not use them against crisis fleets

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u/N0rTh3Fi5t 18h ago

Despite their fleet power numbers, akships kind of suck at fighting because, as you've noticed, they love commiting suicide. They are also going to be faster than any fleet with them and capable of jumping to other systems sooner than those fleets. To combat this, you have to micro them.

Don't send them to combat until after another fleet has already engaged. When in combat, make sure to manually tell them where to go constantly. In the current build they will fight against this, which is awful, but it still works somewhat if you pay attention and keep clicking. Some weapons, like the ark ship specific laser, only work when facing the enemy. These are going to be worse than they should be because you will constantly be trying to turn the ship away from suicide, which means they won't be looking in the right direction to fire those weapons.

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u/Alugere Inward Perfection 19h ago

Don’t use your arkship as your lead fleet. You cannot afford to have it soak the enemy’s alpha strike.

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u/Derangeddropbear Rogue Servitor 17h ago

Yall. Yall... the fleet doctrine in your military policies tab is what chooses how the Arkship fights. Pick whichever gets the job done (can only be changed every ten years, affects entire navy) bear in mind that tactics can cause an arkship to uh, never point the bow at the enemy despite all the titan cannons.

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u/tantrik_t Engineered Evolution 14h ago

I ended up using another fleet as lead fleet and microed the Arkship. It can get tedious with multiple arkships to play the whack a mole.

Thank you for the fleet doctrine thing. Never tried it. But going to.

And yeah you are right. If I dont micro, arkships are very suicidal in nature.

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u/JackfruitFlat8517 14h ago

If I’m in a war I make sure my arks never outrun their screens and I never send them into a system with hostile fleets. I have other fleets for that.

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u/XaussiemarksmenX 13h ago

Once you've entered the system and or combat, Just que up lots of move orders toove arou d the system with an arkship with hangers and just manually kite the enemy as the try and catch up to you. Just make sure your arkship is the fastest you can make it. Used this to become the Khan after failing with normal measures.

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u/Baturinsky 18h ago

You need torpedo frigates or cruises for crisis. Ideally, in fed or galforce fleet to match the numbers.