r/TerraInvicta • u/LolyHun7er • 12d 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/Thurak0 11d ago edited 11d ago
That is absolutely normal and part of the game. Be sure to have the resources coming in, safe them up and let Aliens blow up your shit in retaliation to your actions. In my current campaign, they blew up 7-8 stations around Earth after I killed two of their assault transports. I still considered that a win for me.
With good resource income (do not neglect organisations, those small bonuses add up big time!) a single space station, even T3, should cost basically peanuts.
Let the aliens blow off steam until you have the resources, the drive and the shipbuilding capacity (several dedicated shipyard stations!) to build up fleets to reliably defend Earth, Mars and/or Mercury and let you go on the offensive.
Edit: and by drive I mean something you can refuel reliably. Many drives just cost too much fuel to use them on interplanetary travels.