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Montu: There are no threats in this universe also Montu: Aggressively recruits armies

Ah, yes, galactic UAE/Dubai build. No army, spiritualist, monarchist...

Vernox Mandate: We absolutely CANNOT live on anything that moves. Orbital Mechanics: Am I a joke to you?

Wait. You created a fallen empire for the next cycle!

I wish Paradox would do an overhaul of starbases and their modules. Also do some kind of copy&paste thing where you can copy one starbase setup onto another without micromanaging yourself to death.

Conservationist challenge may be fun. No clearing natural blockers, no terraforming non-barren worlds, Ranger Lodges on every world, no using any Megastructures that damage systems like Rings or Dysons. Just tree hugging and loving/respecting the natural worlds across the galaxy

That's literally me every game. I restart until I get decently friendly neighbours, and then I disband my navy. The AI breaks and all of them just guarantee my independence coz I'm too "weak". Then, I just tech rush until I get battleships and then conquer literally everyone in the vicinity.

Technically with mercenary enclaves you are just 'telling' xenos what to do.

"Makes pact with Nurgle" Prays to Slaanesh for an Avatar. Emperor save us from this heresy...

When you accidentally pray to the wrong chaos god and suddenly start vomiting

Everyone watching this video: liking the video Me, a true Montu Plays enjoyer: begins mixing brick and mortar to begin construction of a fortress around that like button as toxic god intended

It's frustrating that star bases don't count towards navy strenght, don't give power projection, don't help you diplomatically. I feel like they should, maybe they should only count half their power or smth, but they should count for something.

when he was talking bout the dark prince i was like... eh... wait? isn't composer is papa nurgle? 30 mins later everything went into right order xD

This works SO MUCH BETTER if you're running Expanded Stellaris traditions mod. Before they even introduced Orbital rings, planetary ascension or buffs to defensive playstyle, you could've built a solid strategy off just you know... building stations and making them extremely hard to kill. Since some of the traditions give massive boosts to weapon range and also defensive/offensive capabilities of your stations and defense platforms.

The composer of strands is nurgle, not slaanesh XD Slaanesh is the instrument of desire

I've done this plenty of times. You want to be hardcore, do it with fortress worlds for chokepoint control instead of star fortresses/citadels. CADIA STANDS!

Love the documentary style, feels a lot like Timelines.

The Perfect Nurgle Playthrough. All hail, The Grandfather His Blessings Fester within us for all Eternity

37:44 Of course you get the agrarian trait immediatly after you've realised that you have to praise Nurgle. You have to garden Grandpa's garden. 😀

You call it a challenge, for me it is just the usual way i play.

17:40 OBJECTION! The Composer of Strands is Nurgal. The Instrument of Desire is Sallenesh. 35:30 Well done. :)

I know Montu does not usually go Psionic, but C'mon... we all know the Instrument was Slanesh and the Composer is Nurgle... heck being Nugle Cultists while looking for the TOXIC god makes just so much more sense as well.

I absolutely adore this new style of video! A story-driven role play centric play through with some unique and fun challenges to boot. I can imagine it was tough to make the video, let alone play this way - but would love to see more. Really creative Montu, keep it up!

"Propulsed by the means of, well, propulsion". I choked on my breakfast, well done.

AI declared the crisis as crisis? But what about whales?

These challenge videos are so cool and I really enjoy the backstories and roleplaying narration you put into them. I hope you continue making these types of videos!

Very impressive style, a triangle of challenge runs, roleplay, and memes, all well-edited and delivered with enthusiasm. Definitely looking forward to checking out more.

Very impressive stuff mate, loving this kind of content. there's a reason you're one of the biggest stellaris names out there 💪

Composer of strands. DNA experimentation. So Nurgle. Thus Toughness. But for some reason you said Slanesh. Sorry that's the prince of pleasure.

If you want something a bit easier and because there is a cap to how powerful a fortress can be. You can always remove the hyperdrive and make your ships only able to move in the one system.

I bought Stellaris 2 days ago after so many years i even remember playing 1.0 Stellaris and IM glad I found your channel! I love this type of challenge videos

Never ever saw anything about Stellaris until today, thank you so freaking much for the experience, subscribed!

this was one of my favorite ones yet, keep it up montu

Mate, you're on a entirely different level recently. Live streams have been gold and this was the best story driven adventure yet. Well done and keep it up.

I love the narrative style of your content, it really fits a game with such long gameplay

The indentured servitude bit made me chuckle. Too close to the truth.

My subterranean terravore crisis rush build uses zero fleets until menacing cruisers. He just relies on his nearly-uninvadable worlds to defend himself until he has enough unity to take Become the Crisis, polish off all the planets he's eaten down to nubs to generate menace, then he starts spitting out menacing corvettes using his insane mineral production.

Looked at some reviews and beginners guides to Stellaris cause it looked really interesting, but your story videos have sold me on the game. The role-playing just seems so fun

I think you need to start as a Scholarium early on, and pump a lot of science into the galaxy, whilst becoming, well, the Galactic Illiminati, controlling things from the shadows. After your "Master" deals with the Crisis, you can then have them release you, and then become Galactic Emperor.

I’m actually glad you reminded me to like, I was so gripped I totally would’ve forgot

I like this roleplaying campaigns, quite fun and entertaining

Awesome play. Love the RPG content too!

The composer of stands is not Slaanesh, that would be the instrument of desire. :)

Isn't composer of the strand are suppose to be Nurgle and not Slaanesh? 35:50 Welp look like he finally realize it lmao

I always play that way^^ Space-Bunkers!

+1 sub Randomly found your channel through this vid. Best 48 minutes I've spent all week. Can't wait to see more of your stuff.

17:40 come one... Slaanesh is the Instrument of Desire not the Composer of Strands

This might even work against any crisis love it

Would love to see more of this

the transition into the advertisement was so smooth i actually watched it

For some reason both the Composer of Strands and Whisperers in the Void both sound exactly like Tzeentch names lol

This is one of my favorite playstyles. I support the Ai as a megacorp, give them resources and try to lead them to victory.

You know what… with the Giga and ACOT mod, this could be alot of fun! So long as your able to early rush and grab a bunch of land, probs help a ton with that fleet lag too

The ending is like the starting setting of Attack on Titan xD WALLS, and threats everywhere outside them.

This is insane, i like it! 👍😄

This is crazey KZfaq through in an advert in the first min of your video in the middle of your sponsorship messeage.

This was magical!

I didn't know defensiveness can be that powerful in vanilla. I imagine millions of organic species falling back into the protected zones and later liberating the galaxy.

Odd request, but any chance you could upload your save file to Google Drive or something? Would be really fun to continue this scenario, even as stagnant as it would be!

No Fleet Challenge: My Average Megacorp Playthrough

The empire being stuck in eternal staganation is about as Nurgle as you can get

Poor Frederic is already clutching his chest in anticipation of the playthrough.

I love the evolution of Vernox propaganda from "theres no logical way to fight galactic wars" to "these other empires have navies, but those seem pointless" to "no other empires have ever existed, what are you talking about"

So that's how stagnant ascendancies are made!

It was so funny, i was doubting the Warp like composer should be nurgle right? But you were so confidently proclaiming your Nation worshipping Slanesh xD you had me convinced

He turned himself in a fallen empire. One day the contengency will die off. And they will remain stagnant empire. And new forms of lifes will reach evolution fase.

Hmm, this is how fallen empires are made

Of course the readied shield would give you troubles XD

I mean, sedentary really fits this empire.

Made me get up and try this on my Xbox. Shame I don’t have overlord yet

Very atmospheric video! Thank you Montu for your content. What mods do you use?

@0:21 "we are going to be the number one without building a single ship..." Me : so no construction ship ? Montu : goddammit.

hmm, what an interesting outcome

I was expecting lots of maginot worlds... but I forgot that's not actually a vanilla mechanic xD well, asteroid artillery would've been pretty fun that game too I'm sure.

easier idea: Go progenitor hive Make a puppy bulwark with lots of fleet power and permission to reintroduce them into the empire, make them loyal and friendly btw with garrisons, etc. Now the funny part. After every war reintroduce them to the empire, then make 1 planet from the rest into another empire. You can this way at end-game have HUGE empires. Just make sure to always fight on the side the bulkwark is on. No planets? Build a habitat, cut off the starbase by demoting it, then while rebuilding it, make it a new sector and create vassal and viola, you have a 1 star vassal.(honestly, you should be able to select sectors anyway, so i don't think this is exploiting, it is just making progenitor more reliable.) So yeah, you can do it in another way.

"The strongest deffence is a swift and decisive offense" -obiwan kenobi

someone make a mod that adds the vernox mandate as a fallen empire, as clearly they survived a galactic cycle they qualify, and give them some custom modifiers that prevent ship building and buff the hell out of starbases.

35:45 Malavites be like: "The moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, I disgusted be. I crave the resilience of that what is rotting. I aspire to the certainty of decay." Turns empire into a scab in the universe. Unscratchable.

Fun fact, Viipuri is an old city the nation of Finland lost to the Soviet Union in the second world war. It's correct Finnish pronounciation is Vee-pu-re where the R is rolled. One can also call it Wyborg, however.

This story would be crazy if this is what happens in universe. Especially calamity.

dude just created a straight fallen empire, without the empire.

And thus a new fallen empire is born, waiting for the next cycle of the galaxy...

Thanks!

Oh, so this is where those Blackstone fortresses came from

I've done a similar play through recently where I got brainslugs as a ravenous hivemind w/ progenitor hive origin and crystal forged plating. I created fleets of destroyers armed with swarmer and marauder missiles, with a hit and run war doctrine. My fortress stations keep the enemy helplessly deadlocked in their advance, whilst my high evasion, stocky destroyers gradually chip away at them. They'll lose battles, but with minimal losses, quickly and easily replaced, while my enemy suffers moderate, to heavy losses. In the end, the whole galaxy works tirelessly, without end to try and destroy me, as I become the crisis, but are unable to do enough damage to my fleets, while suffering horrific losses, with nothing gained. Surprisingly, no colossal ship types have been used against me, beyond what an awakened empire initially brought. It was never able to fire, and I believe my victory is assured so long as none are ever permitted to fire upon my fortress stations.

And now a patch, that give a starbase in a pulsar system more armor then shild because of -100 % to shields.

and they became the next ancient civilization of another game

This is my regular playstyle Tortel

Makes me wonder how lathland was able to keep 25x prethoryn in containment with only starbases.

My allies do this one all the time

Best explanation, They get easily motion sick Making combat on warships impossible

It's like an SF movie. Awesome story telling!

Btw I'm pretty sure the Composer of Strands is Nurgle. Instrument of Desire would be Slaanesh 🙂 Edit: Also, loved that Twilight Imperium shout out with the Sardakk Norr at 22:05

What ship design race is that on the starbases thumbnail?

Navy: See the Space! No babies!

I thought the composer of strands was Nurgle.

The Composer of Strands is actually Nurgle. The Instrument of Desire is Slaanesh.

Would be really cool if there were more modded videos. There are so many amazing mods for stellaris and so few good youtubers out there that could make videos about them.

Montu, calling Composer of Strands aka Nurgle(though with less bacteria and more of weird Dark Eldar experimentation aftertaste) as Slaanesh: tomato, potato \/(-_-)\/