Next video will be RT while I stew on the fact I lost ships to...that. But it won't be long before TI continues

"You know what, we're going to send the British army into the Republic of Ireland..." Oh good lord... "... to force them into the European Union." There are SO MANY QUESTIONS.

The Initiative: "Sorry, EU, we didn't mean to run Spoils!"; Also The Initiative: "Line must go up!"

Perun: “So basically I’m going to start being very ruthless.” So you’re telling me that you have been nice before all this?

Given that Alexander Faceman has turned to the dark side, petition to rename him Alexander Heelman.

I love how the automatic subtitles call this game Terror and Victor.

Proposed addendum to House Rule: "The board recognizes that it is not in our best interest to advance fusion technology. We also recognize that while unfortunate, we do not control the entire scientific output of humanity. It is therefore decided that if in the unfortunate event fusion technology advances beyond our capabilities and control, we MUST capitalize on the work of others." The Initiative is not allowed to unlock or advance Fusion tech research, but is able to acquire it through trade or hostile takeover/espionage.

Is it REALLY a betrayal by the Protectorate if youi've been acquiring their stations for a steal and selling them as 'fell off a truck, honest' surplus to others? But that was nice to see them put that monster of a battleship to use. They possibly spent more deploying it than you lost.

Perun, in case you did not know, if you control both armies on both sides of the war, they will not fight each other. You can move into the capital and the army will just chill while you occupy the capital.

Favorite line: "Unfortunately, Germany, your presence is causing a really big problem currently...and that is there are messy borders." I am now imagining Initiative Diplomat Perun saying that at an ambassadorial meet-and-greet in Berlin. Also imagining the stark utter diplomatic terror that line would cause.

I'll never forget during the humanity first run when he had the Russian federation invade and incorporate Ukraine and the tag line was "we're not going to talk about it."

The Initiative complaining about "SPACE TOURISM" being chosen as a research priority: 39:34

The Hyrda are about to the horror of the phrase "Monkey see, Monkey do". Thanks for the video.

Oh, I think I finally imagined a house rule. "Dividends": Due to recent budget adjustments, all trades with other factions must include some cash gain, with preference for monthly income over one-time payments.

"Ah after nearly 100 years we finally got the the old euro gang back together it's good to be back... Y'all wanna go stomp on Germany for old times sake?" Lmao

That little bit of opportunism is honestly fantastic to see from the AI. They still can't manage countries properly, but at least it's getting better.

And thus, pherocyte resistance is researched… and the initiative begins its shift from greedy bastards… to the true BBEG of Terra Invicta. Seriously, the initiative are hands down the most evil faction by the end of the game, including the Hydra btw.

I don't know if new rules are still accepted since I haven't seen any for 2 episodes but if so then I have a suggestion: The new black gold - With a new, expensive source of power invented, we must control and monopolize it. Own at least 50% of all antimatter production at all times. I don't know how much antimatter production the AI will build, so this might either be very easy or very difficult.

House Rule Idea - Burned by the protectorate betrayal and the fact that the protectorate have a larger ship than us, the board requires that a battleship be built and maintained that is superior to any other individual vessel in earth orbit. Thanks for the series Perun its really enjoyable to watch!

I don't know why Perun felt so betrayed by Protectorate's attack on his Earth defense fleet? He's already acquired and abandoned some of their space stations and mining facilities.

Two rules I can come up with: 1) The Board is very dissapoited at the loss of profits as a result of British army action in Ireland. To balance the books we must spoil the UK until a 3x (15k) return is realised. 2) Due to recent actions by the Proctectorate, we greatly fear contiued rebuilding of the US military. We should take control of the US Executive and reduce their army sizes or come with a differant way to recude their army numbers such as a conventional war.

1:02:00 Perun, on the other hand, hasn't quite absorbed the Initiative's ethos yet. A former hero, utterly corrupted to the dark side? This is about the time for a proper evil laugh. A nice, throaty "mwahahaha".

suggestion for a new rule: [Ammunition Contracts] Cannot use weapons that do not require resupply on your ships. I'm not fully informed on all the mechanics of this game, but the idea of the Initiative cutting costs by signing exclusive contracts with certain corporations in the military industrial complex certainly fits the rp aspect of this faction

The Phoebe event is a reference to The Expanse btw. Nice easter egg.

Proposed item for the Board: to ease the pressure from upper-middle executive manglement, a minimum of one pip of spoils must be run in every country under control.

This series pulled me in so much, it is hard to wait for next episode. By the way, is there any winning scenario, statring only with Africa?

An interesting set of house rules that came to mind. Since Exodus will eventualy leave the solar system, it would be VERY profitable to sell(loan) all those fancy stations and ground bases to them since Exodus will eventualy just abandon them. At which point we can "re-aquire" them and sell them again at a bargain price for double the profits! Also we should see if we cant help expedite Exodus leaving the solar system so we can profit off of their cow- valiant efforts in seeking new horizons for humanity. 1. If we can sell to Exodus we should because we will eventualy get most of said asset back. (Obviously only if we get a good deal, were not running a charity here) 2. Also because we want our assets back, we should do what we can to help expedite Exodus on their way. (Again, obviously in a way that makes us hard cold cash, not a charity)

You got the acronym for SPAC wrong, because that's clearly a Special Purpose Acquisition Cruiser.

I like it that the AI is actual threat now in space even though it causing you a bit of headache lol

Ah an explosion on Phoebe, glad nothing bad has ever originated from Phoebe in any work of sci-fi ever

Having to run your entire economy for 3 months just to refuel one (1!) of you battleships *once* is some '45-ass fuel management by the protectorate. And *really* funny.

At this point you need to refit the Dolphin with modern tech.

The councillor augmentations are great because a lot of those stats affect your defence against enemy missions. For example, coup attempts are resisted by your average command.

Suggestion to suffer: reduce the amount of countries in the endgame to few megacountries (NA, SA, Eurasian Union, Pan-asia, United Africa). Each zone would have attached CEO and you MUST have control over all of them, leaving nothing to the competition.

Happy to see the initiative embrace the cyberpunk esthetic we all know they were destined to have

"Covered Call" is such an underrated name for the semi-disposable missile boats. limited upside (ammo), substantial downside (loss of vessel), just what Dr. Market ordered lol

After five episodes of opportunistically occupying and re-selling bases from the other factions all over the solar system, the Protectorate jumps two of his unarmed ships... Perun: "So you have chosen...death"

Space tourism sounds like a lucrative deal. We may want to dedicate a platform or two to this venture. Maybe one on Mercury and Mars.

Making space tourism would be the most initiative thing to do

Take away from this episode: don't betray Perun under any circumstance or else you risk getting nuked from Emutopia

Hahs. I love it - a solid tactical move by the protectorate. Taking solid advantage of the situation is such an improvement. I'm holding off on another playthrough for now, but love seeing how much improvement seems to have been made to the AI.

Defensive buildings automatically use the best available laser tech. You don't need to wait for endgame lasers.

Damm i love this series!

Hi, I love your Terra videos, thank you for them.

Idk about house rules, I feel like people make up too many of them and without any RP connection. So I suggest to modify "no welfare" one to "welfare can only be equal to spoils OR lower then economy investment". While Initiative as "organisation"(which it isn't) would benefit most from spoils, they're people, who stayed in power by knowing when to take the foot off the pedal. Plus it's never specified that the members of the Initiative are somehow exempt from having a helping hand in all the contracts that imply said GDP growths.

I find the protectorate much harder to deal with than the servants because at least the servants are predictable. I was recently playing exodus when they sent several nuke equiped ships against my mercury bases while my fleet was at ceres.

Board rule idea, members of the board have recently invested in several (insert weapon group here) production companies, from now on the board would like at all ships to include at least one such weapon

31:50 Oliver Cromwell would rise from the dead seeing the Brits seize Ireland again. The Initiative would have to contain him in time for Christmas sales.

That protectorate stab do show that the AI have some teeth, if you look away.

"You have caused Confusion and Delay" -Chairman Soren van Wyk to Commissioner Kiran Banerjee in a leaked correspondence.

Nice to see that they actually reached the point where human on human space battles are actually a thing that can happen. That alone makes the earlier engines look a lot more valuable to actually get.

I can not wait for the post mortem of this playthrough via power point presentation that we are accustomed to watching every Sunday.

vote for flagship name and official unoffical theme song : The Taxman

Did Russia just move into Catalonia? I can't believe that IRL threat was made real, by Perun of all people.

Remember the Corvina

two front wars. really inconvenient for Germany every time 😂

2:55 "I buy everyone everything that isn't the Loyalty monitor" what is that, you don't monitor every step of your employees even if if they are not clocked in? How very anit-corporate of you

Pherocyte Mastery is a prerequisite for Megafauna Mastery.

Forgive me for saying this, but it is SO entertaining watching you get aggravated at the AI betrayal after being so used to your calm and collected self during all your other gameplay and presentations. Make sure your compensation plan puts them in debt for the rest of their LIVES

So I got over the hate cap and the aliens started attacking my space stations. They kept sending one or two small ships against my layered defence hubs. I got almost 50 exotics until their main fleet finally showed up lol .

The board feels that due to recent employee mental health incidents that employees should now have cybernetic data loss prevention augmentations.

The protectorate is the living embodiment of "they will learn of our peaceful ways by force!"

All laser tech improvements increase ground based defenses. I think you are always going to use the best of the globally researched techs. If you have green lasers, your ground defenses use those, if you research arc lasers, then your ground defenses will upgrade to use green arc lasers

"i think we're going to try mind-controlling the hydra"

What the Protectorate did is unacceptable, if someone creates a debt you get the bailiffs to cease some of their property and sell it to get back loss's. Unlawful destruction of property requires a hostile takeover at this point I think

Perun, your free Guinness privileges have been revoked for sending the British Army into Ireland 😂

I see Britain, I see France, I see the Servant's ___________.

I must say I'm disappointed that the Double Irish with Dutch Sandwich tax avoidance scheme is now nothing but history. Keeping those countries around would've helped greatly in keeping your taxes down.

The Ethereal Caste does not approve of your reverse engineering of pherocytes.

of all the anti-alien factions, the Initiative are the only ones playing the long game

6:00 The most unrealistic moment of this game so far: 1st Guards Tank Army still exists.

Perun: Soren wants to mindcontrol the aliens! Me: Pretty sure Soren wants to mindcontrol humanity...

36:25 I mean, you kind of dared the game to do this didn't you?

I'd love a dlc that let's you play the Hydra.. assuming they could tweak it so it's still a challenge - perhaps the bigger threat is dealing with the demands of Hydra Command than the invasion itself.

Can you counteract missiles with missiles in this game? Like in The Expanse, target their missiles with yours? And can you retarget them mid-flight (which is a separate thing)? Anyway, watching this game kinda makes me wanna play it, but I know I wouldn't have the dedication to learn all the geopolitical (sol-political?) strategy mechanics. I'd love a nice realistic-ish space battle commander simulator though.

I really like that the AI does stuff now, before the patch you would never see them ambush you at a station.

You must build the other super nations, too. Its so satisfying when they merge together, I dont know why that is.

Is space tourism really our most pressing concern? No. Border gore is our pressing concern.

Spain has a 3rd island region and you could've moved the army there while EU was taking the capital.

Would there be any benefit to space fleet composition variety? Two dedicated point defence ships? For every damage dealer? I’m assuming the cost outweigh the benefits? I haven’t made it that far in my own run yet though.

Request that a battleships class be named the "IRS enforcer"

Sometimes instead of councilor investigations, I'll save the game then apply the loyalty monitor to all councilors to determine their loyalty, then reload to before the loyalty monitors were applied. Exploity sure, but I don't have to use councilor missions to do it.

As someone who has not played the game, is it worth it to clean up caucasia and central Asia? Always makes me sad when the borders look incomplete.

I thought one of the goals was to go full Restored Commonwealth. Am I completely misremembering?

I feel like the board of directors would require CIWS on future ships due to the costs of losses

It's not our job to help our rivals liquidate toxic assets to no benefit for us.

I have been reliably informed that that Phoebe event is a reference to The Expanse. Apparently something happens if you go there.

Phoebe Station go boom?? What could go wrong?

the board has decided that the investment and growth of the eurasian union has led to the proper size. it is time for a return on investment (there must be never less than 2 pips of spoils in the eurasian union)

Good rule could be that every celestial body you colonize has to have tourism.

I like Judith, Bannerjee I find incredibly contemptible. Did you ever finish that Servants game? Humanity's fate is surprisingly good, we kinda make the hydra into our puppets it's amusing.

Soren is a visionary

could you do tutorials on nations buildings , habs and stations builds, best tech to rush, best corps, best strategies in each parts of the campain and hate cap?

28:31 Oh you are shedding? Shedding and farting? I will now explain this crappy joke: Shedding sounds like shidding which is what u do on the toilet, farting is also what is done on the toilet.

Mhh, it seems the experimental branch might have some tweaking issues with the AI aggressiveness as some people have been reporting that they don't send assault carriers or do it too late. The very newest version that just dropped (0.3.127) makes them very aggressive instead. EDIT: I also don't understand how you don't get attacked on Mars and Mercury. In my game the aliens are retaliating everywhere. Not just on Earth

I'm enjoying this series so much, I reinstalled the game and intend to give learning it another go. Anyway, any chance of dominions 6 some time in the future? I realize there are only so many hours in a day.

What is the thinking on fission salt water? Your fissiles seem pretty high.

A suggestion for rules We are businessman, not admirals - Can only auto-resolve in all space combats not recorded in the video, and use more auto-resolve instead of fighting the space battle yourself, and no exploit designs for auto-resolve only but ineffective in actual combat (I would try to request all space battles to be auto-resolved, but there are some that are really important or critical ones may cost the run just due to RNG, so the current rule) As leaders of the Initiative, we should be focused on making money and managing our business. There is a reason we hire people to fight our wars.

How do you go about combining the EU and Eurasian Union? I didn't know that was possible

Someone's a little salty for not getting to use fusion? I sense a lot of time spent rationalizing not having it this episode... at least until THAT.