So many great ablative rookie names here, I mean Mace Window!!! Fire still a little too friendly 😮🙏🏾

Epic jump scare when that reaper ate laser overwatch. Well played!! 💪🏾⚡️🎖

Thanks for playing hurt to get this one out! Take care of yourself 💪🏾🙏🏾

You can dodge a lot of the shots in air combat by flying perpendicular to the incoming fire. You don't need to rely on rolls so heavily and it's costing a lot of hp on the interceptors. You have plenty of ammo with this many interceptors, so when the UFO turns to target one of them, have that one fly at an angle to the UFO while the others insert hot lead.

Hey, stumbled across your playthrough without ever having heard of this game and now I’m 13+ videos deep. Good stuff, enjoy your play

In current state where one can build 25-55 point class-2-3 hybrids that are hard to defeat with kinetic projectile hardkills and they not get fooled so easily by decoys and jammers with secondary validators - I think putting on ANS ships Auroras is the only way to go. Yes, they are expensive, yes, they draw a lot of power, but at missile volley you want to dedicate all power solely to survive, also ship hulls not allow to use all of them at the same time, some get destroyed at some point in game or overburned via battleshort. Therefore, one needs to build for redundancy. I put all small point defenses slots only with Auroras, and see how many can operate from one side of the ship, like: left, right, top, buttom, bow, stern - and make sure I've enough energy to operate all per side (not all of them at once). Typically having 3 per side is nice with bshort, and having 4-5 active at the same time is very good. Ship will re-orient power to the one that it feels it needs to most - again, not all needs to run at all times. Auroras, may not get all of them but at least they will certainly shot down what they aim at, while other defenses uses points but don't give you so much guarantee, so I argue that its rather to invest more points on something that works, then still a lot of points on something that is situational and random. In the end, the goal is to survive, even if it costs you other nice things to have, which makes no difference if you bring them and you're dead. Also, negating missiles is also something worth a lot of points, because that negates other fleet effectiveness, if they invested small numbers in missiles they will be completely negated, if large, they could be negated enough to render them useless in anything else later on - like hand to hand combat. Longer one survive the less PD importance become, and that power draw won't be necessary anymore once most if not all missiles are used. I.e. for solo Axford put 8 Auroras, for two put 3-4 on each, for 3xDD put 2-3 on each, for 2xDD put 3-4. For 5-6 FF put 1x Aurora on each, select one side only top or only buttom, and re-orient fleet as need be when expecting missile barage. 24-slot bay for chaff and decoys could be usefull on opposite side of the ship, like if you use one Axford and you mostly put yourself bow head on the enemy then you could use bottom-back mount for chaff and decoys. If you have 3xDD and you put mostly on left-right and top Auroras - then you can add chaff/decoy to bottom or if you use left-right and bottom Auroras, then you can put chaff/decoy on the top. Other PD's don't make sense if you have access to Auroras IMO. At lease one radio jammer should be in every fleet, which can be used also for missile defense.

oh man these Nebulous videos are top notch !!! the game is amazing but adding a campaign to it, actual stakes... Oh man !!!

Really loving this series, can't imagine the effort going into programming/creating these missions with all the triggers for enemy action, voicelines, etc... Kinda reminds me of when I dabbled with map making as a kid in Warcraft 3 and Operation Flashpoint!

I suspect a second ground team is a good way to LOOSE the air fight which is honestly far more important - you can win using very few ground missions. A decent ground team is a MASSIVE investment once you add up all the expenses. Yes, you'll end up not being able to do ground combat on a few downed scouts but that's far better than getting completely overwhelmed by their air power which would be the result.

IIRC in X1 you needed 4 AA batteries to garantee that a base wouldn't get invaded. I had a few dedicated airbases with 2-4 hangers and 4 AA, it's a cheapish way to keep the continents happy. I never lost them, but the enemy rarely attacked them either.

Hopefully your illness and its effects fade quickly. Good job on the mission

I believe the reason that the shoot down of the first destroyer happened may be the missile battery finishing off the ship as Griffen left.

Still feels like your getting too aggressive and ahead of yourself again. I'd really suggest trying to reel it back to how you were handling missions and maybe even dogfights in the early game where it was more calm, collected, observant and well thought out. Your going too fast and it's getting you into bad situations that could have been avoided...bad situations that are costing you greatly and your lucky to have only lost so much as you did. Aside from that though? Great stuff still and I always look forward to this series as well as get excited when I see a new episode pop up. Hopefully you feel better soon and I know the illness is part of what's making you make those decisions, but I figured a reminder might help and not be uncalled for.

That retreating thing with the intercepting jets looks like a bug at first glance, or some user interface elements that need some polish - the combat didn't seem to last that long at all.

Big Voice to Monkeybeird: FINISH HIM! T Rem - forever in our heists 😢

Poor pilots. “Okay griffin 3, we’re gonna need you to pull a high gee turn with afterburner on to catch that ufo”

I bet the destroyer went down either to the very last bullet ricochet into something important at the last second or bird strike as the jets were leaving. Either way they took credit for it.

Get Better Soon Phros :) i'd really like to know what killed the alien at the beginning of the map. (Was it the dead civvie?)

Get well soon! :)

Thanks for putting out a vid while you're sick and hope you feel better soon.

Maybe having a 2nd team in NA would be a decent idea. You had some concerns on whether Danny Boy could reach Greenland and Miami several episodes ago and a second team there can handle those areas and Eastern Asia. That would give you more flexibility in the western hemisphere, while the Africa Corp can work with Europe and Western Asia. Australia would be kinda left out but I have faith they can handle their own backyard. They can also serve as a base defense as that base will be a money maker and as the secondary fabricator. For aircraft names: North America - Thunderbird (Attack Craft) | Moth Man (Skyranger) Asia - Tengu (Attack Craft) | Chollima (Skyranger) South America - Alicanto

hopefully you're through the worst of it and getting better look after yourself Phrosphor

Jet fighter: broadsword, Red Eagles, Red Feather, Whisper. Rover names: Johnny five, Jeff, don't make me a target, fire and forget.

Those news reports on the geoscape are starting to look pretty grim. Airliners and Coast Guard helicopters shot down, fishing fleets being sunk. With the aliens' influence over the leadership of world governments I wonder how much the average person knows what's going on.

What excellent timing, I just finished the last episode on this playthrough.

Awesome thanks man really cool.

The next Kane must clearly be Tiberium

Hope you get well soon, well played!

Using reinforced hull as armor really does have that problem of constantly being set on fire. I never liked that tactic, personally I think the game is balanced extremely well to where you at least need *some* armor for a real brawling corvette or frigate, but armoring the whole thing requires either building a full blown cruiser or being reliant on support ships for range and utility.

The little panic-spike news reports are rather brutal. Public park attacked, estimated 102 killed. Fun times. Guess we're not keeping the aliens secret in this one. As always, spoilers and edits lie below. Except not really on the edits, since KZfaq is being mad at me today and this is all copy/pasted from a Word document. Oh there's more. A helicopter got taken down, 5 crew gone. A fishing fleet got sunk, 100 lost at sea. A plane got shot down, 300 dead. 500+ in the first 150 seconds of video.Might be time to get some more interceptors going. In addition to better shields, don’t you have better armor to start making? Looks like the planes ran out of combat fuel Highfleet-style, but kept shooting while they disengaged and took the UFO down last-minute. 7:45 They get a debuff to you hitting them, not a buff to their accuracy. Stealth! 12:08 Probably flashbang first, then smoke grenade if that’s what your doing - prevents reaction fire and means you’re not trying to throw a flashbang into smoke. Also not sure how well a flashbang would even work in smoke, realistically. Probably fine, they’re bright. 18:20 … is it really XCOM-like if your soldiers aren’t a disgrace to human marksmanship? 21:10 You were talking about armor and shields earlier, I think we found the unit that needs it most 25:40 One mentarch for multiple legally-distinct-Chryssalids is not a trade I would make voluntarily 31:45 love how 99% health and 10% health are both color-coded as yellow like they’re equivalent. 35:01 having ground teams at all your bases also means having base-defense squads at all your bases, and means you can deal with multiple things at once, and means you can multiple options if and when getting your dropships shot down becomes a thing.

i think making other base to have another squad is good idea.

you definitely need more money, going for the research that gives money is definitely the way to go. Considering you need said money to furbish the base and buy aircrafts and gears for your soldiers

4:55 this is the definition of "fine. this is fine" -.- Why did you use afterburner, which burns through fuel much fast than usual? Why put the center plane on the side instead of letting it sit in the middle? (also, why not use the big buttons for automatic deployment strategies, on the top left?) Also, why letting your planes fly this far out instead of letting the ufo come closer to your base and the intercepting? Lastly, AA batteries? Seriously? I dont think ive ever seen anyone actually liking them... edit - at least your tactical game is solid (:

Don’t worry about us, take all the time to recover you need! Glad to hear you are feeling better, I have been looking forward to some more Xenonauts 2!

For Shred base there is only one suggestion - Blender Squad

I hope you continue to mend well. Looking forward to when streaming can resume. No hurry. <3

Phrosphor Winfrey: You get a jetpack! You get a jetpack! Everyone gets a jetpack! 😅💪🏾

I've got some questions: 1. Would you do a mostly carrier campaign 2. Is there any value in making one Super carrier rather than alot of smaller ones? 3. Will you ever make a super carrier?

Ahhh jetpack armor, finally safe from the chrysalids 😅

Damn you, sir. I had family on the Sapphire.

That was super rough going back to early game units and gear in the mid-late game. Could’ve been worse! 💪🏾

I'm starting to think lex is not a front liner, maybe more of a backline all-rounder/offtank? Cause he can jump in front for no damage

Alien hover tank a lelek 😂

may want to use some of the threaties to lvl up some of the lower lvls char or you support squads as they are falling out faster.

For music in terra Invicta i think id grab othwr games soundtracks such as stellaris, ftl and maybe xenonauts sinc that's got some killer vibes. Plague inc could also work