I can't figure it out. I started with Advent and within the first 5 minutes I run into a TEC fleet with a battlecruiser. I'm I missing something about being able to start with something greater than a frigate?
I'm sure I've just overlooked something but I can't figure it out. Not enough time has gone on for the TEC to have researched and produced one yet.
If you play on quickstart you'll start out with a capitalship factory, and your first capitalship is free. You should already have a capitalship (for Advent usually start out with a mothership) by that point.
Capital ships do not require research, and the first one of them is free. If you are doing a slow start, you will have to build a capital ship factory first (which is not free), but in the fast start game you do start with a capital ship factory so you can build one right away. They do take supply points, so having one will reduce the size of the rest of your fleet, but in general the payoff is that they start picking up experience levels right away and become increasingly effective as time goes by.
As the TEC, I always start with an Akkan, and take colonization as the first ability. Then I start adding levels of targeting uplink, which happens pretty quickly as I'm knocking off the militia frigates defending the first few planets. You can go a long way in the initial colonization phase using the Akkan and a few frigates and/or corvettes as support ships.
I don't play other factions very often, but I'm guessing the same thing applies to the colonization capital ships for the Advent and Vasari.
Thanks all. The issue I was having was that I had not made the capital ship factory. I guess I had overlooked that option and then never really had the credits for it to light up later during the game.
Appreciate the quick responses, thanks!
You might want to consider playing with quickstart then. You get the capitalship factory for free, and a lot of the strategies here assume you have quickstart on.
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