

Since we can steal enemy ships (and recycle our own to make room for them in the fleet) we recommend that you aggressively replace your small squadron ships with Medium or Large ships that can fulfill the same function. The key use, however, is to build-for-free ships that are better than yours.You can steal something and recycle it for resources.If your population cap (Replicant Count) is not sufficient, the unit is disabled and grayed out but can still be manually targeted for repair or boarded later with a Corsair.

It is basically an instant death ray with a long cooldown.Bases cannot be stolen but just about everything else can, including Small squadrons of ships.The Ulysses offensive setup/configuration has a Boarding ability that is short range but instant and which lets us basically steal enemy ships. The enemy always has an interesting ship you will want, and you have two Boarding options to steal them. If you like failing over and over again even during early "tutorial" missions, then go for hardest difficulty.Īlthough we are told to direct the proper units to counter enemy units, this is inferior advice.If you want to pull your hair out trying to keep all your units alive, then try middle difficulty.Also, if you want every scrap of story, then you will want to collect every Discovery because about a third of them give hints of backstory and can deepen and enrich your story experience.On the other hand, if you stay alert for possibilities the possibilities in a mission are broader and the overall experience could be boringly easy - which nevertheless makes for a certain satisfaction at being "tactically genius".If you are not intent on playing a high difficulty level or thoroughly getting every one of the Discoveries that can be collected, you can try it this way. The missions appear designed for the lowest level of difficulty ("story-focused experience") to be stressful in an exciting way IF you do what they tell you to do and don't take a broader view.Ancient Space is one of those games where you will want to consider carefully whether to be led by the nose and prioritize mission objectives.
