You can then upgrade your ground troops or change their composition using manpower, dust, or various strategics. Go into the military designs screen, and click on the manpower upgrade button in the left sidebar. The earliest pirate bases have about 300 manpower worth of troops. Pirate bases have un-upgraded infantry and cannot Draft to gain more manpower, so they're fairly easy to knock over early-game once you know how. Against Draft, spend a few turns sieging to waste their Reserves, then assault using Manpower modules and Blitz with overwhelming numbers. So if you can't kill 175 Manpower of their troops in 1 turn, you'll be stuck there fighting them infinitely until they run out of Population. Blitz lets you bring an addition 30% Manpower(650 vs 500) and do 10% more damage to the defender.Īgainst Pirates, you can either siege them down to 0 Manpower and invade for an instant win, or bring some troop carriers with Manpower Modules and Blitz them with overwhelming numbers.Īgainst other factions you'll have to worry about the Draft tactic, this lets the defender convert 1 POP to 175 Manpower. Guerilla gives your troops 33% more HP but you do -20% damage to the defender. Pre-emptive does a set amount of damage but reduces your Deployment by 25%, so you do +400 damage but can only field 375 vs 500.

With enough Manpower modules you can change the fight from 500 vs 500 to 1000 vs 500 Manpower.Īlso worth noting is the Invasion tactics.

To win the numbers game, you can add a Manpower module to your ships, this adds both increased Manpower and additional Deployment. Infantry vs Infantry is a pure numbers battle, better if you can tech up to Tanks and switch your ratio to 100% Tanks. At the start of the game you only have access to Infantry, but so will the Pirates.

Manpower is converted into Infantry/Tanks/Air based on the ratio set in your Military screen. Invasion is done by using the Manpower on your ships to assault the Manpower on the ground. Sieging can be increased by using Titanium A2S Modules to give an addition +7 Manpower/turn per module damage. Sieging is done by having combat ships in orbit, this decreases available Manpower by a certain amount per turn. Endless Space 2 will be available on Steam on May 19.Invasion has 2 stages, Sieging and Invading. They weren't in the Explore trailer that was recently unveiled, but they might be part of those other 'X's. This is likely far from the last we'll see of the Unfallen before launch. If you want things done quickly, these are definitely not the guys to go with, because if you lose your home-world, well, you're done. They're good to have on your side, but definitely more of the long term strategy. Basically though, the Unfallen are the support race. The Unfallen were designed in several phases by fans via Games2Gether – each phase reflecting an aspect of the new faction the gameplay, the visuals, and the narrative. The Unfallen are also in synch with nature and have the unique ability to awaken the Guardians, beings that normally lie dormant on planets, which when awoken, provide benefits to their owner and friends, and penalties to their foes. Players of the Unfallen will favor the 'slow and steady' pacifist style of play, rather than rushing out to conquer as quickly as possible – expanding their 'branches' as they go, while seeking symbiosis with the other factions and providing bonuses to their allies. Are we sure they shouldn't look more like bees? To lose their home-world is to lose their entire empire, as the Unfallen must maintain contact with their home-world to survive. The Unfallen civilization was completely designed by the community, utilizes gameplay modeled around a tree metaphor, with their home-world being the trunk, as they slowly expand via their tendrils – colonizing systems that are nearest their home. Amplitude Studios finally revealed the eighth and final major faction for their sci-fi grand strategy game, Endless Space 2, the Unfallen.

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