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Coppermantis:
Inspired by GUDare's "Disposable Heroes" AAR, I'm doing something similar, but with Spire ships. Specifically, I'm playing a self-set scenario in which the Spire must regroup and rebuild their own empire, the humans having been destroyed long ago. To make matters worse, a faction of Spire traitors has sided with the AI (one AI Type is Spire Hammer, the other is Turtle)

My rules: I cannot unlock any upgrades to human tech or unlock and tech not related to the Spire. This means no triangle ships above mk. I, no starships above mk. I (I did accidentally unlock Mk. II Riots, but supposedly those are based on Spire tech so I'll kinda accept that one). If I get things in Zenith caches or ARS, I'll take those but otherwise I won't use anything the Spire wouldn't have. The human triangle ships will only be used on defense, since it'd be a bit too challenging to only use Spire ships.

I've got some stuff on, most importantly Dyson+Hybrids (Never been able to see this combo in action), Fallen Spire, Medium Golems+Spirecraft (The medium versions I find more fun).


Redoing the actual game with Kieth's Seed.

keith.lamothe:
Interesting :)  I had been kinda thinking about this too. 

It would mean starting over, but if there's a particular combo of bonus types you want from adjacent homeworlds, I can probably find a seed.  Just let me know what map type and what bonus types.  For reference, these are the types the Spireling AI gets:

SpireArmorRotter
SpireBladeSpawner
SpireGravityDrain
SpireGravityRipper
SpireMaw
SpireMiniRam
SpireStealthBattleship
SpireTeleportingLeech
SpireTractorPlatform

The rotter, ripper, teleporting leech, and miniram don't get a lot of love around here, it seems, but some of the others are pretty highly favored (or hated, if the AI draws them).

Coppermantis:
 The one I've got right now is the best one I've found, but if you were to find one with, say, Gravity Drains, Blade Spawners, Leeches and Tractor Platforms that'd be cool. I'm not too far in, so a restart would be alright if such a seed exists.


As far as this game goes, The Scan has revealed a shard on Xil. My Fleet will be more than enough to handle the operation.

keith.lamothe:
Took a while, but found this one: 89607298

With:
Map Type: Simple
Planet Count: 80
Campaign Type: Conquest
Expansions: all three on
Available Ships: Complex
Cloaking, Teleporting, Parasites, Tractor Beams and Swallowers on (the others may be on or not on at your discretion)

It's got Drains, Blade Spawners, Teleporting Leeches, and Tractor Platforms in a connectable fashion.  Up to you if you want to use it :)

Coppermantis:
Sweet, thank you very much. I'll try it out.

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