Making an AI War: Ancient Shadows Trailer - I need your help!

[Wingflier]

I'm making an unofficial trailer for the new expansion and I want it to be awesome, so I need the community's help!

Throughout the short trailer, I will be showcasing short clips of AI brilliance along with great music and short explanations.

Here's how you can help:  Send me your savegames before something epic happens.  Explain to me what the AI is about to do and why it's epic, and I may feature it in my trailer!

Hopefully with the help of the community I can make something great.

Thanks in advance!

[chemical_art]

I got some fallen spire stuff somewhere (may have to re make it), where in sheer magnitude you can't compete, but I worry having a hundred player ships hold off thousands of ai ships may not necessarily show how ai war should be.

[Wingflier]

I'm not looking for footage where the player beats or holds off the AI, I'm looking for footage where the AI does something magnificent and crushes the player.  I think that's what will really attract people and make them laugh.

[Coppermantis]

The problem is that it's hard for the uninitiated to tell what's going on in an AI War video. But I'll try to find some footage of an understandable moment of AI brilliance.

Shame I don't have a backup of this one particularly nasty Hybrid assault. That would have been good. Something good for other people to look for (I haven't experienced it in my games yet) would be the AI using Tractor Platforms or Etherjets to abduct player ships. That's a nice one that gets a lot of people.

[chemical_art]

The life of a lone MK V hunter killer as it trashes everything human?

(wish I had scenario editor)

[Varone]

I have a save where Murdoch is just about to be under attack from an Avenger. That planet also has two nukes, an assortment of ships and resistance fighters that soon join the fight.

At the same time as that the AI has sent two exo waves in a pincer attack on the Homeworld of Suorev, if you do nothing then the AI will overwhelm the planet and win, at the Homeworld is an assortment of Lightning missiles that can be used to turn the tide.

Might be useful to make some footage from that save!

[Wingflier]

Thanks!

[Coppermantis]

I could use the cheats to emulate a large battle between Marauders, Rebels, Humans and AI, unless you want only legit saves.

[Wingflier]

Nope legitimacy doesn't matter! A battle between 4 factions sounds great.

[Coppermantis]

Since the expansion is now released, a friend and I will be playing a game with the new Champion unit in play. I'll give you a save with some nice combat using the champion+Human Fleet to attack an AI Planet instead of a four-way battle, which I could not for the life of me get to be particularly interesting yet seem natural.