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That's the key difference - by forcing you to take the fight as a series of battles where you're facing even numbers of ships, the game forces you to have some substantial attrition rather than none. 7) with an opposing fleet, and then bringing a second fleet of 7 ships in to replace the battered remnants of your first fleet, and beat the opponent's similarly battered remnants - but what you can't do (without being very far ahead in technology) is combine those two 7-ship fleets into a 14-ship monster that just annihilates the opposing fleet with almost no losses on your side. It's a fixed count of command points, and thus, you can get a modest advantage by bringing one fleet, fighting an even battle (say, 7 vs. The limit that Amplitude has put in is that the number of ships that can participate in a battle is limited by your available technologies. (History geeks might notice that this sounds awfully similar to how the mongols were able to repeatedly defeat militaries that, on paper, were much larger than their own.) If you really could have 'your entire military, period' duke it out in a single battle, that would be the ideal strategy, and the vaulters would be unstoppable if they got ahead in a game, because no opponent would be able to deploy their forces fast enough to defend against their attacks - in order to have fleets able to catch the vaulters and stop them from attacking, the opponent would need to have not merely a fleet of comparable size - but multiple fleets of comparable size, each defending whatever areas of the empire they can reach within a single turn. Amplitude rightly deserves some credit for partly fixing a common problem in 4x games (such as earlier iterations of the Civ series, as well as the current version of Stellaris), which is derisively known as the 'doom stack'. This act of 'force concentration' thankfully has some limits.

In the very late game, vaulters can even temporarily set up the Argosy into a 'portal mode', allowing them to perform the same trick offensively.

If the vaulters are attacked, they can always immediately move all of their fleets to the system being attacked, and therefore, (ideally) outnumber their opponents in that fight. There's a classic military-tactics story: 'How can 10 men beat 100 men? By fighting them one at a time, 10-versus-1.' At least defensively, Vaulters are always able to bring their entire fleet power to bear on any single system. Essentially it's like having all of your systems connected by wormholes.ДЇorce concentration, therefore, is one of their greatest strengths. The special ability, though, is an insane ability, available from the start of the game, to build a relatively inexpensive 'portal' building on owned systems, and from then on, to be able to transport any military or pop-transport ships from any system to any other. Vaulters actually have above-average mobility on their ships, on top of their special ability. Their heroes also have ground-defense oriented skills.ДЇurthermore, as covered in the section below, they're uniquely able to always rush their fleets to defend against an attack. This is due to a combination of getting slightly-better-than-average generic defensive buildings, potentially getting a bonus one as a quest reward, and having both of their default population types give significant defensive bonuses against ground invasions. The Vaulters are arguably one of the best defensive factions, along with others like the Unfallen and Hissho. It also means that if you want to double-down on trying to achieve a science victory, you've got some bonuses leaning in that direction. The upside of this is that science is something you generally don't have to worry about - it will accumulate on its own. Their default population and collections give bonus science they've got a few quest rewards that give bonus science, and their heroes also give bonuses to science gain. The Vaulters have some moderate bonuses to science gain. They will struggle to get a 'conquest' victory by settlement (unlike most factions), and must instead follow its namesake and actually conquer that large set of systems if they want to pursue that victory type. owning a certain significant percentage of systems in the galaxy). The vaulters have some slight perqs nudging them towards a science victory, and are reasonably good for most victory conditions except 'conquest'-by-settling (i.e. These are, respectively, portals, and instant colonization. The Vaulters are a slightly unusual faction most of their actions behave fairly normally, but there are a couple major special abilities that make them play in a radically different manner than most factions.

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