Marclev0

Well thanks for all the advice - I just won my first challenging game. I did what was suggested here and didn't rush buy anything apart from two factories on Earth in the beginning, then zero'd every slider apart from military. Pumping out colony ships around every 5 turns and I managed to colonise a few planets. Now I evened out social and research spending and caught up on techs really quickly by trading them with everybody. Everything sort of worked itself out from there - so thanks

Thanks for the replies. I have no doubts that my strategy is fatally flawed (or I wouldn't be getting my butt handed to me on a plate!) My usual strategy until now's always been to rush my colony ships every turn at the start and send them every which way in the hope of finding a planet. I usually play on a medium map and find that if I don't do this, the AI grabs all the planets before I can. At this point I usually zero the military slider as I haven't got the production capacity to build thi

Hello, First time poster here, but long time(ish) player of Galciv 2. Somehow, the expansion seems to be missing a difficulty level for me in between normal and challenging. I find normal a cakewalk and am generally able to stomp all over the AI (it's actually easier than in the original). But challenging seems completely impossible now - no matter what I do, withing several turns, either the Drengin or the Altarians seem to end up with some hugely powerful fleet while I'm still flying