Fleet Maneuvers - Stellaris Wiki (2024)

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How big should my fleet be Stellaris? ›

In the contact page it will show your relative fleet strength compared to each empire, you want it to be green(equal) to all your neighbours if you can. You want it as big as you can get it. I'd say balance fleet bigening based on how powerful your neighbours are until all the territory is filled.

If you are fighting a large empire, multiple fleets of gunboats and interceptor corvettes are ideal with large numbers and perhaps 1-2 cruisers in said fleet, with a battleship and its escorts being your head fleet to bombard worlds and escort transport fleets.

Though the player can direct a fleet toward or away from enemies, there is no control over individual ships (unless they make up a fleet on their own) or which ships they target. Each fleet is shown on the screen with a strength number.

Naval capacity represents the number of military ships that an empire can effectively support. Going beyond this limit will increase ship maintenance costs by a percentage proportional to the exceeded capacity.

For example, if one parent company is comprised of three 2,000 hp fleets (at different locations), the sum of the fleet's horsepower for purposes of determining fleet size is 6,000 hp, and the combined fleet will be considered a large fleet (greater than 5,000 hp).

Similarly, the best design for Battleships right now is the 1xH, 4xM core, the 2xM stern, and whatever bow you want (there's some argument against spinal, actually, since you usually can't fire it while evading... but the alpha strike is undeniably nice).

Piracy suppression is greater with smaller ships, even unarmed ones. So in ship designer, make some anti-piracy specific corvettes with nothing on them. Create a handful for each of your trade routes, and put them on patrol. They suppress piracy strongly, and cost practically nothing.

Every 800 Fleet capacity you can build one more Colossus until you have 5. Unfortunately this is a fixed limit because all large ships now have their own internal maximum fleet capacity. Paradox has changed the way the limits of large ships as the Titan, Colossus and Juggernaut are calculated.

It's where they're idling. If the text is red they're idling at full maintenance cost. If their Idling at a starbase they have a green text which is 50% maintenance cost(i think). This is why you'll suddenly see your resources drop slightly when you move your fleets out from a star base to open space.

Pops start to decline when a planet is 25% overcrowded. Planet capacity is capped at 500, regardless of free housing or unblocked districts. Pops can go over 500 and will not stop growing (or decline) until the required housing exceeds available housing by 15% (or 25%). species growth by −0.5%.

How many science ships should I build Stellaris? ›

All Empires start off with one science ship that can begin exploring neighboring systems. At the start of any game, players must race to discover as much territory as possible, and the best way to do this is by building at least two more science ships and recruiting scientist leaders to command them.

And if you bombard fortifications to 0 you deal double damage. 12 armies should be enough for a size 20 planet, but it's gonna be a while and you'll probably suffer casualties. I usually start with 20+ assault armies, with sizes increasing as the game goes on.

Planet size

Planets have a size between 12 and 25. Moons have a size between 10 and 15. Homeworlds have a size between 18 and 21, unless otherwise determined by the empire's origin.

Planet capacity is capped at 500, regardless of free housing or unblocked districts.

Titans also have a strict build limit, with a base of 1 allowed per empire; every 200 naval capacity increases an empire's Titan cap by 1, up to a maximum of 20 Titans at 3800 naval capacity.