So I’m playing devouring swarm in Stellaris (cause I feel I have enough to balance trying to manage my empire without adding on top of it all the diplomacy aspects) and am thinking of invading my neighbors; the problem is that my chokepoint divides in two, and then each division also splits in two; I plan to capture a number of systems up to my next chokepoint, the only problem is that there are a handful of planets that’ll also be there.
One of the things that drives me crazy is that I take my deathstack fleet down one hyperlane only for the enemy’s forces to come down the other one; I’d like to just destroy all the starbases (the starter and built up ones) but can the planets build something up behind me while I do all that?
If they have no strong fleet, just split up your death stack. If they have any strong fleet then the best you can do is focus down their fleets with yours, and have weaker fleets take the territory.
Thanks, I read someone else’s advice to indeed use a corvette stack to take out small spacebases and will use that to quickly take their systems