If destroying an enemy station causes the AI alarm (which tracks how aware the AI is of your actions – and the severity of the threats that it throws at you) to rise, then you don’t destroy them. Which means you will have to use every trick and exploit to nullify the enemy forces. You pit your limited forces against an enemy that controls the entire galaxy. However, AI War 2 is a game about fuckery. Sometimes, a doom stack is more of a doom spread. When I was playing the review copy, there was a hard cap on the amount of craft you can have, which meant that I used them as a sort of doom stack. You can also build ships – those are a lot more limited in number and expensive, but a lot more powerful. There, you build your craft – swarms of essentially expendable fliers that used to overwhelm the enemy defenses. When the game starts, you only have your home system with which holds the surviving human population, a space station, an Arc (a super-ship) and the beginnings of your economy. This is one of the neat ways that the game pushes you to expand ever onward. However, once taken, it can endlessly produce energy and metal, even if in capacities that are limited (like in Sins of a Solar Empire). Each planet holds a limited amount of hacking and research points to be harvested. The map in AI War 2 is a grid of systems – planets – connected by warp lanes. You get to lead the survivors in this interesting mix of RTS and tower defense.

This allows a small human remnant that secreted itself away in some backwater system to try to fight back against the AI. The main AI consciousness is now fighting extragalactic threats while smaller minds/offshoots/branches take care of smaller problems in its domain. Siri had enough of our crap and most of the humans are dead.

The premise of the game is that the AI has already won its fight against humanity. However, what if a game was structured around playing against the AI, both in the actual and meta sense? Then you get AI War and its upcoming sequel AI War 2. Compstomp – playing skirmish battles against the AI rather than human players – is almost a sideshow as far as ma many RTS players are concerned.

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