is it possible to beat legio unchained with under 240 dp?
Did any of you guys do it?
I'm waiting for an Industrial.Evolution 0.96a update before starting a new run, so I haven't tried that yet. That said, I would advise to face the Legio toasters with their natural faction counter, the Scalar Tech Defence Force (certainly, Nia wouldn't let us down...). When I used a STDF strike group fielding 15 (yeah, I ignored my Golden Rule in this case) of their phase destroyers and an assortment of Spindle frigate classes, included the distinguished Skirt, with a typical faction weapons layout with an emphasys on Ion damage (Baste ion dischargers and such), the Legio Rising bounty was relatively easy to win. Be sure to ALWAYS use a Percale Phase Cruiser as your flagship to fight against the accursed Daemons, since it is one of the few ships with a highly enough energy and ion ALPHA STRIKE damage potential as to cripple and overload any cruiser class and below WITH ONE BLAST, or two. Give the annoying Daemons its ion medicine, especially the hounds and centurions, before they can cause disruption among your combatants. Even the dreaded Hel Scaith is marked for destruction if caught flanked and unaware of your presence, a very common situation. That assumes a specialization in energy weapons on the player side.
So give it a try. Swarm them with the Spindle version of the wolf pack. A very EMP pack that is certain to counter Daemon speed and deathyness. Set as your primary targets any Kodai Daemons you find and destroy them ASAP with a surprise attack from P-SPACE. They are the most dangerous Legio warmachines IMHO, but are often vulnerable to the rear.
Yea i used an iron shell XIV fleet with an XIV Skysplitter as a flagship and used a similar strategy by using its big alpha strike potential to kill the hel frigates (specially the hounds *** those things) and managed to win the legio rising bounty only losing a few frigates, but on the unchained bounty they all have SO and the double tachyon lances+Annihilation protocol isnt enough to get through a lot of the bigger ships shields since it deals soft flux damage, and the hel retributions with SO are just plain broken lol.
Also im unfortunately not using spindle in this playthrough