Starsector 0.97a - 5 Onslaught (XIV) vs. 5 Hegemony Inspection Fleets

Not even the best Hegemony fleets can survive against their own battleships! As luck would have it, fellow pirate raiders distracted both the staging station and the typical patrols, allowing me to battle against 5 of the 6 Hegemony Inspection Fleets at once. Since my whole fleet was not fully equipped for such a drawn-out fight, one full retreat was needed to recover PPT - worth even losing one of the Onslaughts in the process!
Pure vanilla gameplay; no mods were used.
0:00 Encounter
0:18 1st Battle Start
18:03 1st Battle End
18:15 2nd Battle Start
32:07 2nd Battle End
32:25 3rd Battle Start
36:00 3rd Battle End
36:58 Ship Loadouts
(I forgot to show character skills here, but they are similar to what was shown in the previous 5 Onslaught (XIV) video, but with elite Gunnery Implants instead of Navigation.)

[@xzardas541]

Hedge took extra emotional damage for fighting thier own ships.

[@Incubansoul]

When the ATF is at your door but you have a 5 tank armored division in your back yard.

[@Pooperz100]

“I used the hegemony to destroy the hegemony”

[@lukedufaur5368]

Shields?! On an Onslaught?! What blasphemy is this?!

[@lokiweb2165]

Tis a grave sin most certainly punishable by 5 cycles in the gremlin

[@vladimirvojtaml]

Hepahaestus assault gun is now beast! I love that it got buffed alongside with Mjolnir finally these guns are usable.

[@istvansipos9940]

I play 096 and the Mjolnir works like a charm. Buffed in 097, you say? Oh, yeah!

[@momom6197]

Third battle admiral be like: "Dammit, all we have left as combat-ready ship is a Heron... And they still have four onslaughts. No matter, send in the IEDs!"
"Sir, we don't..."
"We have ten Promethei for each of their ships!"
"Yes, but they're not..."
"I SAID, SEND THEM IN!"
"...Yes, sir."

[@Bobylein1337]

"If some of them didn't run like cowards they'd have won!"
the admiral during the after action report.

[@Jaxck77]

*Prometheuses

[@anthonyreyes2554]

Dang, I really need to learn how to do combat like this

[@federicocalvo7660]

The secret ingredient is a shuttle with the command center modification. You see it being put at the corner of the map at the start. With that and skills you regenerate command points really fast, ensuring you're never too short on them to give orders during battle.
Then it's mostly keeping a battle line with your capitals and microing the frigates against the enemies that attack from the back or against the enemy capitals to duel them at an advantage.

[@anthonyreyes2554]

@@federicocalvo7660 Thank you!

[@ydk1k253]

5 absolute unit

[@ImJustJass]

i wonder if this handles against ordo fleets?

[@seniorbob2180]

Proximity mines are still good after the nurf? No expanded missile racks

[@ptirodaktill]

No shield stunt on onslaugts? Blasphemy!

[@varanzmaj]

Where do peopple get the XIV ships?

[@marczhu7473]

Mod and own faction start

[@onestupidboi9320]

why did you S-mod advanced turret gyros and not go with expanded magazines?

[@istvansipos9940]

that was a wasteful persui... Oh, no. It was not.