god imagine flying in this fuckin fighter formation "ALL FIGHTERS. FUCK THIS GUY UP" you hear, as you and 200 other thunders turn to a single tesseract
the only time i ever defeated the mega ordo the bounty one that has like 10 fucking radiants and 70 alpha cores was shitting as many dmodded frigates out of my colony to rush them i think a good 30% had 3+ dmods and i ended with a total fleet of 130 frigates the only survivors were two omens(excluding the legion of fuel ships required to lug them all there)
The Germans have something to say about that. Statistics show that the German tiger tanks killed 11 enemy tanks on average for each tiger lost, but lose them they did. Hilariously they conform to the high tech vs. low tech doctrine almost to the letter: Tiger tanks were terrors on the battlefield but suffered a lot more out-of-combat problems due their high precision engineering made them more prone to technical difficulties and breakdowns than the less finnicky allies tanks. They simply got outnumbered.
lmao here I was wiping tears from losing 2 paragons, 2 astrals and 2 onslaughts to the spicy doritos... which is like what, 280 DP? Turns out all I needed was a ton of converted transports...
@@Beregorn88 I normally play with the mod that limits fleet size by deployment cost rather than just numbers. It... honestly makes much more sense, and gives you a reason to have an actual diverse fleet build rather than just all your best ship.
@@TK-nn8jd I admit that my knowledge of starsector is not very deep, but, as far as I know, in vanilla the fleet size is capped to 30, period. No skill, no ability, no increased maintenance, just 30 ship maximum.
The whole draw of the Buffalo, and really any of the low tech vessels, is the ability for multiple allies to concentrate firepower on the same target. Sure, the Buffalo is just about the softest bundle of wet toilet paper on the battlefield. But four to six Buffalos screened by a tough detatchment of enforcers and monitors significantly increases your fleetwide DPS without needing a direct line of sight. Buffalos are basically really big, slow bombers.
Or several D-Mod-full Atlas-mk2 as cheap and powerful long-range artillery just should be careful, as these are the most literal glass cannons in this game
who will win, 2 extremely technologically advanced reality bending machines with cutting edge artificial intelligence technology or a shit ton of scrap metal
The AI wars were fought over the use of AI, the AI themselves were just commanding fleets for tritach in the first war after which the command codes were lost.
Two Tesseracts would get utterly mangled by a massive fleet of anything. Now field them with half the number of buffalos in Destroyer Shards and watch the buffalo fleet get disintegrated.
4:28 I JUST REALIZED THEY ARE CALLED BUFFALO BECAUSE THEY USE BUFFALO TACTICS!!! One sacrifices himself for the horde while the rest take advantage of it!
Now i know pirates could take the sector if they really wanted to. They are just too interested in Drinking Grog and having a fine time taking your belongs.
The most reliable ship in my playthrough is a Buffalo MK2 I scavenged on combat encounter #2. It has exploded at least 8 times but keeps returning to action.
Two noble knights. Adorned in the finest weapons and armor our civilisation could produce, trained for decades in techniques that took hundreds of years to develop, felled by a hundred peasants throwing rocks and carrying angry bees. If those AIs had a face, it would be flabbergasted.
Ya know, I had a mod a ways back that set the fleet limit to be based on DP instead of ship count. The DP? 600. I'm -heavily- contemplating reloading that mod on a save to see what mischief 600 DPs can get up to.
I imagine this Is how wars are fought against higher civilisations. Like we haven't developed shield tech yet, nor energy weapons. Just throw thousand of low tech ships at em.
Big guy threatening to kick your ass? Sure, you could spend time and money training, getting bigger, learning how to fight and devise tactics... Or you could just pick up a hornet's nest and throw it at him That is Epser's strategy in a nutshell
@@epser5842 I'm going to make it work somehow , even if it's just for ramming lol, it's kind of a shame that some mods still aren't converted into this new version of the game
![2 Onslaught XIV vs Tesseracts [0.95.1]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q4pjgDlKbfI/mqdefault.jpg)
seeing you spend 17 SP to recover the destroyed Buffalos brought a tear to my eye. You really do love them
Humanity's greatest creation
Destroyed Buffalos: "But sir, we're expendable"
epser: "Not to me"
o7
@@epser5842 chad
o7
-And the way they were moving... It wasn't like anything I've seen, even the [REDACTED]
-The Tesseracts you mean?
-No, the Buffalos
Domain hypertech btfo'd by shitty flying cargo boxes.... Brilliant
Quality vs quantity. There is only so much you can do with finite resources.
As it turns out, 2 dp for a bunch of missiles and converted hangar is pretty good.
Me, a 84 IQ brainlet: I will use combined arms and a balanced fleet to lay waste to my enemies
You, a 104 IQ Genius: BUFFALOAD
BUFFALOAD... okay that's a good one! Thank you for the lol.
🤣
Seeing the amount of Luddites and Pirates in the sector this is actually lore wise posible lmao
Id probably die too if i had 300+ harpoons launched at me.
This is the Starsector equivalent of a zerg rush.
Ships so absolutely brilliantly engineered they don't even NEED a flux grid.
This is literally the physical embodiment of "when gun no work apply more gun"
Engineer is happy.
god imagine flying in this fuckin fighter formation
"ALL FIGHTERS. FUCK THIS GUY UP" you hear, as you and 200 other thunders turn to a single tesseract
While flight of the valkeries plays in the vackground
Ride of the Valkyries does not fit this scenario. What would, however, would be Flight of the Bumblebee.
The classical Peasant Mob technique can defeat even the greatest enemies.
using the tac laser as an activation system for the harpoons is absolutely brilliant
If I learned anything from this game, is that no matter how shitty ur equimepent is if u can spam enough of it u'll win every fight.
The term you are looking for is "Quantity has a quality all its own." -Joseph Stalin
Just like what the russians did during the wars.
the only time i ever defeated the mega ordo the bounty one that has like 10 fucking radiants and 70 alpha cores was shitting as many dmodded frigates out of my colony to rush them i think a good 30% had 3+ dmods and i ended with a total fleet of 130 frigates the only survivors were two omens(excluding the legion of fuel ships required to lug them all there)
or in other words starsector is more about the logistics than the battle itself
The Germans have something to say about that. Statistics show that the German tiger tanks killed 11 enemy tanks on average for each tiger lost, but lose them they did.
Hilariously they conform to the high tech vs. low tech doctrine almost to the letter: Tiger tanks were terrors on the battlefield but suffered a lot more out-of-combat problems due their high precision engineering made them more prone to technical difficulties and breakdowns than the less finnicky allies tanks.
They simply got outnumbered.
lmao here I was wiping tears from losing 2 paragons, 2 astrals and 2 onslaughts to the spicy doritos... which is like what, 280 DP?
Turns out all I needed was a ton of converted transports...
Derelict Contigent For the win, my bro!
Derelict Contingent, Support Doctrine, and any other fleet combat skill that has the DP limit penalty.
I wanted to like the buffalo, but I never had any real good experiences with them. Now I realize I’ve been playing the game completely wrong
The game was modded to allow more than 30 ships in your fleet... He deployed 60 ships and lost 27, this is just for the memes
@@Beregorn88 I normally play with the mod that limits fleet size by deployment cost rather than just numbers. It... honestly makes much more sense, and gives you a reason to have an actual diverse fleet build rather than just all your best ship.
@@duloth5518 Support Doctrine and Derelict Contingency FTW
@@Beregorn88 Look at 7:54. He didn't mod his play-through; he ate the fleet over-capacity penalty just to get his junk armada into strike range.
@@TK-nn8jd I admit that my knowledge of starsector is not very deep, but, as far as I know, in vanilla the fleet size is capped to 30, period. No skill, no ability, no increased maintenance, just 30 ship maximum.
The whole draw of the Buffalo, and really any of the low tech vessels, is the ability for multiple allies to concentrate firepower on the same target.
Sure, the Buffalo is just about the softest bundle of wet toilet paper on the battlefield.
But four to six Buffalos screened by a tough detatchment of enforcers and monitors significantly increases your fleetwide DPS without needing a direct line of sight.
Buffalos are basically really big, slow bombers.
Or several D-Mod-full Atlas-mk2 as cheap and powerful long-range artillery
just should be careful, as these are the most literal glass cannons in this game
Monitors are midline tho
Buffalo are technically high tech, now that I think about it.
Yes, but buffalo Mk2s are pirate tech.
who will win, 2 extremely technologically advanced reality bending machines with cutting edge artificial intelligence technology or a shit ton of scrap metal
All those green pips felt like I was about to watch a horde of rats devour a giant.
"Give me enough ants, and I can kill an elephant" - Julius Caesar (probably)
I fought Omega with Buffalos Mk II on a whim and now you need just 120 DP and no s-mods, either... Nicely done, man.
Wouldn't have been possible without your inspiration.
Strategy "we have more men then they have bullets" being executed successfully in space.
OMEGA never saw it coming - how the fuck did we almost lose two AI wars before this again?
We have a shit about life, the universe and everything back then.
Imagine doing the same thing but with twice as many automated drones from the explorarium.
The AI wars were fought over the use of AI, the AI themselves were just commanding fleets for tritach in the first war after which the command codes were lost.
We sent in a bunch of Paragons and Onslaughts and got rolled.
Two Tesseracts would get utterly mangled by a massive fleet of anything.
Now field them with half the number of buffalos in Destroyer Shards and watch the buffalo fleet get disintegrated.
You might dislike it, but this is what peak performance looks like
High tech enjoyer be sheeting rn
Well, have you seen how 30 Scarabs mob down the doritos? High tech can do this game too :D
@@khaoscualdawath I don’t like scarab, they are too squishy for my taste.
30 omens (skull)
4:28 I JUST REALIZED THEY ARE CALLED BUFFALO BECAUSE THEY USE BUFFALO TACTICS!!! One sacrifices himself for the horde while the rest take advantage of it!
So rare to see a herd this large. Nature's beautiful
As a new starsector player, i just wanna say that this was a dope video
Now i know pirates could take the sector if they really wanted to. They are just too interested in Drinking Grog and having a fine time taking your belongs.
It's... beautiful. I could picture it in my head, but it never looked like this. I gotta try this now.
2200 crews lost... ow
Yea but about 1400 were saved, so the loss is actually about 800.
When one man fall, two more shall take his place.
Salutes in Big Boss
just as the [HYPER REDACTED] can split into smaller ships, so too can the Buffalo split into dozens of escape pods
through the power of teamwork, even the most harebrained plan can succeed
2:09 “NOT THE BEES!!!!”
not the bees! not the bees!!! AAAAH!!
The most reliable ship in my playthrough is a Buffalo MK2 I scavenged on combat encounter #2.
It has exploded at least 8 times but keeps returning to action.
doot doot
doot doot
doot doot
doot doot
doot doot
doot doot
doot doot
doot doot
doot doot
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I think your buffalo's combat readiness might start decreasing soon.
"Losses, unfortunately, are to be expected..."
Please bring back the Buffahorde for future game versions. This is hilarious xD
So this is what a space necromancer looks like? Nice!!!
I have no fear of an AI takeover. Itll never survive humans spamming it with stupidity.
a highly underated comment 🤣💀
The Buffalo is a weapon to surpass metal gear.
Dear god the missiles. I’ve never seen so many in one fleet
"Quantity has a quality all its own"_ A Very Famous Dude
Two noble knights. Adorned in the finest weapons and armor our civilisation could produce, trained for decades in techniques that took hundreds of years to develop, felled by a hundred peasants throwing rocks and carrying angry bees.
If those AIs had a face, it would be flabbergasted.
Ya know, I had a mod a ways back that set the fleet limit to be based on DP instead of ship count. The DP? 600.
I'm -heavily- contemplating reloading that mod on a save to see what mischief 600 DPs can get up to.
.95 was a strange era i see...
Soviets fights tiger tank 1944 colorised xD
Any Starsector player worth his salt has had that hail mary Buffalo moment. This is beautiful 😢
You can outrun the stampede but you can't outgun it.
The only thing that would've made this video better would've been more buffalos
Lucky for you I made a video with 160 DP of buffalos
@@epser5842 you should defenately give all of them reapers.
No amount of pd or flux capacity would stop you
Converted hangar is a power to abilities some consider unnatural.
intro could have been the buffalo bill mirror tune
luddic sect crying rn.
I fear not the captain that has flown 1 Paragon 60 times.
I fear the captain that has flown 60 Buffalo Mk.II's once.
the buffalo is God's strongest soldier
The herd moves as one
virgin "carrier tactics" vs Chad "Become The Swarm"
the video no one knew they needed
arent buffalos 4dp? are you using derelict operations?
Derelict Operations and Support Doctrine
Plus increased fleet limits
Literally 9/11
what the heck,we have the same profile pic
it was meant to be
clearly the greatest ship in the game
I imagine this Is how wars are fought against higher civilisations. Like we haven't developed shield tech yet, nor energy weapons. Just throw thousand of low tech ships at em.
ISS **shipname** (Buffalo Mk.II class) reports combat readiness will start decreasing soon
DEVOURING SWARM.
Anyone else getting Ender's Game flashbacks?
Big guy threatening to kick your ass? Sure, you could spend time and money training, getting bigger, learning how to fight and devise tactics...
Or you could just pick up a hornet's nest and throw it at him
That is Epser's strategy in a nutshell
Omegoids coping and seething rn
Childhood is when you idolize capitals.
Adulthood is when you realize 60 buffalo Mk.II makes more sence
Okay u got me imma follow
its beautiful
TWO??!?!?!
man throws garbage at highly intelligent super machines, wins
Now do it with Kites.
So I’m guessing you ran derelict operations to get this many?
ye
omg WW2 USSR in space, nice
See? Perfectly viable.
I like this, but i prefer my onslaught + dominator spam
onslaughts are cool
buffalo only cost 2dp each? damn
SD + DO
Quantity beats Quality
How do you get them have so many d-mods?
i shot at them with my own ziggurat
@@epser5842 parent of the year
Genius!
How are you not affected by ship limit. Some mod? Which mods are you running?
Nice DP remain
mosquito tactics
The first victim of this battle: the framerate.
actual fucking swarm hive mind lol, im going to test this shit out
shit is worthless after 0.96 CH nerfs
@@epser5842 I'm going to make it work somehow , even if it's just for ramming lol, it's kind of a shame that some mods still aren't converted into this new version of the game
How much was the supply cost a day to run this beautiful fleet?
61/30 ships in fleet. -14 supplies per day. The HUD gives such information.
LOW TECH HERD
I always have 2 with salamanders in my vanilla fleet. So cheap and easily replaceable.
This becomes a whole lot less interesting when you've played the game and this is just how the AI structures their fleets anyways.
low tech best tech
Meme fleet is best fleet... Who need paragon anyway......
Beatboxing in space cargo box straped whit shit load of d mod and guns
Obscene
Who would win?
Gatorade Doritos
or
Navy's equivalent to cockroaches
YAMEROOOO
Waste no part of the Buffalo Mk. 2 🐃
omega lul
Local Man Uses All Parts of the Buffalo 🦬
Who would win?
Gatorade Doritos
or
Navy's equivalent to cockroaches