Xenophile Feudal Empire - Stellaris Meta Builds

This sounds like a lot of fun and I'd like to try this. Coming to it late though. Has this approach been nerfed at all in 3.9? Thanks for the great content!

Would this still be viable with Clone Army Origin?

what grinds my gears is that exotic gas refineres , it dosnt say its an INdistrual or mining tag to it -.- and it annoysme!

Moral of the story: Read the fine prints or you might end up in a hegemony you didn't plan

I loved playing as a plantoid with tree of life because the tree of life holding gives a full chonky +1 loyalty per month and it's awesome

Space Australia 🤣

Recently I have this idea of playing a scenario where Earth, other that create its own sphere of colonies and basically a core empire, have spawn also few rogue colonies that in time evolved into various new empires inspired by old ones.
Kinda a new byzantine empire, a new republic of venice, new ottomans etc... In a sort of late medieval scenario.
I have to play something like that. 🤔

Who needs friends when you can have slaves :) Long Live the Space Confederacy !!!!! Good SIr

Xenophile-Authoritarian: "We will be friends.......indefinitely!"

Swolefin....I laughed at that

Has this been patched out yet?

With Pacifism you can make the space fauna friendly to you which may help you in finding other empires

This whole meta build i actually figured out randomly while playing a random game lately
It's absolutely bonkers, and it didn't take long before I kicked my "friends" from my fed as they were trying to expell my own subjects

Ahah i heard a Dune reference here

What movie is that from?

Hi Montu, quick question on this vid -- you mention going domination second if you were authoritarian but it seems like you would need still diplomacy to make a Federation right? I just tried this tactic (v 3.7.4) and it wouldn't let me make a federation, even a hegemony, without also having diplo. So it seems like it would take 3 filled-out traditions before you can make this work, whether you have authoritarian or not. Am I wrong?

God, this strat really is 'Congratulations, you're being rescued, please do not resist.'

The Xenophilic MegaCorp after vassalizing the entire galaxy before I’ve researched cruisers:

I stumbled into this playstyle during a single player game when (as a hive mind) I was invited to a hegemony federation and immediately took it over because my fleet size and political power was ridiculous at the time. In almost no time at all the entire galaxy was in my federation and I was essentially only competing with the crises at that point. (it was still early/mid game). Never thought about making this happen from the start but it looks like a lot of fun.

I did this by controlling the zro market...had a taste of that Pablo Escobar money

Can anyone tell me if this is still a viable meta build?

Please, someone tell me where the first part of the video from! Is it a movie? I need a name

What film is that at the start of the video?

I’ve never been in a federation 😭

Doesn't work anymore, coz there is a new modifier called "is itself overlord" with -1000 negative modification. Very sad.

I just subjugated half the galaxy in 2217...

I've tried this and they've fixed this now. Distance from your territory brings a massive penality when trying to vassalize basically making it impossible...

Space Australia? Are Hetap and Spice4X available there? :D

Translation: "Padishah" - means King

Does this still work? The traits seem to have got nerfed and I can't get the same species traits, also can't seem to colonize 0% planets.

Does this build still work?

Does this strategy still work in 3.6?

My space romans

Would you make a meta on being the crisis yourself?

So much friends. So much Geometres. Friends everywhere <3

The federation cannot break up early game because of low cohesion?

I love overlord because of the subject mechanics. I started my game as a fanatic xenophile Megacorp, made friends with everyone so no one wanted to kill me, got massive amounts of tech from consumer benefits trade policy, then built a massive fleet and proceeded to vassalize everyone.

I always just trade them favors. "Free". And three of them is well over 100 acceptance. Almost always gets you an embassy right off

I don’t understand there no option to propose subjugation is it because I’m in console?

Solid guide into "how to use and abuse vaselization"

Why not give them favors instead of resources for extra opinion? It's free and doesn't hurt your economy at all. You can do it immediately as well.

I mean, if you play on normal difficulty, and not the hardest, the game is already way to easy. I doubt this strategy could work on the ultra hardest difficulty, simple because the AI won't be impressed by your 1k fleet power.

but feel free to prove me wrong

If you took Domination just for hegemony, skip it. The authoritarian ethic automatically grants access to it once you have The Federation

This wont work anymore in 3.5 would it? The empires will have the "Overlord" modifier, thus you cannot gain empires and vassals that have been vassalized/overlorded already, right? Or am I missing things?

cool

Ah yes… friends . I love friends

I lucked into this playstyle as a militarist spiritual teacher of shroud because my neighbors had the Hegemony Origin. I fought their neighbor, they invited me to the federation and I promptly took control of it.

Bruh the one playthrough where I played as a feudal empire I was the one that got vassilized for like 100 years XD

🤣 "A galaxy full of flies." 🤣