Auxiliary Ships Guide - X4 Foundations - Captain Collins

Sure Aux ship is a must have addition once you step into L/XL fleets. One Behemoth repairs bill is around 1m after a good fight so soon Aux ships would pay for themselves

Great video <3

I just started playing a week ago, I’m at a point where I have 7 fighters, 2 corvettes, and 1 frigate. Next ship I’m trying to decide on destroyer so I can complete some Xenon quests or the auxiliary ship. Which will of course save me money in the long run and my fighters can auto repair. Both seem to cost about the same 12-16 mil.

Aww wish i knew this before I sent Naughty AI Genocide Fleet Alpha into Xenon space.

I've been using Aux ships in my fleets quite awhile for repairs. All the ships in my fleet, from fighters to Asgards, will automatically use it to repair. I could never figure out how to get the supply ships attached to the Aux to do anything. After watching your video, I think the problem is the lack of blueprints. I was expecting the supply ships to go get missiles or drones, not the wares needed to make the stuff. It's funny that I have stations producing all these wares, but I never bought the blueprints for say, a type of drone. My wharf and shipyard can produce these things without blueprints as well, so long as they have the raw materials. I have blueprints for all the turrets, engines, etc of course. I never had to purchase blueprints for repair drones or a certain type of missile before. Thanks for the insight, I'm off to gather more blueprints!

I always got bored long before I had fleets and started over but recently I got to the point where I built my own wharf and even built a few Asgard. Thats the first time I got an auxiliary ship and I guess I'll try got get one of these earlier in the game from now on.

Hi Buyed this game with all dlcs a few weeks ago, never understand how to play it.

That ship looks sexy and where do I get it

Hi Great vids as awalys, I seem to be having an issue with rearming a carriers bombers, i have an Auxli ship on fleet it has the wares needed and global orders are set to high for respuly but... 1) they dont automatical resluplay.
2) if i high light all the fights in the group say 10 all the same fits to the Aux ship it wont let me select the consumable or added the 10 ships to the shoping basket, but i can do them indervidualy

Am i missing somthing ?

Huh... I mean, I miight get one? I'm not sold on it yet, but then I focus more on the economy side rather than the piracy side... And if I do want to pirate something, I just get my Erlking to sidle up next to it and release ALL the pods.

I was thinking about buying an Aux for trading since they seem like the only XL ships in the game we can use for trading.. I gather from this video, that's not possible? Are trade ships stuck to L class only then? Kinda a bummer if that's the case. I wanted something that has a ton of cargo but more hull/shields/weaponry than L class ships. Hopefully there's some way to get XL traders in this game if we can't use Aux.. Would be a bummer! :D

Combatants win battles...logistics win wars...

only use this ship as a mobile repair station still having problems building missile with it as its too slow since my ships need thousands of them.

Hey, just wanna say that you speaking perfectly well. I’m able to understand everything :).
A french guy 😂

This is the most useless ship class, considering ammo and fuel isn't a thing for ships.

There needs to be a medium class aux for smaller battle groups.

I used the auxiliary ships like a strike carrier did not know then could strengthen my carrier with supplies

Limited wares for a flying trading/repair station? that's a perfectly acceptable compromise for me. What a cool ship.

Well this is akward. I use mine as a budget carrier with 75 defense drones on escort . . .

An over powered custom start is to start with a barely fitted aux near the capital of whatever faction makes it along with a small fighter. Just one. Set faction relation fot that faction to very negative. Thrn start taking ships from them till either you have become there new king or have finally been killed. Also set one other faction taht routinely goes to war with that faction at 15. Implying they funded the heist on the condition any military ships you steal gets sold to them. Wether you follow said condition or back stab said faction is up to you.

The backstop is your an ex marine who became disillusioned by the military and stole an auxilory from dry dock while it was being refitted to act as your mobile pirate base. Chaos endues. Clear seas and terrible might fellow travelers.

my fleet is just stuck at change equipment at auxiliary ship? aux is full of everything

A nomad has less storage space than a incarcatura (29,000 vs 45,000), so they can't really act as super-sized transporters.

Started using the Harbor in SWI mod. That thing has copius amounts of cargo space. Which is useful because Star Wars fighters use tons of missiles.

Thanks for the video and tips! Great timing, as I recently 'acquired' a Honshu. :)

I already do use them.

I want to use one just because it's cool. My game is modded to the wazoo, so money isn't scarce.

In my opinion carriers should already serve same purpose of supply ships as that's their purpose, to carry and maintain smaller ships, they should allow to give traders to carriers and instead of adding supply ships they should give us more destroyers as there's only two in the game (Asgard and Elrking)

Just capped a Monarch with 3 Marine filled Cobras. Was hilarious.

But thanks Capt, I know know a few things I didn't about the Aux ships :)

This video helped me %100. Thanks man👍 keep up the awesome videos 👍👍

Hi captain, I just realized that after updating to x4 5.0, I can no longer play the game with my laptop that mounts a 780M (yes a laptop version). With 4 version I was able to play the game, I wrote to egosoft sending the crash files logs but I'm afraid nothing can be done. Do you have any suggestions? I have a desktop with 3080 but when I am away from home I would like to play. (I am trying to downgrade with 4.20 beta to see if it works). regards I love a lot your live terran series that you did on 2021.

So you can practically treat these ships as mobile staging bases for your operations like piracy

the problem with these ships is they don't carry anywhere near enough supplies to perform their function. and after each battle you'll need to sell everything it's carrying, and then tell it to go get supplies. if you don't sell first it ends up with a whole bunch of stuff it never uses and not enough of the stuff it does need. after a couple battles it can't rearm or repair anyone because it doesn't have the supplies needed, because it's filled with all the stuff it never uses. so having the support ship doesn't really help, you end up having to send the fleet back to resupply/repair/rearm anyway. in theory it's a cool idea, in practice in the game it just doesn't seem to work, just adds another ship for the enemy to go after (and boy do they) having multiple supply ships per fleet doesn't solve the problem either. my initial thought was while sending one back to sell/resupply supplies, the other one would be available to assist the fleet, but none of the ships of the fleet will use the other supply ship. you have to manually remove the old supply ship from the fleet and send it back and then manually assign the new supply ship to the fleet, leave the sector, come back to the sector, and do that after each large battle. easier to just not use missiles/torpedoes and send ships back to a station for repairs as needed. In order for them to actually do what they are supposed todo, supply ships would have to carry 20 times what they do AND ships would have to repair/rearm several times faster than they do AND support ships would have to resupply themselves according to what they actually are using AND fighting ships would need to carry several times more missiles/torpedoes than they do AND missiles/torpedoes would have to travel several times faster AND .... you get the idea. neat idea generally, but as implemented it's big ole fat NOPE

I was ising them as defense drone carriers since they hold 100 drones

And what about near 100 defense drones capacity? AUX - great drone carrier, helping me in attack an in defense.

X4 is my favorite game of all time and I have been playing video games for more than 32 years Since the days of PONG. Great Contain on this Channel. You have a new subscriber.

Thanks so much! I've only just started using an auxiliary ship and was so lost why things weren't working!.

Wow this is very useful information. This is how you can sustain a prolonged conflict in enemy sectors.

Great video. Educational, concise, factual, with added comments from experience & wisdom. Thank you. >thumbs up<

i bought one to repairr the pirate destroyer i like to capture. but sadly the repair costs the same as if i would use a station...and nothing gets repaired automatically :(

So, countermeasures... I've never seen the need of them? When and against what will they be used for?

Hi. So what start would you recomend for a new player. Bought every expansion, but never rly gotn in to it. Tried some as the terran cadet. But wana start a new game so i can remember everything you know. But dont know what start to choose, dont wana miss anything🥴

I’ve been using mine for repairs. I had no idea it could result missiles for me away from station with the help of traders. Tyvm captain.

Thanks for the video.

Atlas E - assign a captain and fill with marines - fly close by an Asgard, drop all marines (very strong/very strong) and float away with assist disabled. Brand new Asgard in your fleet a few minutes later.

New knowledge again.... Huge thanks.....

Captain Collins is there are way to build a self repairing defence plattform? And if add in a few rocket launchers will the station automatically fill up the rockets?

Haven't played in a while, but the problem with having AUX supplying a carrier was that the AUX went to close to the combat area. Used to have two AUX in my fleet, but as soon as I arrived to the conflict sector, I unassigned both AUX and left them supplying the sector, parked between the gate and the combat area. I see that changing buy orders it's still not possible. That sucks when you want a squadron with torpedo/missile launchers

It all makes sense now

i thought they ware big trading ships after you'r vidio i vill use them det right way thanck you , i like you'r vidios so motch