Titans retain their level when rebuilt. So if you get your titan to level 6 and have it destroyed, if and when you rebuild it, it will be a level 6 titan as soon as it's complete. Just the nature of the game.

Ok. I guess it's done for balance reasons, otherwise the loss of a Titan would mean the game is essentially over and instead they want the game to drag on forever .... or maybe they just want the game to be decided in some other way than a simple battle between superweapons.

I will try some other tactics when dealing with Titans - because just sending my own Titan + a big fleet of cruisers and carriers is obviously not going to work against that kind of thing. It'll just do major damage to my fleet, starbase and planet before it gets destroyed and when it comes back it just goes on doing the same thing again, except that it is fresh and new and my fleet is battered and bruised.

Well , me and the AI were both Tec Loyalist (by chance) and in my own gravity wells my Titan plus Star Base plus some support could destroy a whole fleet of small ships (because I added light carriers to my fleet - to get rid of bombers and those pesky torpedo cruiserrs); in the enemy gravity well I lost my fleets. I just don't think a level 10 Ankylon Titan can be defeated anymore with just those little ships, especially inside the enemy gravity well. It has over 30 armor and several abilities which reduce damage you deal to it.

I decided to forget about those and just build big capital ships. That worked better. I had a support fleet of light carriers to get rid of enemy bombers, but I still lost too many of my capital ships when I attacked his heavility defended world and my fleet of light carriers was too vulnerable to assaults by light ships and cruiser. For defense it was really good, I could annihiliate his attacks as much as he annihilated mine (I suppose it's because the Tec Loyalist have a big advantage when defending their worlds).

I changed plans and built carrier capital shpis, in addition to the Kols and Akkans and even a Corsev that I had left from earlier tries. I added a second fleet of about 50 Robotic cruisers (with the offense ability disabled) which can repair the damage to the ships during battle. At first they flew away in every direction so that didn't work too well, and having all of them in 1 fleet didn't work either. I put them in separate fleets (capital ships and Titan in one fleet and the support cruisers in the other) and I set both fleets to hold position, so that they would keep still and wouldn't run around everywhere. That helped, the capital ships stayed in range of the robotics cruisers and got healed. In the end I also added a few scouts to detect mines. And that worked very well, I defeated the AI. I didn't need light carriers, I left that fleet near a Dead Asteroid to support my starbases( the AI wanted was very much focused on that world for whatever reason).

No Bombers are still your best bet to kill any large ship. Bombers have a damage modifier that does best against Heavy Armor types of capital ships.

Get like 50+ squadrons and watch that nice Titan drop like a fly.

If you are going to use capitals than get ones that can drain antimatter and shut down ablities. For the TEC that would be the Dunov.

Yes I used that tactic against a regenerating level 10 Titan in a game last week, I think it was a Vesari one. That Titan was simply impossible to destroy once it activated its drain ability, which happened to drain antimatter from all my ships and restored its own antimatter to about 1000. I tried to defeat it with small ships, big ships, until I tried a fleet with about 8 Dunov capital ships, all at level 4 or higher. And I had to be careful too, I had to disable the autocast on the shield restore first, otherwise the Dunovs would just waste their own antimatter on restoring the shields of small ships... and if I let that happen then the Titan would do the opposite to me, it would continuously drain the antimatter of my Dunovs, rendering them useless...

Anyway that wasn't necessary against the Tec Titan, although I suppose it would've been better to have included a few Dunovs because it would've sped up the process of destroying the Titan - it took pretty long to destroy it with just my fleet.

I had carriers and many bomber squadrons, but the bombers weren't really necessary to finish the Titan. The carriers also dropped many small missile towers, which had a really long range and were pretty powerful. I mainly used fighters (about 50 squadrons) to clear the skies in the enemy gravity well so that the AI wouldn't be able to bomb my ships. After a while, when most enemy bombers (and hangars) were destroyed I would turn a bunch of my squadrons into bombers squadrons, but they just flew around killing some turrets, I didn't really need them to destroy the Titan.

I suppose this kind of strategy only works against an AI. A human player would just select all his bombers and ships and take out my capital ships one by one, then my Titan, leaving me empty-handed. I wouldn't know how to win against such tactics, fortunately the AI isn't that smart.

It is very easy to figure out that this ability affects small ships, and if you remove those from it's vicinity, that ship will have no food to repair itself from. Not rocket science.

If one check from what that titan gains his repairs, he can figure out, maybe it is more difficult to realize for others, dunno.

Once against fully developed Hard AI, level8 Kultorask, man, after 3 rounds of losing my fleet, I had to realize how to remove those repairs on that titan, I though others will realize this too.. It was luck that stupid AI chased my Radiance all the way while my bombers actually killed that ships (though it was annoying as my Coronata stole his ships I constantly had to remove them first world problems..) and my Coronata stole all his fleet, but even this way it started for an hour or so.

I invaded once a fully developed Vasari Rebel homeworld, level8 kultorask. You can imagine it wasn't an easy story, but I won... So it is possible to defeat it even if it has supporting ships, as a Titan that can remove those (Coronata in my case, but every titan except ankylon is useful as they have AoE attacks). And bombers, 50-100 (or even more) bomber squadrons solve every problem pretty well

Yeah, in that case it maybe best to destroy the Starbase first if the Kultorask is under level 6. It has little offensive power until it unlocks its dissever ability at that level.

And yes, building starbases in enemy gravity wells is something you should use, especially later game when you have enough resources to shrug off the cost.

One day i need to figure out how ppl keep having these epic games with lvl 10 titans and huge fleets vs Hard AI. I joined a 4v6 HARD AI (same team) game this weekend to see whats it like. and it was seriously the most boring game of sins i have played to date. Killed 3 of the AIs with just disps/vettes and few capital ships...

Nah, literally none of the Hard AIs even made titans on a big 10 player map. Considering the fact it took quite awhile to kill every AI i would have expected at least the the last of them to have big fleets and titans. Yet they had nothing that could remotely kill 50 discs, vettes and 6 cap ships.

The AI is very predicatable and easily exploitable. And the strategies created for "competitive" multiplayer play will stomp out any AI in a really quick fashion.