Campaign is not really balanced as far as I can tell. If you want to play singleplayer get ready to just use super cheesy tactics and have super long boring battles where nothing interesting happens. I tried the tyrannids and lost completely, so I looked up online what I was doing wrong, apparently the only real strategy is to just sit hidden in gas clouds and fire from maximum range, ignoring all the other cool stuff the tyrannids can do because it isn't balanced to be actually viable.

So yeah I guess you could play like that but why? Why is the difficulty cranked up so high (even on easy)?

EDIT: When I say difficulty btw, the AI isn't good, it just gets way more ships than you. That's it, you have to figure out how to beat a fleet 3 times the size of yours, at a certain point that isn't interesting at all. Because the only way to do it is to use super game tactics that aren't fun.

Campaign is not really balanced as far as I can tell. If you want to play singleplayer get ready to just use super cheesy tactics and have super long boring battles where nothing interesting happens. I tried the tyrannids and lost completely, so I looked up online what I was doing wrong, apparently the only real strategy is to just sit hidden in gas clouds and fire from maximum range, ignoring all the other cool stuff the tyrannids can do because it isn't balanced to be actually viable. So yeah I guess you could play like that but why? Why is the difficulty cranked up so high (even on easy)? EDIT: When I say difficulty btw, the AI isn't good, it just gets way more ships than you. That's it, you have to figure out how to beat a fleet 3 times the size of yours, at a certain point that isn't interesting at all. Because the only way to do it is to use super game tactics that aren't fun.