Solo Armadas

Gameplay is increasingly Armada-based

More and more (Solo-)Armadas are being added. It started with Dominion, Borg, then Shipyards, Krenim, Type 03, G6 FKR Solos, Hurak Invasions, Conqueror Borg, forgive me if I forgot any, and not to leave out all the Group Armadas (Doomsday, anyone?)

FastTrek can now automatically engage both Solo Armadas and Group Armadas using either a single ship or a ‘Lead’ ship with any number of Support ships.
Let’s jump straight into the configuration:

Configuring the Lead ship

This is the ship that will start armadas. The setup for this ship is the same regardless of whether you use Support ships or not.

Select ‘Solo Armada’

Configure your main ship for Solo Armadas. Here I am picking Altero for some Level 60 Dominion Solo Armadas.

I’m also asking the ship to repair when the hull goes below 30%, opting for a ‘total number of battles’ configuration instead of just ‘number of battles’. This way I can be sure that 12 Armadas will be defeated, regardless of the number of attempts or repairs required.

Rarity

The following Solo Armadas allow filtering by rarity:

• Borg
• Dominion
• Federation
• Klingon
• Romulan

When a rarity is selected, the location selector will be further filtered to only show systems with that rarity of Armada.

For Borg and Dominion Armadas, where multiple different types share a system, FastTrek will only target the types of Armada matching the selected rarities.

Krenim / Temporal Armadas

Please ensure you select the correct type, either static or charged.

FastTrek will only target the selected type.

Group Armadas

Group Armadas can be selected from the type dropdown, segregated into 14 groups, which are all prefixed with *Group - *:

• Exchange
• Swarm Horde
• Borg Cube
• Mega Cube
• Borg Polygon
• Borg Expansion Cube
• G4
• G5
• G7
• Cardassian
• Klingon Burial Ship
• Doomsday Fissure
• Xindi
• Quantum Tesseract

Where a group spans multiple factions, you’ll be able to use the system dropdown to find Armadas for the desired faction, such as for G3-G7 which include FKR and Independent armadas.

The location selector will only show systems with the selected group and rarity.

Ship limit: Obviously, the limit is only 1 of your own ships. Should you combine this with Solo Armada Support to send another ship, FastTrek will join with both ships. As per game rules, only the strongest (by power) will then be chosen to participate.

Ship Abilities?

Depending on your ship, certain ship abilities can be activated. Currently supported are:

• Anti-static (USS Relativity)
• Anti-charged (USS Relativity)
• Field Repairs (certain FKR ships)
• Taunt (Vindicator)
• Relentless Assault (certain FKR ships)

These abilities will be activated before engaging an Armada and renewed as necessary.

Levels?

In some systems, different Armada rarities are segregated by levels (such as Borg). You can try using level filters to restrict to a particular type when possible, if the rarity filter results in targeting issues.

If neither Keywords nor Levels are specified, FastTrek may start any solo armadas in the system.

Start Paused

Hit “Start Paused”, then we’ll continue to configure the Support Ships.

Configuring the Support ship(s) Captain& up

These ships will simply ‘register’ with the Lead ship as supporters. For the most part they are fully controlled by the Lead.

This is why the lead needs to be paused (or not started at all), as otherwise it will just fly off…

’Solo Armada Support’

Select ‘Solo Armada Support’ as the automation for each of your support ships and pick your lead ship as the target location.

Here I’ve chosen Ship 4 to match my main ship (D).
That’s it, there is nothing else to configure here.

Ship Abilities?

As mentioned above, you can also select ship abilities for your support ships. These will be activated and renewed by FastTrek as necessary, just like for the lead ship.

Start

‘Start’ the Support ship. When you have started all Support ships, ‘Resume’ the lead.

Alternatively use ‘Start Paused’ on each and finally activate all automations at the same time using ‘Start / Resume All’.

What happens next?

FastTrek will send all ships to the target system, wait for all of them to be ready (the last ship must at least be out of warp), then look for Solo Armada targets. It will then join with the other ships, wait to finish, then target the next.

If any ship in the armada group needs to be recalled according to the criteria set on the lead ship (in my example above 30% hull), all ships will be recalled and repaired before continuing.

No more directives

If you run out of directives, FastTrek will recall the lead and all support ships and end the automation. It will create a notification to let you know.

Known Limitations

• Might run into issues when the system is busy with multiple players running solo armadas at the same time.
• There is a known bug where ghost armadas may continue to display in the system. FastTrek may target but fail to start these.