Sir Valiant the stout!

Valiant looks great on paper, how does it hold up in the game?

By Specialist_AKA_Specs

The raid is well underway, and I am sure many have been wondering if I was full of it with my piece on why I think the Valiant should be a priority. While I do not have much to go on yet, only found one base with the hull and I built three myself to try to get some testing. I am pretty happy with what I am seeing.

I am going to present to you a video with my base hit on the base I found with Legend Ranked Valiant with the Calamity as a lead ship. The second video is going to be the hit on my base with my unranked Valiants.

In the first portion of the video, you see that I could not outrange the Valiant with the Calamity. That tells me that while the range is not correct in base view, once you enter battle it is the 102 that I expected to see. You also see that once I got into range, it melted me in a hurry. That is what we are hoping to see, and yes it means that it is going to be harder to take bases with this hull and weapon combo.

In the second portion of the video, you see that he approaches my defense fleet in a hope to pick off my one Vanquisher. Once that is gone, he can get by the corner much easier. That gave my Turrets time to finish him off which is what I intended. The claim could be made that he stacked them to attack and if he sent one at a time, he might have faired better. That is fair, and hopefully, someone will do that soonish so I can video it. The last guy that did that to me did get to the OP, but his fleet died before he got me 100%.

I am excited for the possibility of this hull, and I hope that as more players get it built, we can see the benefit to our base defense.