9 Kings: "Universe 25" Tips? (the One with the Rats)

The problem

I have said "this looks easy" to myself about a thousand times now. I'm sure to be saying it more at this rate.

What players suggest

This is not true, you can use all rats, but you do have to commit and know how to build an all rat army, the rule for an all rat army is literally "first many groups of rats, than a group of many rats" Every time I've done it the bottom row is going to get a level as its blessing, so the key if you're playing rats is to condense your rats down to only about 7 groups that are all connected, then…

The all rats army doesn't scale fast enough without the "+4 levels on rat placement" perk, and since you start 5 levels in and are against Stone, you either need to reroll Stone combats to not lose too much (you can defeat the first Stone attack easily, and sometimes the second) or just ignore the rats (what I ended up doing). Earthworks + migration on one of the top left rats to make them…

So I finally did win, sort of using a hybrid of all these tips into my build. I think the Futurism decree helped me the most. I missed the roll for it the first try but i kept going and actually got it the 2nd time the choices came around. By then I had defenders down, plus executioners. Since i had kinda given up after missing the decree the first time around, I had thrown down raptors, a mob…