Tried doing a search here and on Google for this. Couldn't find anything.
How do I get the ship swarm achievement? I've tried lots of different methods, but nothing worked.
I maxed out my Fleet tech research.
I built my fleet up with ships I wanted. I then scuttled them all and built nothing but scouts (lowest fleet cost) until I maxed it out. Then scuttled one and built the second lowest one getting literally as many ships as I could. Nothing works.
So, what's the deal?
Edit: Capital ships aren't that great.
I sent 300 scouts (yes, the smallest ships you can build) against a lone level 1 cap. They managed to not only kill it, but I lost 0 ships during that as well. I think the capital ship's captain just said, "To hell with it." Right now I have 766 ships (765 scouts, 1 sentinel) walled around his only planet (in the gravity well).
Anyway, FIXED! Seems you have to do the achievement before you Win the game. It was worth it to see all those scouts destroy the capital ship though. 