Conquering planets.

[Abdiel]

Originally posted by Ragnarok-X:
drops troops does nothing, its not used. About your other question, i dont think thats possible.

Load a Transport up with 50 troops, send it to any square immediately adjacent to the enemy planet, Order Drop Troops, and hey presto the planet is yours

SJ is right, it's really good to take over their planets instead of glassing them. You don't have to build them up from the ground again (and you have to build colonizers!), the planet doesn't suffer losses in production possibility, and they act as staging points to further your fleet's assault. Win-win for me, lose-lose for them

Be careful though, satellites and any other units in space are not captured, and -will- fire on your newly captured planet immediately, possibily losing you some nice facilities.

Abd.