Question, help on planet troops please.

[HEMAN]

To Anybody who knows,
Q:If My ground troops win/capture of a ai enemy planet.Is it Possible to get free facility/unit planet tecknoligy from a ai empire?. Im curious if i should research/build troops in the current Gold-D-2 mode.
As far as i know, i can only get enemy tecks by ship units boarding only.


Ferengi Rules of Acquisition #9 Opportunity plus instinct equals profit.

[ June 07, 2004, 07:33: Message edited by: HEMAN ]

[dogscoff]

Nope. You get to use any units and facilities that survive ground combat, but there's no way to analyse them.

[Slick]

You do get the benefits of any surviving facilities, though, even if you cannot build any more. A great one to capture is a pyschic ship or fleet training facility. Those will increase your ship/fleet experience for all ships/fleets in the system. There are other good ones to capture too.

Slick.

[HEMAN]

Thanks for the timly response fellows.Oh well,Now i know,Ill just keep ship bombard ai planets normally. I thought at one time in a game long ago,i had ai as a partner,and if that ai empire partner is destroyed?,i get his tecknollgie.Oh well I must be dreaming .


Ferengi Rules Of Acquisition #10 Greed is eternal.

[Atrocities]

I have found that the best method to capture a planet is to build 100 assualt transports, set them to wall, and capture planet. I have captured many homeworlds this way. Sure I lose many of these ships, but it is sooooooooo cool to see the planet captured with all of its defenses and facilities intact. And as a rule, 105. Troops are a cheap expendable and renuable resource. Use and abuse them.

[se5a]

meh at - just use 100 dreads with 1 cargo bay and fill it with sheelds and armor.

[Randallw]

I always asumed dropping troops a bit at a time would fail. the first 10 troops are defeated, then the next 10, and the next 10. Is the truth that all the troops land before combat begins?.

[Suicide Junkie]

Not before it begins... but if you have enough shields on the first troops they can survive long enough for the reinforcements to arrive.

Or in mods that either reduce the number of ground combat rounds, decrease troop damage or increase troop hitpoints... then you'll be able to drop however you please and not be wiped out instantly and repeatedly.

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by se5a:
meh at - just use 100 dreads with 1 cargo bay and fill it with sheelds and armor.

You miss the point, the Dreads will fire on the planet unless you run the turn manually. What we need are weapons that can be set to target specific things like Weapon Platforms.

[Suicide Junkie]

Originally posted by Atrocities:

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Originally posted by se5a:
meh at - just use 100 dreads with 1 cargo bay and fill it with sheelds and armor.

You miss the point, the Dreads will fire on the planet unless you run the turn manually. What we need are weapons that can be set to target specific things like Weapon Platforms.

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Shields and armor... no mention of weapons.

Given a capture planets strategy, they'll run the gauntlet and drop troops.
Probably need more cargo in order to secure a beachhead on breathable worlds though...