Wonderful Game - a few bugs
 

I received this game on Friday (my first Shrapnel game) and have spent around 45 hours on it since (so much for my marriage and graduate school ;p). Wonderful game!!!!

A few bugs I noticed (these may have been posted, I don't have time to read all the Posts here - not if I want to play while avoiding school work... lol):

No minesweepers for AI, they just kept running my gauntlet and getting bLasted

Troop/Ground combat seems very confusing and hard to operate - this may not be a bug but I surrounded a planet with three transports (to swamp them) and couldn't unload them http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon9.gif Don't know why.

Where do I find specs on the "special" techs? (metallurgy etc.).... or do I just have to play with them?

None of these detract from an incredibly deep game!!! This is better (by far) than any game I've played yet which is 4x and I've played since around 1980 http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif Good Job!!!!

Re: Wonderful Game - a few bugs
 

To use ground combat you have to be in the same sector as the planet. Either use tactical combat or make sure you have the right strategy selected for your ships in Strategic combat. I don't use strategic combat often so I don't know the name of that strategy. You have to make sure that if there are defences on the planet or ships in orbit that you can defeat them also because you have to be adjacent to the planet with your troop transports to start ground combat.