[Slick]

It means that there is a continuing ground combat in session. If there are so many units on each side that the combat can't finish in the 10 rounds, it is suspended and continued on following turns until it is resolved. Only 2 different empires can be in ground combat at 1 time so that's why your troop transports are not participating. The "blockaded" occurs when a planet has enemy ships in orbit and this means that resources produced on the blockaded planet are not sent to the empire's common pool during this time.

Another unshown effect is that the troops, combat and ships are making the planet's population VERY unhappy.

Slick.

[ January 15, 2003, 17:40: Message edited by: Slick ]