[Fyron]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
"So can a few 1000 large shield troops."

Troops can be killed from orbit; militia can't unless you bombard down the population (and, incidently, destroy facilities)

Unless you use Neutron Radiation bombs, which kill only population. But, this all requires tactical combat. In strategic combat (where all of this actually matters, for MP games), troops will not be destroyed by continued bombardment when there are troop transports attacking. The WPs always get destroyed first, and ships stop firing on the planet once all WPs are gone.