Geo's right. With max population, a medium world will probably be taken by a medium transport full. And a large one will take a homeworld, esp from an AI, minimal support will be needed to take out the tons of CSM I platforms.
Really, the best defence against a troop invasion is to hit the fleet in space with anything.
I am totally being raped in a current PBW game. My enemy took high aggressive and defensive. I truly,
never hit his ships, and he never misses mine. If I could save the combat summary I would love to show you the carnage.
Anyhow, after losing half a dozen battleships, repeatedly, to the same fleet, I had some old obsolete LC's and I gave them the targeting weakest, no weapons, farthest.
This suicide squadren ignored the warships, which had to wheel around in formation to destroy them.
Before his attack ships could reach me, my obsolete ships destroyed his repair ships, troop transports, mine sweepers, and sensor ship. That truly made a hopeless game a lot of fun.
If that fleet made it to a planet of mine, well, they'd all be speaking whatever language his race uses now.
Always remember that any planet located one month's travel away from a warp point is a sitting duck. Don't put anything there you wouldn't want to lose -- space port, resupply depot, racial facility.
[ September 30, 2003, 19:14: Message edited by: Arkcon ]