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Originally posted by Slick:

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Will that work in strategic combat? I thought transports always waited until the weapon platforms were dead...

Semi-true. There are cases where an armed Troop Transport will attack a planet. A Troop Transport will rush the planet when any of the following are true:

- It is the only attacking ship (as was probably intended by the statement that prompted this question)

- Planet WP's are destroyed.

- (not exactly sure about the exact coding on this one...) Other attacking ships are either weaponless (PDC do not count as weapons), killed, or *possibly* disabled. Bottom line on this one is that the TT will rush the planet if the remainder of the attacking ships are unable to attack the planet. Maybe someone else can nail down this one exactly.

- maybe other situations (?)

Slick.

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You can make you transports charge planet, fire on planet and drop troops even before all WP gone.
For this, ALL ships with weapons in your fleet must have troops on board and have "capture planet" strategy. If you have just one armed ship without troops, only that ship will fire on planet while all armed transports will wait till all WP are gone or that ship is killed. Only then they will assault planet.