Re: Are We Evil?
I like to avoid genocide, just for economic reasons. I've never played it Gryphin's way, but I may have to try that soon.
In a TDM/FQM game recently I was trying to beat the Rage down enough that they'd surrender. Yeah, the Rage. Surrender. So that didn't happen. But in the process I tried to take their homeworld in Tac combat (High-Med TDM is being difficult, so I'm using Tac)
It had 16 billion on it, and I had two ships of one hundred troops each. Just like expecting the Rage to surrender once I had ten times their score I expected that many troops could take a homeworld. Well, that many troops can't take and FQM homeworld.
The first ship dropped it's troops and they just went away. Dang militia ate them and asked for seconds.
So spent the next twenty-two turns pelting the world with PPB from orbit. This killed about twelve billion Rage, but allowed my troops to take the planet. The Resupply Depot survived the orbital bombardment, so I got just about everything I wanted.
Gryph, would you practice the wholesale slaughter of billions prior to a troop landing?
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