[Paul1980au]

Conquering planets in tact is stock of my game (except for moons with 1 mining or resource gathering facility) if its a shipyard or resupply base take it otherwise glass it - bigger planets are where you need to take first. population is everything so maximise their movements.

We have discussed if yu have 2 or 3 different atmosphere races and a domed planet with a urban pacification facility and captured races that can breathe the atmostphere to move all the domed pop off and replace with the atmosphere breathers on the lareger planets it goes from 6 facilties (domed) up to 20 or 30 and you can build much more facilities on non domed planets - and if you are capturing planets - take along a transport with a few WP for larger planets (saves building them and youre outward invasion can go much quicker) instead of having to wait for defenses to be built before moving outwards.