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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
Since this will be strategic combat, how do you plan to prevent the planet being nuked to glass if the troops fail to take the planet? The battle AI seems to be quite eager to kill everything.
If the 'dont fire on planets' function is not up to par for keeping fleets from gunning for planets, then i guess you better make sure that your landing party succeeds. The attack method I was thinking of was to send in a blocade fleet to take out any orbital defense, and send the troop lander in a turn, or a few moves later on seperate orders.