[geoschmo]

I think troops being destroyed in orbital bombardment is fairly accurate. The scale of orbital bombardment would be far larger than anything done in Kosovo. Those were at least intended to be surigcal strikes (however inept they were) that eliminated the troops and did as little collataral damage as possible. That is far easier to hide from than an orbital bombardment taking out whole facilities and populations by the millions.

Sure a large number of tropps could be disperesed and hidden, but they would be so dispersed they would be unable to fight effectivly against organized units of invading troops. So in actuality they would be no better than militia anyway.

Don't try to equate the units in SE4 as literal tanks and tropps and it makes more sense. Think of them as divisions or batallions. You may not kill all the individual units, but take out the command and control and you eliminate their effective fighting force.

Where you will get troop to troop ground combat is when you have an invading force that really wants to take the population and facilities intact. Then they will avoid orbital bombardment entirely. It's more of a role play thing.

Geoschmo