[Growltigga]

As SJ says, all troops on a single transport already are one group for the purposes of attacking a planet.

Yeah, this is what I do at the moment. My troop units are named 'Space Marines (1st Division)' or 'Space Marines (Osiris Division)' or whatever. I build say 25 of these guys on a planet and hey presto, you kind of duplicate the effect of having a division of troops by have 25 space marines (1st division). Then you build an assault transport big enough to carry 25 space marines (1st Division) and this gives you the effect of a planetary assault army. Ground combat doesn't differentiate but I have found that if you have identical troop units, some named "space marines (1st division)" and "space marines (2nd division)", you will lose random numbers in each type in ground combat which kind of goes to reflect actual casualties.

one could go as far as changing the troop only weapons

Yep, I have done this to a certain extent but have not changed the values.

I have also renamed the troop units so that you have battalion/regiment/division instead of small/medium/large. I have also renamed certain of the tech's for example, troop cockpit is now command HQ etc - it does give it a better feel

PS Noble713 told me about doing this so he gets full credit for the steer
PPS SJ told me how to do it so he gets credit to that

[ 16 April 2002: Message edited by: Growltigga ]