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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
send the transports in alone and hope.
Phoenix-D
No, the 'capture planet' strategy will not work unless the planet has had its weapons removed by other forces. The transport will just run away. I suppose you could build a very heavily armored/shielded transport and put ONE weapon in it to make it attack the planet with the other ships. Would it drop the troops before the planet's weapons were gone even if it were close enough? Dunno... better give it a short range weapon. But if you give it a planetary weapon I think it will be a priority target for the defenses.
If this
does work, then a whole new method of attacking planets might open up. Build whole fleets of planet capturing ships that are a mix of weapons and cargo bays and send them all in. If even one survives then some troops get dropped on the planet.
If the numbers dropped by a single ship are enough to survive the 10 rounds of ground combat then they can build up as other ships get close enough to drop theirs.