[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Skulky:
This is rather a grouping of a bunch of my questions i've gathered in the month long absence from these Boards:

1. Anyone have good suggestions on how to capture planets? And if so is it anymore efficient to capture them instead of glassing, say against a 150+ planet strong empire would it be worth it to try and capture them all?

2. When playing against a TDM race that has been fully blockaded by my ships and has a score of 13.0K to my 1.1M they still won't surrender or give me anything. What's up wiht that?

3. After reading The Shiva Option (great book) how could you design SRHAWK's, SBMHAWK's and RD2's? could you use drones? and how would you do warp point assaults without succumbing to the minefields? Last thought is how would you replicate gunboats? I really want to make a mod for this universe, posibly a scenario too its such a sick book no doubt.

4. What's the dealio with organic armor on non-ships, does it still work?

5. Relating to 1, how many people does each little militia dude in the combat display represent?

Well, thanks for all your help, i bet someone will answer this before i even post... haha. But yeah i might get some more Q's i finally got into gold and it rocks.

1) Build troops, drop troops. It's the only way to capture planets other than the 'Puppet Political Parties' intelligence operation, and that's risky. They declare independence more often then they join you.

Deciding if it's 'worth it' to capture lots of planets is a matter of your game play preferences. Some people like the challenge of capturing rather than slagging the entire colony off the planet and starting over. Some people only capture 'crucial' planets and slag the rest. And some people are genocidal lunatics who would rather nuke aliens than look at them.

2) An AI can be setup to not surrender under any circumstances. It's a setting in the AI files under that race's directory.

3) I haven't read 'The Shiva Option' so I don't know what you're talking about. It would be nice if drones were more flexible and mines were less of an 'all or nothing' effect, though.

4) No, armor regeneration does not occur on units. Organic armor is still good armor for a drone, satellite, or WP but you won't get the regeneration.

5) There's nothing in the game to indicate how many people a militia unit 'stands for'. But if you want to know how many militia will appear when you invade there's a simple formula. Divide the population by the 'Defending Units Per Population' setting in SETTINGS.TXT -- the default is 20.