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Old August 26th, 2002, 10:14 PM
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Default Re: How do you take over an empty colony?

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Originally posted by Grandpakim:
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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Can't you just attack it with a troop transport?

If you can attack it with ships, surely the transports can capture it...
Hmm.... Give the troop transport 1 weapon, set strategy to point blank. When the transport is adjacent to the planet, maybe it will drop the troops. Worth a try.

Kim

There's a similar problem if you create a "troop transport" with neutron beam weapons (pop. only damage) and low-tech troops. Once the ship reduces the planet population to 0, the combat will generally end, even though the colony still "exists", because the combat engine doesn't account for 0-pop colonies with intact facilities. You can force the issue in tactical by attacking a second time and manually dropping troops, but I don't know a way to force the issue in strategic.
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