Multiple planet captures

Slaughtermeyer · #1 December 29th, 2001, 02:03 AM

Is there a special trick to capture many planets by the same fleet in the same simultaneous turn? I've seen it happen with a fleet that contained only one transport, but when I try it using the load troops command, it doesn't seem to work, and I can't think of anything else.

CW · #2 December 29th, 2001, 04:21 AM

If you are in tactical combat and the two planets are right next to each other (no room in between), then you select the planet you have captured and click drop troop. I'm not sure about strategic combat though.

shino6 · #3 December 30th, 2001, 06:28 AM

I have not seen any way to do it in strategic combat. My fleets always drop troops on the first planet they come across, then bombard the second planet to slag. *grumble*

This is something I wish they would fix in a future patch. There was one time I was partnered with a human friend of mine in a multiplayer game, and there was an enemy AI occupying a moon orbitting the main planet my friend had colonized. I set my fleet on "capture planet" and went after the AI.

My fleet promptly captured my friend's planet, then blew up the AI moon. This is most definitely an improperly implemented feature.

- Shino6

Will · #4 December 30th, 2001, 07:27 AM

Use more than one transport if you want to capture multiple planets. Once the troops are dropped on a planet, you can't pick them up during combat, and the only way the other planet can be captured is if they happen to be "touching" (check the squares in the mini-map). This probably will not work in strategic, as the captured planet probably won't have a "Capture Planet" strategy.

And, to prevent capturing your friend's planets, you should try establishing a TREATY.

shino6 · #5 December 30th, 2001, 08:23 AM

Read my post more carefully. ;-) I was in a PARTNERSHIP and my ships still attacked his planet.

Bug.

- Shino6

Phoenix-D · #6 December 30th, 2001, 09:15 AM

Look at it this way: if you hadn't captured his planet, you probably would have glassed it!

Combat can have only two sides. I bet your friend wasn't at war/non-intercourse with the AI, was he? That means that his units are considered allied with the AI IF you are the one attacking. If you were parked there and the AI attacked, he'd ally with you.

Phoenix-D