"Physical Strength" racial trait

[Spoo]

How does "Physical Strength" affect ground combat? If I lower it to 50%, will I always lose ground combats, or will I simply need twice as many troops?

[Aiken]

If it lowers both attack and defense of troops, I believe you'll need four times as many troops to achive same results as with 100% Phys Str. So the question will be: if it reduces both att and def or not?

[geoschmo]

You definetly don't "lose all ground combats". It's simply a matter of needing more troops to have the same effect. Whether it's two times or four times I don't know. Against most planets, I hardly notice a difference. It's only when trying to capture a planet with a lot of population like a homeworld, or one where the defender has built some defensive troops. Against the normal colony with a couple hundred million population the piddling few defensive militia generated still are unable to stop even a small transport full of early tech small troops. You might lose one or two where you wouldn't have lost any.

[ March 24, 2004, 16:07: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Combat Wombat]

I don't quite know how the percent affects ground combat, but whatever the effect is, it doesn't outweigh the ammount of points you get for bringing down to 50%

[PvK]

... unless you're playing PvK Balance mod ...

[spoon]

Originally posted by PvK:
... unless you're playing PvK Balance mod ...

Even then, it's free points, just not as many!