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Old April 11th, 2005, 12:41 PM

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Default Re: Drop troops on planet in Strategic

Gee, why don't we all answer at once?
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A common problem that is subtle is that it is better to use beam weapon ships over missile ships. You didn't mention what your ships were armed with so I'd mention this. The reason is that the tactic is to have your fleet stop shooting once the planet is defenseless, but before it is glassed. With missile ships, oftentimes the ship is bombarded into oblivion too easily. Also, even if the missile ships stop firing once the planet is defenseless, they may have another salvo "in the air" which will proceed to the planet and possibly destroy it.

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Greetings,

Thank you very much with all the answers!!!

Question: If I go to ship design and change the strategy there, will it be applied to all my transports or just the ones I build after the change?

Also, I am using the Star Trek mod (Normal mod, I had the same problem) and my ships are equiped with PD canons and photon torpedoes.

Now I need to find where I indicates how to break formation... Any hint?

Thank you very much again!
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ALL ships are effected by a change in strategy, whenever its made.

And break formation is in the strategies screen, IIRC thats under empires.
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You have to select all the types of ships that break formation. Select them all; it's usually the best way to do strategic combat.
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