Some New Player Qs

[Suicide Junkie]

Atraikius:
Yes, I know. But I had other things I really wanted to spend RPs for.
I knew ahead of time that I would need to bring more troops in order to make up for the 50% modifier, and so I did.
In the end, I sent in a total of about 1700 small tanks. They were all produced using excess resources, so they didn't really cost me anything.

700 of them fought for almost two years of game time (at two GC rounds per turn), and were finished off just before reinforcements arrived.
1000 more attacked shortly after, a third of them were lost in space when the transport fell to Platform Fire, and the remainder captured the planet with minimal casualties two months later.

I believe the reason why my initial force lost, but my second force of the same size won shortly after was that the AI was emergency building troops to fight off my first wave.
By the time the planet started rioting and the troop factories shut down, it was too late for my forces, and the militia were winning.
They then couldn't build any reinforcements against my second wave due to the riots.

That was a very entertaining campaign