capturing planets in PBW games

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
What if you have all troop transports and no attack ships? Will they try to take the planet anyway, even if there are weapons platforms?

Sometimes I want to send in a heavily shielded/ armoured transport to take the weapons platforms intact.

I've done that against the AI. The troop transport, if it has one weapon, like CSM, will stay with the fleet be closer when it's time to drop troops. 'Tho more often than not, it gets targeted by the weapon platforms and vaporized.

It is fun to use well defended troop ships to capture a planet with weapon platforms intact -- and have the planet start shooting down sats, fighters, space yards in orbit.

[ January 22, 2003, 13:52: Message edited by: Arkcon ]