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[b]I dunno, I'd rather spend my research points on ships than investing research points and resources building up troops so I can save a few planetsary facilities... On a huge planet, maybe it's worth it, but I'd rather rebuild personally.
The research cost is pretty trivial, isn't it? If you've already researched Construction to get either Mines or Fighters, then isn't it just 50,000 for small troops and 15,000 or so to get Ground Cannon III?
In 1.19, the AI made some dumb decisions about what to build. But the 1.27 AI seems at least twice as good. I would much, much rather save the resources required to build the facilities and get the extra resource production immediately rather than wait 5 to 25 turns to rebuild all the facilities. Plus, I WANT the colonists that breathe a different atmosphere.
The only time I *don't* use troops is in the endgame when I have more resources than I know what to do with and just go around destroying stuff as quickly as possible.
[This message has been edited by raynor (edited 12 March 2001).]
Re: Ground Combat - anyone use it?
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