Capturing planets w/troops?

[shmily_dana]

I just hate that it takes forever to fill a transport with troops. Even having a bunch of planets making the troops, there is a lot of shuffling.

I have also had all the troops disappear after a sucessful invasion. They're not on the planet, they're not on the transport...

[geoschmo]

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I have also had all the troops disappear after a sucessful invasion. They're not on the planet, they're not on the transport...

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Did you happen to leave enemy sat's or bases in orbit around the planet? If you conquer the planet with troops the sats/bases will turn their fire on it. Your troops will receive damage before any population or facilities on the planet.

This has happened to me a few times in tactical, but I could see what was going on, so I knew what happened. If you were playing in strategic I would imagine it would not be so obvious.

Geo



[This message has been edited by geoschmo (edited 19 March 2001).]

[Arralen]

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Originally posted by shmily_dana:
I just hate that it takes forever to fill a transport with troops. Even having a bunch of planets making the troops, there is a lot of shuffling.

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Turn on the "Troops Minister" .. and don't forget to set at least one Troop Transport to minister control, as this minister is of "individual" type.

The AI does a sufficient job on collecting the troops from the various planets .. but don't forget to check sometimes, or the ship will just sit somewhere with all cargo holds full and go nowhere anymore

Hope this helps !

Arralen

PS: Seems to be a little bug with this minister, though - had a transport fill up to ~50%, and than it kept running for the nearest fueling station .. and never started going around again ?! (Maybe that's the cause the AI seldom use it's troops - the troops transports get stuck somewhere in the bureaucratic procedere of aquiring additional fuel )
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