Conquering planets.

[Randallw]

When you say Homeworlds can't be taken easily do you mean Hw's have a bonus or is it just becuase they and any other heavily populated world have Billions of people to get lots of Militia from.
I just captured a HW with 4.8 Billion people intact and it took 2 turns because, I am assuming, it took that long to destroy 240 Militia.

Ps. Good thing too since another empire has started to invade my space and I now have to fight them off.

[Abdiel]

Not bonuses per se, but the number of WPs and militia makes it one hell of a fight. And I lose so many troops (relatively, since good troops take pretty long to build) that I can't load them up on the Transport to immediately capture more colonies. No, I prefer to force a surrender

I read somewhere that loading troops with shields first will cause Militia to attack them first, but it hasn't worked in my 1.91 games. No matter the order I load them, the troops with weapons get destroyed still. So does anyone know if troops armed fully with shields are obsolete now?

Abd.

[Phoenix-D]

Drop Troops the *ability* does nothing.

Drop Troops the *order* is required for any invasion.

[Randallw]

Originally posted by Abdiel:
So does anyone know if troops armed fully with shields are obsolete now?

Abd.

My understanding is that Troops, like fighters, as units merely add hit points (or whatever they are called) by adding shields. The shields merely help them Last longer.

[Abdiel]

That, yeah. But shields do count as shields since small PPBs still ignore them.

My question was: Can you build troops with only shields, and by loading them into the transport in some order, make them get hit first by the militias? I read that it was possible, but haven't managed to do it yet.

Abdiel

[Randallw]

I don't know about that but what I would like to know is if the first transport you put in the fleet is the first transport to drop troops. I had 2 transports, one full and one half full. the half full transport dropped first and the small amount of troops lost. If I placed the full transport first, would it drop a full load which might Last long enough to be reinforced by the second wave?

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by Abdiel:
That, yeah. But shields do count as shields since small PPBs still ignore them.

My question was: Can you build troops with only shields, and by loading them into the transport in some order, make them get hit first by the militias? I read that it was possible, but haven't managed to do it yet.

Abdiel

I think you must build X ammount of troops with only shields (X being how many you think is nessercary There is no such thing as Overkill (who'll spot the reference? )) And load them on to your trnasport, then load your troops with weapons and they should drop the shielded troops down first and they'll get pounded.

Numerous troop transports loaded with them is the best tactic: superior numbers.