Riot Runs, Chain Attacks.

[Alneyan]

Note that some of us (myself included) cannot load troops the turn they conquer a planet, so we make the fleet go back one sector and go back to the newly captured planet. I am not sure why, but it always failed for me whenever I tried it directly.

Well, now I know. Thanks Douglas.

[geoschmo]

There are downsides to capturing several worlds in a row like this. If all your troops get killed on the first attack you end up glassing planets. Also if you capture a planet with a resupply facility and move on during the same turn, your fleet doesn't get refueled. There is also a problem sometimes if your attack fleet has carriers in it. Sometimes your carriers will pickup your troops instead of your troop ship. Then the next planet you hit will be glassed because your troop ship will be empty and your carriers won't have the correct orders. I think you can avoid that by naming your troop ship something so that it is before the carriers alphabetically. But it's been a while since I played around with that. You can also avoid it by giving your carriers the "Capture planet" strategy in the design window. If they have troops they will drop them, and if they don't they will behave like they normally do.

[Slick]

I think you also need to give your carriers the class of Troop Ship for the Capture Planet strategy to work. Without troops, they behave as normal carriers.

[brianeyci]

Hrm. So I was not hallucinating when I remembered someone mentioning a troop loading bug. Good thing that's cleared up now.

Brian

[PvK]

Slick said:
I think you also need to give your carriers the class of Troop Ship for the Capture Planet strategy to work. Without troops, they behave as normal carriers.

No, they just need to have cargo holding troops, and a primary move strategy of "Drop Troops (if carrying)".

PvK

[Fyron]

Slick said:
I think you also need to give your carriers the class of Troop Ship for the Capture Planet strategy to work. Without troops, they behave as normal carriers.

All you need to do is assign the strategy Capture Planet or Drop troops or whatever it is. No need to assign class Troop Ship. All that the class does is assign the Capture Planet strategy to the ship design by default.

[Electrum]

Imperator Fyron said:
assing the strategy

I think I saw Randy Moss do this during the Vikings Last playoff game.

[Fyron]

oi

[brianeyci]

As an aside... is there any advantage at all to designing a troop in stock game other than this type,

Cockpit
3x Ground Cannon

I find that other designs are less potent/pointless. Putting ECM/Combat sensors/Armor/Shields seems to be a waste. In ground combat, does the defender or the attacker get first strike? Because to me, it always seems to be the attacker, and with 3x Ground Cannon which get an inherent bonus of around 2.5, that's a lot of population you need to have just to survive the first volley.

<edit> nm I found the answer from the FAQ, defenders shoot first and get 30% bonus </edit>

Brian