Please to meet you and SEIV questions...

[TNTTony]

Hello everyone. I have been "lurking" in the background of this forum for some time now. I fell in love with SE with SEIII and had to buy SEIV. It was unfortunate that Australia doesn't sell SEIV and I had to buy it from the US which cost me $117...but it was all worth it. I hope I can make a good contribution to these forums.

Now, I have some questions regarding SEIV. I have created some large troop transport ships and have included it in my "Beta Fleet" (has about 24 attack ships). Unfortunately, I found that the troop transport does not drop troops in planets. In fact the other attack ships destroy the planet even before my transport can drop troops. If I just use my transport by itself, it gets destroyed by the weapon platforms and sats

My questions is this: If you want to capture planets, what is a good combination of ships to use, such that the weapon platforms and sat is destroyed BUT the population remain intact so that my troop transport will drop troops and capture the planet.

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks in advance.

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