Newbie help question: problem with ground attack

[Fyron]

Did you try giving the fleet the Capture Planet strategy too?

[Merry Jolkar]

Thank you for the quick reply! Yes, I did give the fleet the Capture Planet strategy.

In fact, the only way I know to assign a strategy is by assigning the ship to a fleet, and assigning the fleet a strategy. Can one assign strategies to ships that are not in fleets? And, can one assign a default strategy to different ship designs, to avoid having to assign strategy anew each time a ship is built?
Thanks!

[Fyron]

In the Design Window, there is a Ship Strategies button. Click it, and you can set the default strategy for the ships. Troop Transporst MUST be given the Capture Planet strategy by default (or some custom variation), or they will never drop troops in strategic combat.

[Krsqk]

One way this problem can happen is if your design is not given a design type of "Troop Transport." IIRC, "Troop Transport" automatically defaults to ship strategy of "Capture Planet"; using something else like "Population Transport" or creating a generic "Transport" defaults to "Don't Get Hurt."

[Merry Jolkar]

Thank you for your helpful advice. Where can I go to learn about how the fleet strategy and the ship strategy interact? e.g., if my fleet strategy is set to "optimum range" and some ships are set to "ram" and others to "maximum range", what should I expect to happen?? Thanks again -- it's a deep game and I am really enjoying learning it.

[Taera]

For the most part of it fleet strategy comes before individual ship strategy but this doesnt work sometimes. In patch beta this has been found as a bug and ships were made to always listen only to their fleet strategy.

Untill then i find it easier to put some variation of capture planet strategy on both ships and the fleet.

Second problem would most likely be solved by assigning appropiate strategies to those ships.

[Echo Mirage]

Merry,

Have a good hard look at the ship design type for your transport ship. Ensure that it reads "Troop transport", this more than likely defines the ships logic.

~ E-M