Has anyone ever seen AI use troops and capture a planet

geoschmo · #1 February 12th, 2001, 11:29 PM

Well, it's been a while since I've seen it happen. Maybe my memory is playing tricks on me.

Aussie Gamer · #2 February 13th, 2001, 02:30 AM

What's the point of troops. I tried to invade a home world with around 200 Med troops and got completely destroyed.

Even if you have say three big transports you can only land one at a time during Tactical combat.
Why can't you land ALL of the troops at once???

Drake · #3 February 13th, 2001, 02:40 AM

If you don't destroy the weapons platforms on a planet, you can have problems. Otherwise, unless you're setting your ground combat really low, it shouldn't be that big a deal to take over a planet with one freighter full of troops.

What kind of weapons are you giving your troops? I like the small organic ones, namely the electric discharge or whatever it's called. Not only is it good damage per turn, you can build troops more quickly because of the balanced mineral costs.

-Drake

Aussie Gamer · #4 February 13th, 2001, 07:32 AM

I had it set to 75% and had organic weapons.

But the still think that the biggest problem is that you can not land all of your fleeted transports on the planet at one time.

If you land a 1 of them at a time, the chances are that you lose each combat. But if you where able to land them all at once then you would win!

Just a thought!