Unarmed troops make your people happy!

[Suicide Junkie]

Basically, they just provide more hitpoints & block weapons, so your militia survives longer!

I'd suggest adding some armor or a shield on your unarmed units. The price won't go up much, and you'll get them to survive a lot more damage. The combat will end in a stalemate, and next turn, any dead militia will be back, and can continue the fight against the enemy.

when I say a lot more, I mean, with a small shield III, Sixty-Five TIMES more damage


[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 08 April 2001).]

[chewy027]

Wow, I'll have to start using this trick

[raynor]

Good point about the shielding. Of course, with my play style, if the AI gets past my ships, I pretty much write off the planet as I never build weapon platforms or satellites.

[Suicide Junkie]

Of course, with the AI's playstyle, the groung defence is pretty unimportant. Against a human who would be more likely to try capturing the planet, it will help.

[mottlee]

Cool trick, I like to use troops so I would wind up and load the wrong ines and drop em so you can guess what will happen

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[TaeraRepublic]

Hm, thats a nice idea - create l. troop with only armor and shields, and add some l. troops with weapons. L. troops get hit, small fire back.

[raynor]

I started this topic was because I thought it was interesting that 'empty' troops seemed to provide the same happiness benefit as fully loaded troops. (Once again, I gained that impression from reading Mephisto's comments.)

In fact, I would be willing to bet that you are better off building ten small troops rather than the same cost in fully decked out large troops. I'm betting the game assigns a certain happiness improvement on a per troop basis.