picking up troops after ground combat

[Suicide Junkie]

I thought that multiple transports wouldn't work - all the militias would come back so if you didn't take them over the first time and they had no Troops then you couldn't take them over with a second transport either...

The militia only come back if ALL of your troops are killed. If your troops happen to have enough shields to survive the first 10 rounds of ground combat, the reinforcements can arrive without the militia being refreshed.

[Master Belisarius]

Originally posted by gravey101:
simultaneous.

It definitely used to work. And definitely does not now. I just ran a test to confirm what I am seeing in PBW games.

Stangly enough, if you give a fleet orders to pick up troops from a planet where they already reside, that works fine.

It still work (in fact I did it yesterday).

The way that works (at least to me!) is with the order ATTACK instead MOVE. Select the order to attack a planet, then, Load Troops, attack other planet, load troops, etc.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Master Belisarius:
It still work (in fact I did it yesterday).

The way that works (at least to me!) is with the order ATTACK instead MOVE. Select the order to attack a planet, then, Load Troops, attack other planet, load troops, etc.

Well, that's probably why I couldn't get it to work. I always use the move to order when attacking planets, because of some problems a long time ago with the attack order that have since been fixed and I never got out of the habit.

Geoschmo

[gravey101]

ah-ha, so you need to attack rather then move. I will try that. Thanks!

[Fyron]

MB, thanks for that info. I can now conquer several planets a turn with 5 medium troops in a certain PBW game.

[Baron Munchausen]

Ah... now this is a cool tip. Definitely something that needs to go into FAQs and other information resources. This is/was a major reason that I don't like sim-move games. Now I have one less reason to avoid them.