Question about conquering the planet

[couslee]

send in the point-blank bombers and use tactical mode? or would that kill the ally's troops and "save the whales".

[Fyron]

Drop more troops from more transports. Each drop of troops causes a new round of ground combat in the turn, and all of your troops on the planet will fight together, increasing the damage you do.

[Suicide Junkie]

Only 2 different empires can be in ground combat at 1 time so that's why your troop transports are not participating.

Gift the transports to your ally so he can drop the troops as reinforcments to his own attack force, thus crushing the enemy.

Be sure to arrange how the spoils of war will be divvied up before you do

[DirectorTsaarx]

Originally posted by Slick:
It means that there is a continuing ground combat in session. If there are so many units on each side that the combat can't finish in the 10 rounds, it is suspended and continued on following turns until it is resolved.
Slick.

Don't forget that some mods reduce the number of ground combat rounds per turn from 10 to 2 (P&N and Proportions, IIRC). That has the effect of making it more likely for ground combat to Last multiple turns...