Militia and troops.

[tmcc]

I think basically that stock militia should be very weak against well equiped and well trained military units. Look at real world Earth. Even the difference between very well equipped and trained military forces vs. average military forces is absolutely decisive.

One option would be to mod in Militia training facilities. This way you would have to make an investment in research and valuable real estate to improve the war fighting capability of you militia. The results could be in the area of damage done and to hit modifiers for militia units.

[Q]

I don't like to talk about realism in a game like SE (although you could argue about the difficulties the number one military power on earth today has in certain countries against very rudimentery equipped "militias").

I just think that it is not good if you can conquer a homeworld with 20-30 small troops without shields and one louzy depleted uranium cannon. That makes the first strike option against any encountered empire in the beginning of the game too strong. I like it better if in the early game destroying or conquering a homeworld is almost impossible.

But everone has his taste of the game and the beauty is you can mod it accordingly.

[tmcc]

Regarding the Iraq refernce it depends entirely on if you are talking about seizing control or eliminating all resistance. There has always been and always will be partisan resistance following a military conquest. the Romans dealt with it and so will the generations to come. perhaps there should be negative production and resource modifiers on conquered worlds for a a few years after.

I agree completely though that 20-30 small troops should not be able to take a homeworld. In fact I did not know this because I didn't even try.