Destroying weapon platforms so you can safely invade.

Disrupter weapons damage weapons only I believe not sure how well they work though as I have not used them I. It is also possible to land troops whilst the weapon platforms are still armed since unless you are playing a Mod which changes this weapon platforms are more or less useless once you have landed troops. It does mean that you have to design properly armoured and shielded assault ships. It’s also a good idea to equip them with a lot of PD as missile armed weapons platforms will need that as a counter.

All you have to do is have your assault ships withstand the planets fire long enough to drop troops and fighters when taking the planet becomes a mater of ground combat. To drop fighters put them in the cargo of the Assault ships along with troops

It may be possible to mod a damage type in that does this. There is a 'Allows placement (usage?)' value in the damage types. When the formula returns true a target can be hit. This is used for the various disruptor weapons to target specific components. I haven't checked, but the Smart Bomb damage types may use something similar that could be altered to make a WP Only damage type.

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Inter-Related Mod has such a weapon. Not sure if it works (yet to test it), but it exists.

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If you look at the code there is a possibility that you can restrict the fire of a weapon to a certain unit ergo the smart bomb that takes out spaceports and spaceyards. I have not tried this but if you edit the type line in the component text that identifies the type of things the weapon fires on i.e. ship/base/satellite/mine/troop/weapon platform/drone it may work. Interesting question.

Of course Evilginger has a point. There are weapons that striclty affect certain components...just not sure without looking what you can target with those...may be possible to edit their targeting toward weapons platforms as well as ships.

It is supposed to. I did spend a lot of time making it works.

It does work... But specific targeting is tough to say the least

I don't think you can choose wich platforms will reicive the payload, but you should only damage the plats and nothing else...

Thanks for clarifying, you are correct you cannot aim at a specific plat (what I was implying), but you will only hit the plats.

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