Clearing Platforms Before Capturing Planet |
Submitted by Roxton on Thu, 2008-01-31 08:37.
Space Empires V General
I've found that if I have a fleet with the strategy "Capture Planet", in strategic combat my troop-carrier's armed escorts will flee the scene after killing hostile ships without destroying weapons platforms. At that point, my troop carrier comes in and gets annihilated. Is there a way to configure the fleet so that the armed escorts destroy the weapons platforms before flying off?
I'm using stock SE5 v1.66.
Re: Clearing Platforms Before Capturing Planet
Submitted by Dvoongar on Fri, 2008-02-01 20:33.
First, you need to be sure and use separate TFs for the troop carrier ships.
Second, I'm thinking since 1.66 I may have seen similar behaviour without really noticing it. I'll be watching more closely from now on.
Re: Clearing Platforms Before Capturing Planet
Sure, in your Empire Options under Strategies, edit the strategy you use for those armed escorts and make sure you have an engagement distance and percent to kill (100%) for weapons platforms. Personally, I find it alot easier to just click on the Set All Engagement Distance button and set that, then do the same for Set All Damage button. Of course, in your situation I wouldn't do that since if you did the escorts would attack the planet/population itself and end up glassing it perhaps before you could land troops. Just go through the options for each type of thing: planets with colonies, etc.