Fighters Capture Planets?

You need troops to capture planets.

You can capture a planet with fighters, but you have to leave them in cargo and use the Drop Troops order.

You should realy use troops to capture a planet.

Should use troops, but as Brad said, don't have to. I personally don't like fighters, and the fact that you can capture planets makes me hate them even more. I know that's just my personal opinion, people can use them as they will. One day I will stop you...

I haven't tried to capture a planet with fighters but have been told to watch out for it. My informant said the same thing about how it's done as Brad says. He also said that fighters will not be fired on by weapon platforms or troops when they do this. Is that true? What if I arm my ground units with point defense or other weapons that normaly can take out fighters?

I tried to capture a planet the other day with just fighters, and it wouldn't work, this was in 1.66. I had to send over some troops.

I don't know if you can capture a planet with fighters only, or if you have to bring troops along ( at least one for the show )
but you need to drop them like troops .. this does not work if the ship you dry to drop them with has a launch bay installed, because the fighters will not register as cargo then and will not get dropped.

My fighters got shot at ( the view I brought along ) and wasted from other troops ( there were no WPs ). Maybe it depends if the troop weapon is used or any other small weapon that does "space damage" maybe it just depends on "can target"

So if you want to use your fighters as troops, you have to use them like troops.
In the end I don't think its a big difference if you use fighters or troops.

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