Starship Troopahs |
Question is I have the balance mod and I am trying to drop troops and take over a planet. I can only do it successfully if I put all my ships in a massive fleet with fleet orders to Capture Planet.
But what happens is...my fleet wipes out all the fighters then RETREATS and the drop ships go down with 2 others and they drop the troops...but both the dropships AND the two escorts are sacrificed.
Any simple way to avoid this? I mean I tried almost every strategy and the one I really wanted to use was send in a fighter swarm ahead of the dropships but could not figure out a decent way to do it.
I mean the way I got it WORKS but its an auto-sacrifice of 4 very nice ships...
Re: Starship Troopahs
You do not need to have the strategy set to "capture planet". If the attacking fleet (doesn't have to be IN a fleet), has any ship that will launch troops, when you tell it to launch troops, the rest of the fleet will destroy anything that will interfere with the planet capture.
I find that the "target ring" option allows me to see if there are still active defenses on the planet.
Another option, is run the troop carrier to the edge of the map, THEN tell it to invade. The rest of your ships will have moved closer to the planet, but as soon as you give the invade order, they will not kill the entire planet. Your troop carrier then will have to move back to the planet to drop troops, giving your ships time to eliminate defenses.
You can use fighters to invade, simply place then on your troop carrier with your troops. The troop carrier must NOT be able to launch them (no fighter bay). Then they will land like troops. Make sure that they have weapons that work on the ground.
Re: Starship Troopahs
If you aren't manually controlling everything, you certainly do need to set the fleet to capture planet strategy. Its best to follow that practice for when you get into multiplayer games, or for that time you decide to let an invasion combat auto-resolve.
Re: Starship Troopahs
Dropping troops/fighters on a planet does not "sacrifice" them.. Are there intact weapon platforms or something? You'll probably want to make sure your strategy is set to destroy them before dropping troops.
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