A Question About Taking Planets Over...

It is extremely advantageous but it can be difficult.

If you conquer the planet you not only instantly get all the facilities on the planet but also the population, who might allow you to fully colonise another planet (if they breathe that atmosphere). In fact if they breathe the atmosphere on the planet you conquer you can get all the facilities you can on it rather than your own colony being domed, and thus limited.

I have been lucky on a few occasions that my attack has destroyed the enemy defences and the population, a bit of a loss, but the colony remains. My enemy can't build anymore defences as he has no population, so I drop one troop to claim the colony.

If the colony doesn't have any troops then it will get militia, which is one minor troop unit for every certain number of colonists. I'm not really certain how many you need per militia though, 40? 100? soemone else could explain it.

I have a game where we are limited to only our own planet type. Only by trading for ships or colonies can we get another type. My race, a bunch of insects, doesn't treade and half my economy is from enemy colonies I conquered.

What Randalw says. You can get quick boosts to your empire in capturing planets. Capturing a world at the front with a shipyard on it saves you zounds of turns before you can produce there! Massive advantages.

I might me in the same game as Randalw... or else a similar game. I have a large number of conquered worlds too and they are greatly advantageous to my growth. Especially the pile of homeworlds make a nice contribution!

It's risky though... when the enemy starts to get enough weapon platforms they can blow your troop ships out of the sky. That makes it more pricy than to just conquer any world you see. But so far I'm quite happy with the conquest results!

~Myrath

Taking a planet can also allow you to capture a space port and resupply depot. These 2 structures also provide help in maintaining your captured planet.

I have found that 11 troops on any world will provide enough militia support to prevent revolts.

I like to send in 1 + number of exiting warp points. Take and Guard the exiting warp points, and have your extra fleet take planets. I usually try to take one system at a time.

Since I survey the target system, I also have the colonizers and transports ready to capitalize on the system for resources.

I like to capture planets but truth be told it's generally more efficient to just glass it from orbit and recolonise. You can only capture one planet per turn with each troop transport but you can glass as many as you can reach with your fleet's movement. Depends on the colony though - if it has a large population of a race that breathes a different atmosphere from yours and/or already has a lot of facilities it can be worth capturing.

I wouldn't say more efficient. faster? yes. Easier? also yes. but in the long run you do get better benefits from conquest.

In SEIV, militia was in addition to any troops on the planet. I doubt that has changed in SEV, but I haven't tried to invade a planet yet in any of my SEV games.

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Hmm, it appears you can actuall design your militia in this game. O_O'

Or at least you can in simulator. It seems to use the first small troop entry in your list.

yeah I noticed, however I thought it was the weakest troop you had. Therefore I edited the weakest troop I had so if it was going to be the basis for a militia it might as well be strong.

I prefer going in with a cloaked frigate as a troop carrier.

> you move onto the planet with the cloaked ship (alone - no escorts or other ships)
> you uncloak and then attack with the frigate - notice that you start right next to the planet! Turn the combat speed way down. Drop your troops immediately and run for your life - just make SURE that the troops are on the way down before breaking orbit. Otherwise you might have wasted a frigate for nothing.

the cloak idea is also advantageous as you can reposition it to be on the side of planet with less defenders. good luck getting it in place though. AIs do sometimes research sensor tech.