FreeOrion

First off - THANK YOU for such a cool game! I really loved the series, and this has been an enjoyable game to play. The learning curve has been a little steep though.

On to my question:

I've taken over most of the galaxy map and I'm up around turn 870. Technology is pretty evenly matched between the AI's and myself. I can get in to their planets ok, but when I try to invade it just seems... broken. I've thrown as many as 25 troop ships at a population 18 planet and I just keep losing.

What am I doing wrong?! There's no indication what's happening, my troop ships just vanish and the sitrep says "A battle occured at <planet>"; so my assumption is I simply lost the battle.

Help? please?

To clarify, you are clicking the invade button on the planet, not just putting ships into a system?

Have you brought in armed ships (not troop ships) to first clear out all the enemy ships in the system?

You mention size 18 planets; what size is this? If it's population, that doesn't matter for ground invasion purposes; you need to have enough ground troops to be larger than the amount of troops on the planet (see attached image).

Sitreps that say "A battle occurred at %system%." are about space combat, not ground combat. A ground combat system should say "A ground battle occurred on %planet%." (although I'm not sure what version that message was added in). There are presently no more detailed message about the results of ground combat, though.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.



Yes indeed. I finally managed to win one when I sent a crushing 50 troopships in.



Yes



Yes, I meant the population. I wasn't even aware of the ground troops stat until you pointed it out. Thank you, that's a very great help!




I must have been misremembering or something, because I see in my sitrep it DOES say "ground battle".

Thanks again for taking the time to reply. I think the problem was that I was unaware of the "troops" stat.

Geoff: The troop stat is one of the more important stats in that set of meters. IMHO it should be one of the first ones, so it shows up when that panel is collapsed.

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