System Assault

Intro

Basic info >> see Manual#System Assault

see also #Last changes

System Assault is done in maximum five rounds (see in the screen yellow top bar)

• on the left side the attackers assets are shown (combatant ships)
• in the middle assets of the defender race are displayed

for both: use tooltips displayed at mouseover

• on the right side headlined with "Orders" (use also tooltips here especially for the bars !!!)
  • left hand defender shield strength is displayed by a vertical bar (if defender doesn't have shields/ a shield generator it is offline, of course)
  • right hand DefenderCombatStrength + DefenderPopulation is displayed by a vertical bar

then Actions (not all are everytime available):

• Attack Orbital Defenses (only if orbital defenses are there)
• Bombard planet
• Unload all ordinance on planet
• Land Troops
• Stand down

at bottom there are:

• Change orders or
• Commit

Last changes

• (Supremacy) https://bitbucket.org/mstrobel/supremacy/issue/323/system-assault (issue/323)
  • Only torpedoes would fire on the surface, including the planetary shield: this would also make the planetary shield more durable, and cruisers and above (strike cruisers and command cruisers) be more effective against them (shield, structures and population); destroyers and scouts would thus be less effective (or inneffective) against shielded systems.

• https://bitbucket.org/mstrobel/supremacy/issue/301/system-assault-shields-and-hull-of-ships (issue/301)

Strategy

Your strategy might depend on whether you have transport ships (with troops for conquering) or not

• without transporters you might kill or bring down the population (UNLOAD ORDINANCE) or/and cause a lot of damage BOMBARDMENT (MaximumDamage)
• with a small amount of transporters you better reduced defense by BOMBARDMENT (MaximumPrecision) beyond a limit your transporter have enough GroundCombatStrength
• with a lot of transporters (in the whole galaxy) you might immediately LAND TROOPS

Bombard planet

InvasionTargetingStrategy for Bombardment

• MaximumPrecision: Attempt to minimize collateral damage. Precision is favored at the expense of overall damage.
  • totalPopDamage += 0.5 * actualDamage;
  • structureHitChance *= 1;
  • I guess: more population, less structures
• Balanced: Attempt to balance precision and overall damage. Moderate levels of collateral damage are acceptable.
  • totalPopDamage += 0.25 * actualDamage;
  • structureHitChance *= 2;
• MaximumDamage: Inflict the most damage possible at the expense of precision. Collateral damage is not a concern.
  • totalPopDamage += 0.125 * actualDamage;
  • structureHitChance *= 3;

(see also https://bitbucket.org/mstrobel/supremacy/issues/94/orbital-bombardment )

Unload all ordinance on planet

• Duration: 1 Round
• totalPopDamage += 0.5 * actualDamage;

see #Strategy - with UNLOAD ORDINANCE you can reduced population very quick without causing too much damage on structures (but don't forget to eliminate first Orbital Batteries by BOMBARDMENT)

Land Troops

• available if transport ships are involved in system assault

• if the attacked System still has shields online it's not available to Land Troops

Next screen will show you your transporters - select:

• mark the transporters you want to participant (yellow point in check box) -> mention: ALL participant will be gone after a victory or a defeat
• compare "Total (Net) Combat Strength" displayed at bottom, especially the value in clamps showing positive or negative which is result of transporter's strength minus tooltip-value of ground combat strength-bar top right.

GroundCombat

• Buildings
  • PercentGroundCombat + PercentGroundDefense: Database-List

Sounds

Depending what kind of assault is done one (or more of) following sounds are played while the assault:

• vfs:///Resources/SoundFX/GroundCombat/Bombardment_SM.wav
• vfs:///Resources/SoundFX/GroundCombat/Bombardment_LG.wav

• vfs:///Resources/SoundFX/GroundCombat/CombatBio.wav
• vfs:///Resources/SoundFX/GroundCombat/CombatChemical.wav
• vfs:///Resources/SoundFX/GroundCombat/CombatLaser.wav
• vfs:///Resources/SoundFX/GroundCombat/CombatNuclear.wav

• vfs:///Resources/SoundFX/GroundCombat/CombatAll.wav

• vfs:///Resources/SoundFX/GroundCombat/dropTroops.wav

InvasionStatus

• if any orbitals are left when retreating, then the invasion is a defeat, else it's a standoff, the invader being merciful

Stalemate

if MaxRounds achieved then result of this turn is Stalemate.

Screenshot

<img size=1200></img>