System Assault

Intro

Basic info >> see Manual#System Assault

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

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;

Unload all ordinance on planet

• totalPopDamage += 0.5 * actualDamage;

Land Troops

• available if transport ships are involved in system assault

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