Posted by: Father Tim
« on: October 15, 2011, 01:16:00 PM »Training rating is handled differently from combat bonus.
Shouldn't it be +51.8%? 1 x 1.2 x 1.15 x 1.1?
The main reason to form Brigades/Division is that the commanders boni stack. With a Division commander with combat bonus 20%, commanding a brigade commander with a combat bonus of 15%, commanding a battalion commander with a combat bonus of 10%, the battalion fights with a combined bonus of 45%.
Speaking of which, I had slightly unusual incident. I had a basing dropship with a troop bay and combat drop, nothing fancy. I put 5 of them in a fleet, and ordered it to go to an enemy planet, load troops, and deploy troops. Each 5 performed separately, and since they had no cargo handling it took them like a whole day to load each troop. That took like 5 days total, apparently they do NOT multi-load troops, so by the time I managed to drop troops, the first ones were lower morale.Unfortunately yes. The way around it is to split the fleet into the individual ships in seperate task forces in which case they will all take the 1 day and be done. This is a pain to micromanage however so good luck on it.
Is this normal?
... Combat drops deploy instantly, but if you're sieging a world with no PDC or you're moving to your own colony, then you can just unload over time without the combat drop ...