Posted by: ORCACommander
« on: January 27, 2017, 09:44:13 AM »there may be some holed up in PDC's as well, be sure to get some engineers
30 total, or 30 each?
That said, I'm not sure how much damage bombardment does when you discriminate between planetary firing and contact firing, however, if you want to make invasion a possibility, I'd suggest setting up particularly large invasion fleet, with many, many troop transports, and a slow stream of size 1 missiles to soften up the ground forces until you can actually fight them (make sure you're targetting the ground force's active sensor contact.
Assuming that troop value is equal to combat strength, I'd wager that makes the total amount of ground units on that planet anywhere between 100 and 400 troops, maybe less than 100 if they have decently high tech levels.
I wonder, do NPRs have to pay maintenance on ground troops? I'd be unfortunate if they didn't.
I am in the process off defeating 2 enemy fleets above their homeworld, everything is fine, until I saw the total value of troops on the planet... 3665 But how much is that in battalions? If they have researched ground unit strength that will give a clue, but almost 4000? I have about 13 divisions with a unit strength of of 30 but I am beginning to think I cant invade before I drop some bombs on them, and I don't want that, they have big populations and that means big taxes30 total, or 30 each?