Posted by: liveware
« on: June 12, 2020, 02:40:08 PM »The same way I would fight an enemy fleet -- bring a bigger fleet of my own and tank the damage while landing a million-plus troops.
If your problem is two dozen STO emplacements shooting your one-and-only troop transport while it lands a single brigade, your problem is not STO fire.
It does depend somewhat on the size of the hostile army. I was able to capture a spoiler race planet with a force of about 1.2k individual troops, organized into a couple of company-sized formations. I think they had about 400-500 individual troops defending the planet. Losses were heavy but for my first real attempt at a planetary invasion, I count it as a win. Definitely learned some hard lessons on that one.