Posted by: joeclark77
« on: June 25, 2013, 12:41:45 PM »
Do I understand correctly that destroying PDCs with missiles causes collateral damage to the population on the ground? And, should I conclude that spoiler "ships" that appear to be orbiting their planets with zero velocity are PDCs... or does the game somehow make it clear what is a PDC? I'm now wondering what I might have destroyed when I battled with the aliens.
I had a database problem and started a new game with lessons learned from this thread. When I attack an alien planet I want to try and do it with dropships and ground forces. Is that a good way to take out PDCs? And if so, what's the strategy for drop ships? I'm thinking you want to make a fleet of fast and small fighter-sized dropships carrying one battalion each, so that the enemy doesn't have much chance to target them and your eggs aren't all in one basket. And try to drop a whole division at once with lots of assault infantry to attack the PDCs. Is that right? Is there anything else to consider?
And if I take the PDCs that way, do I then control them? Can I steal their technology somehow?