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New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: Kytuzian on June 14, 2016, 09:32:09 PM

Title: How does Orbital Bombardment work?
Post by: Kytuzian on June 14, 2016, 09:32:09 PM

I know that you can shoot missiles (or beam weapons if the atmosphere is less than 1 atm, or mesons at any planet) at planets and make them surrender. I'm looking for the formulas/exact information about how much bombardment it takes to make a planet surrender.

Title: Re: How does Orbital Bombardment work?
Post by: Sheb on June 15, 2016, 03:18:32 AM

You can't shoot beam weapons at population, so it has to be nukes if you want to force their surrender that way.

Title: Re: How does Orbital Bombardment work?
Post by: AL on June 15, 2016, 06:09:34 AM

I've gotten population surrenders from shooting lasers before. I think technically I shot at the ground forces contact and the overkill amount of lasers I had caused the population to surrender too, but still...

Title: Re: How does Orbital Bombardment work?
Post by: Sheb on June 15, 2016, 06:27:31 AM

Really? I don't think you can target ground units with lasers either (you can target PDC though methink). I need to test this.

Title: Re: How does Orbital Bombardment work?
Post by: AL on June 15, 2016, 07:06:14 AM

I've done it in my recent game in 7.10 so it is definitely a thing.

Title: Re: How does Orbital Bombardment work?
Post by: Sheb on June 15, 2016, 07:59:09 AM

Ooooh, that's good to know. Does it work with other beam weapons?

Title: Re: How does Orbital Bombardment work?
Post by: AL on June 15, 2016, 08:23:08 AM

I think yes to particle beams and railguns, no to mesons and microwaves (for obvious reasons). I believe I tested both others at some distant time in the past but not in the current version (probably 6.3 or so).