Boarding

[papent]

Using boarding shuttles is how I normally takedown orbital bases. Send a few waves of long range and slow AMM or normal ASM to cover the shuttles and wait until the boarding teams take over the bases.

[Father Tim]

Do units in boarding combat use ground supply points? if yes, is it at the same rate per rounds of regular ground combat?

They do -- or rather, they are supposed to.

And they're supposed to do so at the the same 'rate' per combat round. . . remembering that a combat round is 8 hours on a colony and only 30 seconds in a boarding action.

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But as many people have noted, it looks like boarding combat is bugged and not consuming any supplies at the moment. . . or possibly consuming them at 'one round per eight hours' rates, since nobody has yet managed to get a boarding combat last that long.

[Droll]

You would probably need to do a test involving massive ships and relatively small marine complements.

Or even a boarding action against a troop transport carrying a battalion for example.

Those are some examples I thought of where boarding might last longer.

[xenoscepter]

Space Stations, they are all engineless. If you have some decent Laser and Railgun STOs, you can defend them from enemy ships quite readily, but boarders... anything designed to board an actual enemy vessel will be fast and may very well get close enough to deploy and get out.

Versing a speed of 1 km/s... even regular old infantry would probably take 0% casualties... never mind your Fuel Harvesting Bases, Terraforming Stations, Orbital Mining Platforms and other such things which are not nearly as likely to be well defended falling prey to a slow, quiet, maybe even cloaked boarding transport...

Boarding combat is very useful, very useful indeed... Oh, and it's also really cool!