Hi folks-
I've just tried to invade an enemy homeworld and it did not go well. Can you help me figure out what went wrong?
My species is standard human. The enemy world is this:
Colony Cost 2, Savanna, Liquid 42%, Nitrogen Oxygen (0.1), Pressure 0.437, Temp 49.3, Gravity 0.66.
The only special capability my troops need is extreme temperature, right?
My invasion force is 400,000 tons split evenly between armored brigades and infantry regiments (organized into brigades with supply, artillery, FFD, headquarters etc):
Armor regiment:
70 Heavy Tanks (Armor 36, HP 36, HAV Pen 60 Dam 60, Extreme temp)
30 IFVs (Armor 12, HP 18, Light AC Pen 12 Dam 20, Extreme temp)
Infantry regiment:
690 Heavy Infantry (Armor 12, HP 6, CAP Pen 10 Dam 10, Extreme temp)
60 Antitank infantry (Armor 12, HP 6, LAV Pen 20 Dam 30, Extreme temp)
I have a dozen fighters doing ground support and several railgun cruisers, though they seemed to do almost nothing.
Defending troops were 180,000 tons. Their tech seems to be the same or lower than me. Overall their troops are much lighter:
Medium Tank (Armor 24, HP 24, Pen 32, Dam 32)
Infantry (Armor 6, HP 6, Pen 10, Dam 8 )
I set the armor regiments to attack and the infantry to defend. I regularly achieve breakthroughs. And I get reports like this:
Heavy Infantry vs Infantry: Shots 2160 Hits 94 Armor Penetrated 94 Destroyed 94
Heavy Tank vs Heavy Infantry: Shots 35 Hits 3 Armor Penetrated 3 Destroyed 3
And when I get hit I get reports like:
Heavy Infantry: Hits taken 690 Armor Penetrated 452 Units lost 452
Heavy tank: Hits taken 68 Armor penetrated 49 Units lost 21
After a few days of fighting I am completely wiped out and they have lost perhaps 20%. What am I doing wrong? My hit numbers seem very low, could that all be accounted for by fortification? My infantry's armor doesn't seem to do very well. Any general advice?