New ground combat

[space dwarf]

I still havent figured it all out but it's very neat.

And the ability to take the option of "I dont want to deal with you alien slime, I'm going to nuke you off the face of the planet" was always an intended design choice for the new ground combat system... it just means filling the atmosphere with radioactive dust and destroying all those useful installations you would have kept if you invaded.

[FourXer]

Organize the Army is fun for me.  i love the new design.  :-)

But how do i initiate a ground combat? i have a multi player start, with some NRP on my planet.  I set them all on hostile. . . what now? I guess the STO Targeting Tab is for Ground Combat? but it reamins empty. . .

[DFNewb]

Organize the Army is fun for me.  i love the new design.  :-)

But how do i initiate a ground combat? i have a multi player start, with some NRP on my planet.  I set them all on hostile. . . what now? I guess the STO Targeting Tab is for Ground Combat? but it reamins empty. . .

I think fighting is supposed to happen every construction phase by itself.

[FourXer]

Yes it is.

Some pops are conquered, others are not, although they are all on hostile.  Still have to figure out why

[Coleslaw]

STO Targeting is for Surface-To-Orbit weapon targeting, as far as I know. To actually attack with your units, you go into the Ground Forces window, find the unit(s) that are on the same body as the enemy colonies you want to fight, click the unit or its HQ, click the button at the bottom that says Field Position, and set them to Front Line Attack. You generally want to leave the HQ unit out of the frontline so it doesn't get destroyed, so selecting the command unit that has your main combat line forces, clicking Field Position, Front Line Attack, and enabling "Set Field Position ONLY for subordinate formations" may be preferential.