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Malevolence -> RE: Planetary Surrender (4/12/2010 2:17:20 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Krelos
Indeed, I have not yet been able to get any ship of mine to bombard any planet, regardless of the bombardment weapons they have.
Yes, it is a GREAT PAIN. But when you are an evil despot, you don't let such things stand in your way.
(1) Make a ship strictly for bombardment. Because I bomb early and often, I use Nuclear Devastators most of the time. Don't put lasers and torps, etc. on it. If you do, and you right-click on the planet they will want to blockade instead of bombard.
(this is one of many "issues" with the default order routine the command interface uses. I would prefer to pick the command I want, but that is another thread.)
(2) Put all your bombardment ships in a fleet all their own. No one else.
(3) Use another fleet to clear the aerospace above your target. Everything must be gone in terms of bases.
(4) Select a bunch of ships from your bombardment fleet using the shift-select or drag-box (where it says "(multiple ships)" in the summary window). Don't use the fleet-select to grab your whole fleet. Keep it to around 5 or 6 ships. Why? I don't know. For some reason, my fleet of ten ships refuses to bombard the planet, unless I do it this way.
(5) Right-click on the planet. You will get the option to bombard.
(6) Put on your evil grin and watch their world die in a fury of nuclear fire.
rinse and repeat...
Some notes... any race that makes up the population of that world you killed will immediately hate you. So even if it's a world owned by the Dhayut empire, if there are Securan's on that world, the Securan empire is going to declare war on you. If your own race is there, expect a good portion of your empire to likely revolt (depending on your race/government types). You can't be a good guy and bombard. White hat people need not apply.
However, if you have the stones for it, planned, simultaneous bombardment strikes across an enemy empire will wreck their economy.
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