Making "missile" ships

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I'm faced with a likely impossible to defeat opponent nearing the end of a tough game and I'd like to ask a brief question about making missiles. What I want to do is destroy my opponent's planets with mass drivers so that his economic/industrial/research capacities are badly damaged.

Does it matter how many troops I put on my "missile" ships or will a single one be fine?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The invasion has to be successful for the damage from mass drivers to take effect.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah, it doesn't end up devastating the industry unless you actually capture the world, in which case its a detriment to you as I'm sure you know.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
To keep you from doing exactly what you were thinking of doing.

On the other hand, you still get the attack bonuses, so you will kill off the population greater using mass drivers even if you don't win. Nice for when you're pretty confident you will lose but want to soften them up or just decimate their tax revenue.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ah nuggets. That doesn't exactly make sense considering that the invasion took place regardless of whether or not it was successful. Probably a good thing too or the AI would be capitalizing heavily on such a strategy.

In that case, mass driver the world to hell and use it as a peace offering if the battle goes poorly and a people farm in the intermediate term. Thanks guys.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ah nuggets. That doesn't exactly make sense considering that the invasion took place regardless of whether or not it was successful. Probably a good thing too or the AI would be capitalizing heavily on such a strategy.

In that case, mass driver the world to hell and use it as a peace offering if the battle goes poorly and a people farm in the intermediate term. Thanks guys.


You could just Mass-Driver the planet, win the invasion, then scrap the planet. This would probably cause the AI to use resources to build a new colony ship, send it to the planet, then build it back up. By then, you could have Mass-Drivered multiple planets. Additionally, you could keep transports close by for when the AI recolonizes the desroyed planet.

PS. If you have the ability, use a transport to move as many of your people off the invaded planet prior to scrapping it.