JediIgor

Research the Planetary Invasion tech tree, your troops become more powerful and you should be able to get up to a 4 advantage, meaning races without good Planetary Defense tech will roll over quickly. Using mini-soldiers helps too.

I would like to build troops explicitly instead of just taking 1 billion of your population type. Better troops can just count as a large # of civilian equivalent. i.e. 1 elite soldier could be worth 10 civilians. Eventually, soldiers could have their own attack/defence/level ratings.

Let me join Eville in saying that I would also like to know the answers to these questions!