

Usually this would result in most of the enemy's troops being killed, giving you the planet back (due to popular support still being in your favour, not theirs) Against the Alliance, you had to be quick though, because they had a lot of good diplomat characters.Īgainst humans, the strategy also worked, because they would come in with Espionage missions, find the planet largely undefended (except for the 100+ squadrons of fighters I'd have defending it), so they'd come in, expect just a fight against a few fighters (and no Interdictor cruiser in any case, so they would think they could flee). Against the computer, this works because the computer usually moves its fleet about 5-20 days after taking the planet, so, if you wanted to kill the fleet, you just moved your fleet to Coruscant immediately after the invasion, and hoped to catch it (using Interdictor cruisers), and as soon as you got there, you killed the fleet, then did a Planetary Bombardment, targeting Military targets. I always found it a better idea to just keep a massive fleet at Balmorra or another planet adjacent to Coruscant in the Sesswenna Sector. With that, ain't nobody taking any planets from you unless they send a ridiculously large fleet. Each sector (once fully conquered) would have all three farm types, a large fleet (usually all concentrated on the most valuable planet, and detached as necessary to deal with incoming threats), a diplomat, an admiral, and general, and one-two espionage guys. My general expansion strategy with the Empire was to compartmentalize each sector and make it it's own self-sufficient node in space. Any planet I put more than three factories would have at least two planetary shields.Įven a tremendous fleet cannot bust through two planetary shields, so when sabotage missions start against your farm planets you can deploy a fleet and agents to repel the impending invasion. In my experience the AI is much more likely to bombard your planet to hell and take the popularity hit than to capture an isolated outer rim planet.īut yes, I would make "farms" but I wouldn't sacrifice the integrity of the planet for it.
