How do land units work? » Forum Post by hardcore

in GC3 (also in the previuos game of the series, GC2) population and troops are basically the same thing. you put your citizens in thos troop ships, land them on alien planets and if your dudes win, they are the new population of your newly conquered planet (some of the original inhabitatns usually survive, too)

it can be a good idea to have some troop transports in preparation and collect some people from planets that reach their current maximum population limit.

also, since they are quite valuable, i like to put lots of engines and also some sensors on the transports, so they can hover in some safe zone whilt the fleet clears the orbit and then charge in from 15 tiles away in a single turn.

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in GC3 (also in the previuos game of the series, GC2) population and troops are basically the same thing. you put your citizens in thos troop ships, land them on alien planets and if your dudes win, they are the new population of your newly conquered planet (some of the original inhabitatns usually survive, too)

it can be a good idea to have some troop transports in preparation and collect some people from planets that reach their current maximum population limit.

also, since they are quite valuable, i like to put lots of engines and also some sensors on the transports, so they can hover in some safe zone whilt the fleet clears the orbit and then charge in from 15 tiles away in a single turn.

That's nice but I was basically asking if removing population from a planet causes the planet to regrow it's population while the troops are in space or if the troops are somehow still linked to that planet even when in space.

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So as far as I understand you need to spent your own population to build ground troops. If true than that means ground troops are insanely valuable and that losing them is the same as basically losing portions of your empire.

They are very valuable, keep them protected!

However, I still have some questions about how land units work. For example, if I build a transport and convert 1 population into a army unit, then will the planet just replace that population unit with time by making the population grow again?

Yup. Population constantly replenishes up to the food capacity (unless you're a Synthetic life-form, then you have to build pop).

You may have a shipyard served by 3 or more planets, which means a transport module would take 1 billion from each planet. If you have decent population growth (can be improved by building hospitals, researching some techs, etc.) that will replenish itself in no time.

If so does that mean that it pays to have land units ready in advance so that once a war happens you won't suddenly have to deplete all your colonies of population?

It can do - but that means you have to protect them from pirates and other hazards too!

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