and again transports have a '5' defense rating ?  but they are described as:

'Transports are completely defenceless, and must be protected by air units.'

For the defense rating: Armor

It is kinda funny they have no way to defend themselves but they are advanced enough to fly for weeks through space while keeping up to 100 soldiers alive during the weeks long flights. It makes sense I guess if they were only intended to drop soldiers off at friendly non-hostile planets. In that case there should be two types of transports. One like a civilian transport (like jet airliners) and military transports (like B52 and C5 Galaxy)

Guess we shouldn't rationalize... Wouldn't want to think about how every planet in the system can not only support life but each planet has a standing base population...  Or what kind of energy source all these buildings and units use to power them without ever needing to recharge...

what it seems to me it that the rating are used to determine kills.

ie Figs attack at 10, fighters defend at 10 so one fig kills one fig;
                             next, bombers defend at 2 so one fig can kill 5 bombers;
                             lastly, transports defend at 5 so one fig can kill 2 trannies.
                             

so in effect  the defending air can be "out numbered", and you can land a lot of trannies.
however that strat is very expensive in terms of lost trannies and lost bombers since there
is a kill limit on the figs.

Bombers and trans DO NOT FIRE at figs!! But figs fire at bombers/figs/trans also figs can only be killed by other figs so lasers/bombers/trans/droids/soldiers will not affect your opponents figs in any way apart from bombers and trans will act as flak so there figs fire at 3 lots of units not just one, obvioulsy u don't use bombers and trans in the way as flak but this is what happens, bombers and trans defence stats are just how strong they are at defending against figs a bit like armour rating if u like to put it that way

Also 1 fig will not kill one fig and die itself, that is nit how it works but its close anuff if u take out all attack bonuses etc so u could look at it like that if u like it won't affect your attacks too much, Also u won't want to attack 100k figs with 100k figs as it will not be pretty

> Captain Apollo wrote:

> whats interesting is you can send just soldiers to an unportalled planet.

they swim through space?

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