Defend Orbitals??

[overcome]

Enemy factions keep destroying my orbital enhancements. All of my Sky Hydroponics facilities were knocked out in one turn. I am guessing that the orbital defense pod is the method of defense, but am uncertain. Also, what if you have multiple improvements, do you need multiple defense pods? Also, I noticed when creating a scenario, you cannot add orbital enhancements to a base (like you can any other facility), am I missing something?

More importantly, how to you attack an enemy's orbital facilities??

[LoD]

1.ODPs are not for passive defense. They are for destroying enemy orbital enhancements (and for protection against PBs, but that's another story).
The only way you can defend against orbital attacks is to destroy enemy ODPs before they strike.

2.ODPs are independent structures. They are neither bound to other satelites, nor they are bound to specific bases. The same applies to other satelites.

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He, who comprehends the past, shall conquer the present and rule the future.

[overcome]

Great.

How do you deploy them?
Are they a one shot deal?

[RedFred]

They are a one shot deal only in that you can deploy them only once in a turn. Take out the other factions' ODPs first. You have a 50% chance of winning any orbital battle. If you win, you can use the ODP again, otherwise it gets blown up.

Funny, deploying ODPs is something that happens instinctively for me. How do you do it? Lessee... I think it is on the base operations screen. Click on orbital improvements, if you have ODPs you can then call them up. You will get a view of orbitals around Planet. Win or lose you will get a cool explosion.

On your scenario question, do you already have an Aerospace Complex? I know you can't build ODPs unless you have one of those or the Big Honkin' Elevator SP.

[Googlie]

Unfortunately, in a scenario, you can't assign orbitals - you have to have the various bases complete them thru giving you faction huge energy, playing a turn, rush building and launch them, then reset the scenario to the original date - time consuming, but necessary (and RedFred is right - make sure the bases you want to launch the orbitals from have an aerospace complex, or that that faction has the Skybase Academy)

There's also an old thread somewhere on the logistics of waging a space war

G.

[Sindai]

Redfred is mostly right about ODP's operation, only it doesn't happen on the base operations screen. It's all directed from the orbital improvements/summary screen.

[Muzta]

could they possibly defend you against an astroid?