Invading systems

[benzy54n]

I haven't really been playing the war game but if once in while i do invade a minor race system and take it over a turn later it willl join the I-League. I even leave ships in orbit. Do i need to rush buy morale increasing improvements or what? I only have one turn to do anything.

[Asmodean]

Yeah...the I-league event can be a real bastard. You have several options:

1) If your tech rate is considerably higher than the race you're invading, consider invading with less troops. You'll probably win anyway (but take some casualties), and there'll be a smaller population on the planet after the invasion (since the soldiers make up the population of that star system after the invasion). And less people mean higher morale.

2) Rush buy morale improvement. This is a tricky one, since there is no guarantee that the system won't defect anyway. But it IS an option.

3) Initiate a propaganda campaign on the planets in the system. On the planet screen, click details (lower left corner) and on that screen there is a slider bar to set how much you want to spend on propaganda.

Hope this helps.

Asmodean

[Nirvana_CN]

Asmodean is right, this frustrated me no end until i discovered the Propoganda slider.

*Note* its broken in the original release, you need the Bonus pack for it to work as intended.

[benzy54n]

Thanks i totally forgot about the prop. slider

[Kinjiru]

Another tactic is to put in a few cultural modules on a starbase in the system BEFORE you invade it. Three constructors will do just fine (one for the base and two cultural mods).

You may still need propaganda some, but signficantly less that without the starbase.

[BlueDEvil]

Using starbase is definitely better. No maintenance needed. They also affect adjacent sectors.