Help, Invasion tips needed!!

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After my technicaly supirior feet has crushed the fleet of the I-League, I fail badly when trying to invade their planets. I get a +0 defense and atack bonus and my tech advantage is 1.00 while the I-League get a +10 defense and atack bonus and a tech advantage of 2.50 (:( So how is this bonuse calculated and which techs that needs to be reserched to get my army up to the standard of my fleet?

~SDC~
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
The main ability is "soldiering".


1)Antimatter weapons(after hyperspace and mega phasers)

2)Molecular medicine (after genetic mapping)

3)Morphing (after replication)

4)Nanobots (after nano-metal composition and nano-frequency electronics)

These are few of the techs that increase soldiering. Please note that these are not in any particular order.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I Reserched Nanobots that gave me +10% soldiering.
In my next invasion attempt the numbers was:
My Empire I-League
Atack +1 +10
Defense +1 +10
Tech 1.00 2.00

So I lost 3b and the I-League 1.5 not good when they have a population of 6.6b

But my big question is how can they have a +10 Atack and Defense bonus, since my +10% tech only gave me a +1 bonus and there is only 8 technologys in the techtree, that give a +10% soldiering bonus each?
Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Are you invading with 3 billion against their 6.6 billion? If you are using traditional warfare, always make sure you are invading with more troops than they have.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
No, i used the Tidal Disruptors tactic, and when a launched the first transport with 1b the planet had 150m half way there I noticed that the population had grown to 2b so i launched 2 more transports. They breed faster than cockroaches >:( In an other post http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?BID=GF&id=2945#2971 Frogboy Writes "Attacker generally will get a 3 to 1 advantage (this simulates air and space superiority)" so if the I-League diden't get the big Atack/Defense bonus 3b trops should do the job.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Are you sure you need to invade until victory?

if you invade them with destructive bonuses and manage to kill off a significant amount, say 60%, and still get thwarted, you can try and trade that planet for peace. It worked for me several times (though only on beginner's level).

Don't look too close at what it may do to your ethical score, though ;) (I didn't check this out, since I had long gone infamous)
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
The few times i invades in my gaming time (i think it were four invasoins at all) I almost beat the AI which had more man on that planet, even when they were technologically superiour. [Well i used Traditional once, all the others were using halutian rush (awailable in Halut Pack 1) ;) ]