Re: Troop Capacity

You wrote: 

>> Usually, you sit outside their max range with your carriers, and
>> send them in like you would an airstrike on an enemy fleet.	

>In the space invasion version. You look up, and other than a few 
>clouds, there is not much between you and the airstrike. Perhaps ECM, 
>and stealth are good enough to make it worthwhile.

Umm. . . do remember that weapons have a max range, and you can situate 
your carriers so they can't be shot down. . . 

>Then you have to climb back out of the gravity well, being shot at by 
>the planetary defenses again (unless you were very successful). But 

Either you were sucessful, or you're dead already.  

>Not targeted by the SML's themselves, but by the associated 
>batteries of longer than battlefield range point defense weapons 
>mounted with/near them. SML's to fire at starships, beam weapons for 
>anything else. Unless those nasty beam weapons don't work properly in 
>atmosphere, which would help us out a lot  here.

Come on, if you're using PDSes from Full Thrust (naval AAA based near 
naval main weaponry seems to be a reasonable basis for any Orbital 
Defense installation) they miss half the time.	And you can target them 
seperately, unlike the the ship's AAA.	Bang, you're dead.  

John