Question, if I station my marine on planet before hive fleet invade , will that prevent that system from being devore? Like what the untramarine did.
The problem is, enemies attack the PDF and Guard troopers before your forces. So you can station troops with no ships, and the Tyranids will chew through the PDF and Guard populations, and the infestation will probably increase in size as it does so. So you need troops on a ship doing raid attacks, so you can hit the infestation with your Space Marines while the PDF holds them at bay. It sucks that your forces can't join the PDF forces. You'd get tons more firepower and more guys to soak wounds. But I'm guessing if the regular forces fought in the normal battles at their numbers, they'd slaughter any amount of enemies.
So it turns out that a) Psykers get deployed during raids even though the screen doesn't say so, and for some reason, they die horribly early in combat to things like Rokkits. Not sure wth is going on, never had this problem before, but about half the Librarians and such I sent out with my crusade fleets are in critical condition now. Good to know I can take them back to the Fortress Monastery and they'll heal. I'm guessing it has to do with the # of Apothercaries available to treat the wounded. 1 Apothercary treating ~10 Marines probably makes his healing time take forever. 10 Apothecaries standing around treating 5 guys is probably a lot quicker. Maybe they intended you to send more than just 1 Apothecary per company. I look and you have 10 spare ones ready to be promoted into new companies. 1 Apothecary may be enough to recover 100% gene seed from
casualties, but clearly it's not enough to keep a Company in fighting shape.