it's umbrage, not umbridge
'grats, you just taught something to a native speaker.
Well-island city to find out that I hid my ships there.
that's one mystery explained... and I was even planning on launching an amphib assault there...
I forget, can destroyers bombard? It seems like Il Palazzo has wiped out maniac's ability to bombard, but doesn't have any bombardment capabilities of its own.
Wasn't the groundwar going really poorly for Il Palazzo, though?
Only cruisers, dreadnoughts and meson space stations can bombard. I'm down to one cruiser... again. Dreadnoughts and meson stations both require proscribed techs to build (not merely proscribed perquisites like megatanks and blademasters) so cruisers are the only thing that anyone but fleet master Aqizzer has right now.
The ground war was going in Il Palazzo's favor but the forces in play were very small. He only landed a few troops and my garrison was at one of it's smallest sizes. He had eliminated most of my advanced troops but didn't have many troops of his own. Particularly telling was the fact that his main force had very little anti aircraft and was heavy on mechanized troops, so with cruisers and aircraft, my odds seemed pretty good.
But I also had a more then satisfactory plan B. By sacrificing cheap units, I had created a king of the hill situation with two of his transports where possession kept going back and forth every turn, keeping the transports from launching. As long as even one transport had survived, I could have brought four elite units so that I could capture those transports and keep him from taking them back. I figured that even worst case scenario I would be able to easily pull that off. Seeing as Il Palazzo doesn't have many transports to spare (four freighters, a lander and a carrier that I've spotted), It seemed like a good bet that depriving him of those two transports would have slowed down his invasion too much to dislodge my elite strikeforce before I could bring overwhelming force to bear. I had figured that if I lost a few fighters and frigates it would be no big deal if I gained a few freighters for my trouble...
(DNA rebel wtf? where did it come from? I didn't even think that ruins can have such a high-end units within).
Alien ruins. Have fun with those guys, I sure did.