Wow, I'm very annoyed right now.
In my continuing fight against the Kingdom of Mountain, I decided to make a final push on their home world. My Apocalypse Mk IIs, armed with Mk II missiles, proved to be more than a match for everything in the system, and we took up place over their world, leaving the large shipyard complex alone, since it would be a valuable prize.
A transport group dropped off three assault infantry battalions, who, over a couple of weeks, managed to take out the defending infantry.
And then I hit a wall - apparently I needed 220+ points of defensive garrison strength to force their home world to surrender, which was more than existed in my entire empire at that time. So I set to work on building more, while my fleet continued to wait in orbit.
Except that they refused to admit defeat. About once a month, a meson-armed FAC would spit out of their yards. Each would only last about 15 seconds before the laser turrets on my ships would vaporize them, but that was long enough for them to get a single volley off on my ground units, causing all kinds of damage.
Still, work continued apace, and it looked like we'd have the forces needed to take the world in roughly a year.
Except that they just built a PDC, armed with something like 50 mesons, which immediately opened up on my fleet, blowing them to bits before they could respond.
I'm now torn between wanting that world even more, or if I want to just glass everything.