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I just bought the game, i am figuring most of the commands but theres something annoying with the planetary invasion. How do you manage a large scale invasion ? i grouped my transport troops, in one fleet but it seems i have to find, right click and select each of them one by one to load troop and they only do it at the nearest colony , not especially the best place to recruit from so that means asking them to travel again one by one to different colony to load up. Am i missing something ? how do you invade planets of a huge empire without microing everything ?

If all the troops you want to load are a a single planet, you can select your troop carrier or fleet, then go to (without selecting) that single planet and hover the cursor over the planet. You should get a arrow and troop symbol. Right-click and the order is given to load to capacity all troop carriers.

If its a mixed fleet, you may get a patrol symbol instead. The good news is with patch 1.04, you can ctrl-right-click to get a list of orders. Select Load Troops, and your good to go.

Same for invading in reverse, select troop ships, go to the planet without selecting, and unload by right clicking (it may say attack if this is an invasion).

Edited for spelling.

I tried this, its not working, hovering the cursor over the planet i only get the patrol menu , using 1.04 and ctrl right click doest not offer me the load troop option either, that with a transport only fleet.

I find I have to select each ship, even though all the ships in the fleet are troop carriers. That is the only way I know of doing it, one by one.

You have to load the transports individually at present, unless you have them Automated, in which case they will load themselves. We are planning to add a group/fleet-based command for loading troops.

will the fleet based troop loading command be present in the 1.04 patch? oh boy i sure hope it would.

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

You have to load the transports individually at present, unless you have them Automated, in which case they will load themselves. We are planning to add a group/fleet-based command for loading troops.

I never actually noticed this. My invasions have come from troop transports independent of any fleet. And I generally only move one troop with a destroyer in a fleet to new colonies (I let the colony build there own troops after the first that I land).