Marine Barracks

[BrowneHawk]

Im at the point where i need to start building defenses. It is easy to figure out marine barracks are useful in space on a station, but I noticed they can be built on planets as well. Do my mars bases need barracks also or just layered defense?

Do these marines also offer other bonuses, or simply just a a force to stop other marines?

[ulzgoroth]

Marines on ground bases and space bases serve the exact same purpose AFAIK. I'm confused as to why you're regarding them as different questions?

If anything ground bases might be more vulnerable, since I think you may be able to do a marine assault without fighting their defenses.

Marines are useful in some events, and offer some resistance against enemy councilors performing control station. You can also use your marines to assault enemy habs using a councilor with the assault space asset mission. (Though you probably don't want to send a councilor out to Mars to do that.)

[thomashenders]

low earth orbit they are worth it in the mid game, but I haven't see any use for them elsewhere. The Aliens don't land when they attack. I don't know enough about the late game though.

[Soylent_Greene]

If you have them on your ships you are supposed to be able to take over enemy ships

I haven't heard of anyone successfully attacking an enemy alien ship via boarding yet.

[ulzgoroth]

Originally posted by Soylent_Greene:

If you have them on your ships you are supposed to be able to take over enemy ships

I haven't heard of anyone successfully attacking an enemy alien ship via boarding yet.

Uh, I don't think you can attack ships via boarding. Marines on ships are for attacking habs. (And they do that quite well. Unlike station-based marines, ship-based marines don't require council leadership.)

[winnie]

Can marines capture enemy hub, or only destroy it?

[kalonjelen]

Marines can capture enemy habs or outposts if they are human enemies. They can only destroy alien habs or outposts. Typically they'll blow up a fair amount of modules on the hab when they invade too.