How do I get Transport Ships?

[johnburns]

Any help or guidance appreciated.

[Azunai]

armies automatically become transport ships when they aren't sitting on a planet. you don't have to build the transports separately - just build the armies (baseline "assault army" at the beginning, other army types can be unlocked by some technologies later on)

[johnburns]

Thanks.
Just tried my first assault and failed.
What do I need to know/do to ensure a successful assault?

[Aemon Bane]

Look at thier armies health and damage for the most part you can ignore morale, compare it to yours have enough amies that your will kill theirs faster then they kill yours, there is a limit on how many armies can damage eachother at a time check the planets combat width if it takes more armies to kill theirs faster then they kill yours then the combat width allows to fight at a time then bomb the planet until they have fewer armies.

[Shgon Dunstan]

Originally posted by johnburns:

Any help or guidance appreciated.

... How do you even HAVE that question with 2.0? o_O

I mean earlier versions, sure. Took me forever to figure it out, but... Now armies launch themselves into space as soon as they are made, so... Huh?

[johnburns]

Originally posted by Shgon Dunstan:

Originally posted by johnburns:

Any help or guidance appreciated.

... How do you even HAVE that question with 2.0? o_O

I mean earlier versions, sure. Took me forever to figure it out, but... Now armies launch themselves into space as soon as they are made, so... Huh?

Well, not everyone has been playing this game a long time and there are a number of features of this game that are not obvious to a new player. So.. thanks for taking the time to comment but constructive comments (like the other replies) are more welcome. Enjoy the game.

[Lugh Ildanach]

Thanks, this thread was helpful. I am new, and all my games have been entirely peaceful so far with no wars so I wasn't sure how to stuff like move armies etc.
In my game i have a mission where I need to park a transport ship in orbit of a stone age planet and i was like, how the eff do i get transports??? haha

edit:
but my button to embark armies is greyed out, how do i enable it?