armagedon bombardment

[Kasterjojo]

I have been bombing a planet for a while its at 100% damage but nothing else seems to be happening. they eventually force peace on me. Question is: Does it just take a longer time then I imagine it should caused I bombed this planet for years? Thanks guys

[The Bored Chairman]

Armageddon bombardment used to turn the planet into a Tomb world after the last pop was killed.

With the rework to pops, there may be issues regarding it. Either way, it's better to invade so you get bonuses from purging.

[God of Time]

are you trying to take a planet or are you trying to bomb it into becoming a tomb world?

I have no idea how long it takes to bomb a planet into a tomb world or if that's even still a thing. I rarely have access to armagedon bombardment with the empire types i play.

If you're trying to capture the planet, you need to land armies on it to occupy it. You can train those at your own planets.

[Kasterjojo]

Tomb World.. I will have to look into it further

[FIBBIDEH]

If you have the option to use Armageddon bombardment, that means you're genocidal.

A good tip is to know what that devastation percentage means.

0% - 24% defensive armies take half damage, and NO pops can be killed

25% - 49% defensive armies take full damage, pops can now be killed

50% - 74% planetary based FTL inhibitors are now disabled

75% - 100% planetary armies take double damage

Once you hit 100% devastation it becomes a waiting game to watch their pops count down to zero.

I can't give you exact numbers on the chance to kill pops, but I can tell you that the orbital bombardment is NOT effected by your fleet power, but it is by your fleet CAP. 10 fleet cap is minimum, 100 fleet cap is maximum power, anything above this is overkill.

I've tested this to a degree, it seems that the fastest way to depopulate a planet is the extermination purge type, then (Armageddon) bombarding, then processing, then labor, then displacement, and finally neutering being the slowest. Cracking a planet is obviously the fastest, and provides zero refugees to the filthy xeno loving neighbors, unlike any other population purge type or bombardment stance.

The difference is that you can get resources out of processing/labor. So my personal strategy is to only bombard small planets of a different climate, or as a "salt the earth" (almost literally) strategy to deny any repossession of territory (paired with destroying all resource extractors in the system ensures near complete reconstruction of territory). I leave the higher populated worlds out of bombarding for this most part because a planet of 50 pops turns into AT LEAST 150 minerals and food a month.