how to conquer a planet?

[looterino]

after destroying his defense nothing happen...they continue to attack and?

[Rez Elwin]

Are you just using ships? You need to send troops in. When at your planet screen go over a couple tabs to where you have a defence army, there will be a recruit option you must get assualt troops, they come with ships that allow you to assault a planet with ground forces.

[Karl]

You need to build assault armies and send them in to land on the planet and conquer it

[Hurodrik]

I'm assuming this is your first Paradox title? You'll need to gain enough warscore to force your enemy to give you the planet, or whatever else was the reason for your war. You won't automatically gain a planet you occupy, you need to win the war.

[Elazul]

Originally posted by rezelwin:

Are you just using ships? You need to send troops in. When at your planet screen go over a couple tabs to where you have a defence army, there will be a recruit option you must get assualt troops, they come with ships that allow you to assault a planet with ground forces.

Can't you also do full orbital bombardment provided you are able?

[Rez Elwin]

You can bombard of course but that doesn't allow you to take it over, you need men(or aliens) on the ground. Bombardment just weakens the enemy defensive forces.

[DefunctDepth]

I just ran into this problem as well. I built ground troops and took the enemy empires capital planet. It still did nothing. I have to 'win' the war to get my wargoals. Interesting setup I guess.

Any suggestions on how to go about doing this effeciently?

[Caelus]

well, you need to crush their entire fleets, then take all of their planets, even if they have half the galaxy and you take half the galaxy off them.... then you win the war after taking half the galaxy, and get given only 2 of their planets! lol thats how its done XD (yup, late games wars suck like that, which is probably why most people abandon games and dont continue later on)

[Sohei]

You need lower appendage covers on the ground to occupy. You need warscore to win whatever war goal you select. Occupying can give you a large boost in warscore. You need to select planets to conquer as war goals if you want to keep them.

Originally posted by Caelus:

well, you need to crush their entire fleets, then take all of their planets, even if they have half the galaxy and you take half the galaxy off them.... then you win the war after taking half the galaxy, and get given only 2 of their planets! lol thats how its done XD (yup, late games wars suck like that, which is probably why most people abandon games and dont continue later on)

The Banks update is supposed to address this by allowing more gains in late game wars but the details have not been worked out yet.

[Caelus]

waiting for the banks update is the reason i havent played in ages lol
i was gonna start new game with new features, been waiting ages, wanna play stellaris again but they not releasing the new features fast enough XD

[Jay]

Originally posted by Sohei:

You need lower appendage covers on the ground to occupy.

Nicely worded version of "boots" for aliens. :)

But what about the snail-like aliens!? They probably don't wear boots! (At least, I've never seen a snail IRL with fitted shoes...)

[Sohei]

Originally posted by JulianB3000:

But what about the snail-like aliens!? They probably don't wear boots! (At least, I've never seen a snail IRL with fitted shoes...)

Snail aliens probably use skateboards for battle.

[March]

But... my butterflies don't cover their lower appendages. All of our appendages are lower! We'd be covering our manipulators as well.

Of course, in this case, you meant wings in the air!

On topic, I have noticed that late game I can take/liberate quite a large amount of territory. Most colonies are only worth 4 warscore - even powerful ones.

[Twelvefield]

Originally posted by Sohei:

Originally posted by JulianB3000:

But what about the snail-like aliens!? They probably don't wear boots! (At least, I've never seen a snail IRL with fitted shoes...)

Snail aliens probably use skateboards for battle.

Snails definitively use ultra-speedy curled-snake-shaped wheeled vehicles to join invasions, as in Look At That "S"- Car Go! Honestly, don't people ever go to vaudeville anymore? This is all too easy.

[LAG]

Use a fleet to defeat the enemy fleet and bomb the enemy planet until it's fortifications are 0.

then send your armies in, you can build armies from the army tab on your planets.

If you see you're loosing the fight, retreat your army and continue bombing the planet. Your army will regenerate in orbit but the defending army won't if you bomb them.

Conquering and thus occupying a planet gives warscore based on the size of the empire. Larger empires need you to conquer more planets than smaller empires.

Blockading a planet and bombing it from orbit always give a fixed 7.5 warscore, so if you're dealing with a particularly strong empire blockading might be more efficient.

Remember that you only get planets after the war, once you reach 100 warscore.
If you want to , you can negotiate if you click the war icon on the bottom right of your screen. Here you can offer a white peace, surrender or make some demands.