How do I go to the other moon?

[Catratio]

I'm on like the fourth mission and chose the forest/water moon to land on. The enemy later landed on the red moon and somehow sent a ship to my moon and built a teleporter. I sent my guys over there thinking I could hijack his but they just destroyed it. I built my own teleporter but I don't know how to get to the red moon to set up a second one to move all my guys over. I don't have access to air unit factories yet and I don't see a way to get my main guy to fly over there.

[Arkay]

Originally posted by Catratio:

I'm on like the fourth mission and chose the forest/water moon to land on

We won't know specifically what system you're talking about, because the Galactic War is randomised. But that doesn't matter.

Originally posted by Catratio:

...but I don't know how to get to the red moon to set up a second one to move all my guys over. I don't have access to air unit factories yet and I don't see a way to get my main guy to fly over there.

Air units cannot travel between planets, only Orbital units.*
The Orbital Launcher (Factory) is the one on the bottom left of the build bar. Your Commander cannot build this, it needs to be a basic Vehicle/Bot/Air/Naval fab.

There are a couple of ways to get teleporters on an enemy planet.
If you only have basic Orbital tech, you will need to use the Astraeus. It works a lot like the Air transport vehicle - Select the transport unit, load a fabricator (Icons are on the right of the screen)
Then once loaded, just give the Astraeus a move and unload command on the destination planet.

If you have full Orbital Tech, you're better off just using the Orbital Fab to build teleporters.

Originally posted by Catratio:

I sent my guys over there thinking I could hijack his but they just destroyed it.

You're actually right - you can use enemy teleporters, but the way the game handles this is dumb.
If you give units a 'Use' command they will enter any teleporter, unfortunately you also need to tell those units to hold fire, because Teleporters are somewhat high on the attack priority list, and units will attack a teleporter regardless of the fact they've been told to go through it.



*The lone exception to this rule is the T2 fighter, the Pheonix, which can indeed do interplanetary travel.

[Catratio]

"The Orbital Launcher (Factory) is the one on the bottom left of the build bar. Your Commander cannot build this, it needs to be a basic Vehicle/Bot/Air/Naval fab."

I can't find it. I must not have unlocked it yet. I found a second enemy teleporter and told my guys to stop shooting and a couple made it through and instantly died but I can't figure out how to get the rest through. I click use, move, but they just wiggle around the outside of it and then blew it up again :/

[Arkay]

Originally posted by Catratio:

"The Orbital Launcher (Factory) is the one on the bottom left of the build bar. Your Commander cannot build this, it needs to be a basic Vehicle/Bot/Air/Naval fab."

I can't find it. I must not have unlocked it yet. I found a second enemy teleporter and told my guys to stop shooting and a couple made it through and instantly died but I can't figure out how to get the rest through. I click use, move, but they just wiggle around the outside of it and then blew it up again :/

You always start Galactic War with access to the Orbital Launcher and a few orbital units. The game would be impossible, otherwise.

[mikeyh]

Orbital Launcher: https://palobby.com/units/unit/orbital_launcher

Astraeus: https://palobby.com/units/unit/orbital_lander

Teleporter: https://palobby.com/units/unit/teleporter

Phoenix Interplanetary Fighter: https://palobby.com/units/unit/fighter_adv (useful for scouting other planets)

Improving the use command for teleporters is on my list. ie don't destroy what you are trying to use.

[Catratio]

Okay I figured how to unlock the orbital stuff. I didn't know I had to make a fabricator bot first to do it for me.

I still can't figure out how to use the teleporters though. I sent a guy to the red moon and he built one and even a power unit for it but I select my guys, select the teleporter, and nothing happens. Just doing basic things like walking into a unit is like pulling teeth in this game :/

[mikeyh]

Originally posted by Catratio:

Okay I figured how to unlock the orbital stuff. I didn't know I had to make a fabricator bot first to do it for me.

I still can't figure out how to use the teleporters though. I sent a guy to the red moon and he built one and even a power unit for it but I select my guys, select the teleporter, and nothing happens. Just doing basic things like walking into a unit is like pulling teeth in this game :/

You have to link the teleporters by selecting one and right clicking the other.

[Catratio]

Thanks man. That moon got totally dominated :)
This game's pretty cool I guess.