Need help... Warfare

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Hi everyone,

I posted this in the GalCiv II Game talk forums because i couldn't find a forum titled "Help" or anything. Sorry if it's the wrong forum

Okay, i have serveral questions for you guys. First, i have an enemy contstructor headed into my solar system (Our diplomatic relations are "Wary"). I've got a defender that i want to attack the ship - how can i do that? I select my Defender, and right-click on the ship and it doesn't "Attack" or anything. I'm a bit new to warfare . Second, how do i get other classes of ships to become available? Like, a heavy warfare ship? Do i need to research more warfare technologies? And third, i believe that all other planets in my current battle are enhabited by other races. What would be the most effective way to take some of them over - by researching "Planetary Invastion"? Oh, and one more thing. is there any way of telling if certain foreighn planets are inhabitable? (Besides clicking on their sun, you can't always tell which planets belong to which sun).
P.S. I noticed some Alien races had shield icons on their planet, how can i implement shield defenses on my planet?
- Many thanks for your help, i'm enjoying the game!
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Let's see...

1. In order to attack, your ship/fleet needs to have enough movement points to move into the square that holds the defending ship/fleet. And have at least an attack value of 1 (weaponless ships can't attack). At that point, since you're not at war, you should get a dialog box saying "If you do this, this will mean war with
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Okay

1) Well, i have a weapon on my little defender, but maybe i just right-clicked in the wrong place (I didn't get the dialog box to declare ware with whoever).

2) Yes, i'm unfortunatley using the default ships. I actually didn't know there was a ship-building feature in the game. I'm sad now, i progressed pretty far in my battle . What other defualt ships will become available for me? (I already have the Constructor, Colony Ship, Defender and Scout.

3) Cool, i'll have fun with that

4) Do i have to send a Colony Ship to tell if they are inhabitable? Or can any ship tell?

5) Alright, got it.

- Thanks for your help!
Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
well...
2. to get more ships you need to keep researching weapons and defenses. and also larger hulls, like medium ship building and then large and then huge. once you research the next hull size you can use them in the shipyard even if no new default ships appear

4. any ship can tell if a planet is habitable, but obviously only the colony ship can colonize it.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Alright, well as far as habitable planets go, does the ship need to travel all the way to it? And, when it does, where exactly does it tell you wether the planet can support life? (Sorry, i might of missed it somewhere, still getting used to the interface).

-Thanks for your help!
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Class 0 planets cannot support life. Anything above Class 0 can be colonized, the higher the number the better it is. You need to build/buy a transport ship, physically move it adjacent to an empty/enemy planet, then click on it to invade.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
no, you don't really have to go all the way to it. every ship has a sensor range, you just need to get a ship close enough to it to tell. goto shipyard, and design a cargo ship with some speed, enough range, then fill it up with sensors. You will be able to see very far with it. also use this ship at critical locations, so you can see who is coming or going. when you click on the planet, the class of it will shown. class 0 is unhabitalbe, everything is habitable, the higher the better.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Cool, thanks! I just figured out how to use the shipyard. I love it! I made a ship with one Impulse Mk II engine, and two missle launchers - it absolutley owns the AI! But, i have yet another question. I wanted to see all of the default ships i could build - and i researched very far into the Weapons, Ship Defense, and i just got done researching "Superior Hulls" and i still cannot get any different warfare ships besides the Defender, and the Star Fury. Why is that? Shouldn't i be able to at least build a heavy fighter of some sort?

-Thanks!
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
"and i researched very far into the Weapons, Ship Defense, and i just got done researching "Superior Hulls" and i still cannot get any different warfare ships besides the Defender, and the Star Fury. Why is that? Shouldn't i be able to at least build a heavy fighter of some sort?"

You should probably pic up minutarization, sensors and drives. The default ships are crap and I don't knwo what exact cambos you need to unlock any of them :/

BTW Heavy fighter is an AI designed hsip, you don't get it. It's just a class the AI uses and he will mod it up if he has better weapons available.

Have fun explorign the game, it's a blast.