Slave armies?
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 11:12 am
Playing Gremak and I'm at the point when I have excess population and want to reduce the numbers of some species, particularly the Enfi (annexed the Yoral and obtained a Marauder planet with Teros, so I have plenty of 3-labor population that also make some coin and science).
Forced Labor (and upgraded with Chattel Pharmaceuticals) is nice and useful, though it needs to be used sparingly to avoid accumulation of excessive unhappiness).
Coincidentally I'm also ready to invade a neighbour or two, so I thought that those masses of Enfi could be conveniently expended as shock troops... but apparently not?
Normal populations do participate in combat, I must have missed that slaves do not?
I had an entire fleet of transports full of Enfi over a planet and only the few tanks in my capture-carriers were listed in the planet invasion window.
As a side note, I haven't gone full slavery on every alien due to the impossibility of enslaving the minors like Pell and Spicemongers. Nice balance decision but certainly annoying for a traditionalist Gremak! Good thing "my" Glitok is more pragmatic.
Enslaving everyone would make these useful critters completely and permanently angry and therefore useless. Also Pell is providing almost half of my total science output...
P.S. Not being able to "utilize" the Enfi, I guess I'll have to use the soon-to-be-conquered Humans as my expendable shock troops, I certainly don't want those pests on my future real estate!
Forced Labor (and upgraded with Chattel Pharmaceuticals) is nice and useful, though it needs to be used sparingly to avoid accumulation of excessive unhappiness).
Coincidentally I'm also ready to invade a neighbour or two, so I thought that those masses of Enfi could be conveniently expended as shock troops... but apparently not?
Normal populations do participate in combat, I must have missed that slaves do not?
I had an entire fleet of transports full of Enfi over a planet and only the few tanks in my capture-carriers were listed in the planet invasion window.
As a side note, I haven't gone full slavery on every alien due to the impossibility of enslaving the minors like Pell and Spicemongers. Nice balance decision but certainly annoying for a traditionalist Gremak! Good thing "my" Glitok is more pragmatic.
Enslaving everyone would make these useful critters completely and permanently angry and therefore useless. Also Pell is providing almost half of my total science output...
P.S. Not being able to "utilize" the Enfi, I guess I'll have to use the soon-to-be-conquered Humans as my expendable shock troops, I certainly don't want those pests on my future real estate!