Military Actions

Settlements can perform and be the target of military actions. These represent hostile forces to the Empire trying to destabilize and disrupt Imperial operations, steal valuable resources, and usurp your control over settlements. Some actions are resolved automatically by Imperial forces, others allow the player to manually deploy pawns to deal with the situation themselves.

Settlement Defense
Settlements occasionally receive attacks from periodic incidents generated by the mod. These attacks are defended against by using the attacked settlement's own military, a reinforcing military from another settlement, or a combination of both.

Manual Defense
There is a known bug in manual defense currently that may cause it to crash the game when generating a new map for the encounter.

Auto Resolve
Settlements and reinforcing armies assigned to them can defend themselves regardless of whether or not a military squad is assigned from the Military Menu. Every time a settlement defends using Auto Defense it will use its military strength against the attacker's military strength to fight through a series of simulated rounds of combat. Each round, one military force will lose a point of military strength. The simulated battle will continue round after round, until one side runs out of points of military strength and loses.

Squad Deployment
You can deploy assigned squads from the Military Menu if they are available-- however, doing so makes them unable to defend a settlement that is under attack. Squads can be deployed to any map via edge-walk-in or drop-pod (if Transport Pods has been researched) by selecting a point on the map. Once the deployed squad reaches this point they will continue to defend it until another command is given.

Squad Commands:

 * Move The squad will move to a new point on the map and defend it.
 * Attack The squad will hunt down any hostile forces on the map using the quickest route possible.
 * Leave The squad will attempt to collect their wounded and leave the map.
 * Leave (Debug) The squad will instantly teleport off the map.



Attack Enemy Base
Squads that are available can be sent on an offensive mission to attack enemy settlements on the world map. This is done by clicking on an enemy settlement from the map and selecting one of the two options that appear to Capture or Raid the settlement.

Raid Settlement
A squad will attempt to plunder resources, and potentially prisoners, from this enemy settlement after wiping out their defenses.

Capture Settlement
A squad will attempt to completely destroy this base and replace it with a new Settlement that the Empire controls.