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(As a result of this approach, civilian casualties have become almost unheard of in battles between civilized races, despite the hugely greater scale)

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Some Notes on Planetary Invasion Tactics (In the wrong order):

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As a result, land armies are speedy and efficient, but also exceptionally advanced compared to those of today.

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With enough finesse, the huge defensive grids can be penetrated, and then key installations can be destroyed to enable ships to cleanly and safety capture the planet.

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This is where land armies come in. Thousands of ultra-fast drop-ships can swarm in and drop infantry.

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ships that may try to approach.

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However, most planets are not as easy to take as a simple calculation might show. In densely populated (100 billion +) worlds, huge shield and armor grids can be raised to defend cities and colonies, and multiple turrets can deal a withering barrage to any

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When it is possible to deal enormous, world-devastating blows with a single multi-gigaton warhead, what is the use of land infantry and tanks?

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Land armies can seem, at first, to be obsolete in an advanced space-faring army.