Xeno Ground Forces stop resisting

[pendell]

So I've been playing on normal difficulty level in the Degla maps on a galaxy tablet and I notice something odd.  

My usual planetary invasion strategy involves 8 transports with 12 durability and 8 shielding+planetary invasion 2.   At the beginning of the map, the battles are extremely hard fought.  I've seen transports take 72 points of damage in a turn against a stiff xeno defense.   

But, after awhile, I eventually attack a planet with radiation zero.  

And after that,  I stop taking casualties from the xeno ground forces.  The readout shows a radiation of 20+ and a defense of 21, but after a few additional turns, the ships stop taking damage from the ground defense, at least from that Xeno, for the rest of the game.  The rest of the planets are curb-stomped in short order. 

This is usually towards the end of the campaign anyway, but I did  notice. The Xeno still launch spacecraft, and those still fight as they always did, but it's like the ground defense gave up completely. 

I assume this is a bug; but is it possible this is an intended effect? I killed a queen or something like, and when I did the xeno lose the will to fight? 

This game isn't actively being developed, but if you are thinking about investigating, I'd still recommend not fixing it. This isn't a factor until well after the campaign has been decided and the rest is simply a long march to wipe out the remaining colonies; like in a chess game after the opponent should resign but still insists on playing the board out to its inevitable, inescapable conclusion.  I'm given to understand that many better players would already have quit and moved on by that point anyway. 

Respectfully, 

Brian P. 

[fallen]

Strange report. After the defeat of the radiation 0 planet, all xeno ground forces stop resisting for the rest of the game?

[pendell]

May 18, 2020 23:07:35 GMT -5 fallen said:

Strange report. After the defeat of the radiation 0 planet, all xeno ground forces stop resisting for the rest of the game?

Correction; radiation 1 or radiation 3 defense 0.   It happens on my last enemy so I don't know if it affects all of the enemies or only one; the others are eliminated.  In my last game ( on garden map, normal) , I sustained casualties in the first attack on my next two or so planets, but no casualties for succeeding waves and after that no casualties at all for the next 14 planets during any attack. 

The other coincidence is this is at the same time I deploy my second assault task force: At this point in the game I have 16 assault transports in two groups of 8.  Each attack means I completely surround a planet and start hammering away, one TF executing refit while the other is invading, all the while an endless stream of colony ship arrives from the core worlds to exploit the newly conquered planets.  Some kind of overflow condition, maybe? 

Respectfully, 

Brian P.