Hello!

I have couple of questions about a Twilight Imperium. I hope you understand me - i'm not from USA, so my english is bad.

1. When I use the Secondary Ability of Diplomacy II Strategy on enemy planet that contains his Ground Forces and Space Dock, what happens with Ground Forces and Space Dock?

2. When I use shock troops to capture the Space Dock, I remove the enemy piece from the board and place my color piece or just the enemy piece stays on the board?

Thanks,

Szyszka

1.) You can't - it must be an empty planet.

2.) You remove their piece and place one of your own, meaning you must have a spare one (otherwise it's just destroyed).

Okay, thanks for help

@Edit:

Oh, and I have just one more question about annex.

The planet must be empty, but if the planet is empty and there are enemy ships in the system I can't annex this planet or I can?"

It is an empty planet in a system adjacent to a system you control, so as long as no one is on the planet, it is fine.

The only way for you to Annex the planet is if there are absolutely no units on the planet.

PDS, Space Dock, and Ground Forces all count as units.

It must be empty, only thing that can be there is the control marker flag of the opponent race.

Shock troops may capture both space docks and pds units.

If you have no spares, then you don't get to capture, they are instead destroyed.

With #1, as mentioned, the planet does have to be empty (it can be controlled by another player, though, as long as they don't have any plastic units on it). Note that if you take the planet over from an enemy, it does NOT count as war, and thus does NOT break Trade Agreements, either.

Also, it doesn't matter if there are enemy ships in the system - all that matters is that the PLANET has no units on it (Space Docks, PDS, or GF/Shock Troops).

Szyszka said:

1- I do not think diplomacy works on a planet with a grund troops on it. It has to be empty or neutral. there can be a space dock there, but no ground troops. the space dock blows up, gets removed from the game if you 'dip' it. space doc or pds are destroyed.

2: shock troops are aquired by a ground force hitting on a 0 (or 10). Shock troops hit on a 5+, where as ground troops hit on a 8+. Shock troops are the first to take damage during invasion combat. If you manage to win the invasion with a shock troop, that shock troop converts everything on that planet into yours, you replace their space dock and or pds unit with one of your color. you captured their units.

screengurl2007 said:

This is incorrect.

To be able to use diplomacy, the chosen planet must be completely free of any units.

A planet with a PDS or space dock is NOT considered empty.

There can be no ground forces, PDS, or space docks present for a planet to be considered empty.

These would all be considered a unit, basically think of it as a piece of plastic is a unit.

Also, to reiterate, there can be enemy ships present in space as the only thing that matters is the planet being empty of units.