So while playing Nexerelin, I was wondering what was the point of Nexerelin new ground battle mechanics and... was pleasantly surprised when I actually fought a real enemy.
In vanilla the steps are:
1. Attack station, sometimes a boring fight there.
2. Raid
3. Flee.
On Nexerelin this happened instead:
1. attack station
2. invade
3. while waiting my turn, get attacked
4. get attacked again
5. realize I ran out of CR, fly away from planet.
6. my troops need my help, so as soon some of my ships had CR I fight my way back.
7. reach planet, help troops, get attacked.
8. no ships ready for combat, flee again.
9. see enemy sent a huge swarm of fleets to prevent invasion, start to kite thjem all over the place.
10. marines on planet need help again.
11. stall until I have all ships with CR.
12. fight a crazy sequence of battles to get back to planet.
13. planet finally mine, dock and insta-repair.
14. more fleets arrive, some have their own marines, so I have to fight them off to prevent them from landing.
That was way more fun than I expected.
