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Colony nations have their own [[Armies|armies]] and fight [[Terrestrial Warfare|ground wars]] on their worlds. With troop transport ships, armies can also travel between worlds.

== Raising armies ==
Colony nations raise armies with the normal ''Build Army'' priority (60 {{icon|ip}} in the standard game). The armies are named ''1st … 8th <province> Colonial Guard''.

'''Army limit''' = the smaller of
* the number of provinces that are not fully occupied, and
* 1 + one army per 50,000 residents,
minus the armies that are currently aboard a transport. A nation without a military has no armies.

== Movement ==
* Colonial armies move, fight, occupy and annex across the borders of their world, including marches all the way around it. Travel times use the real distance on that world.
* '''Earth armies never leave Earth.'''
* Colonial armies may stand on Earth, on their home world and on any colony world a transport brings them to. Other moves between worlds (for example "go home") are refused.
* Grey [[TI Space Nations/Colony Nations#Unclaimed territory|unclaimed land]] can be crossed by every army.

== Troop transport ==
=== Ship modules ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Module !! Research !! Crew !! Mass !! Rules
|-
| '''Troop Transport Bay''' || Troop Transport Bay project (6,000 {{icon|research}}, after City Core and Marine Assault Unit) || 90 || 3,000 t || [[Utility Module List|Utility module]], one per ship, only on hulls of '''cruiser length or larger'''. Can be fitted next to batteries.
|-
| '''Drop Pods''' || Drop Pods project (8,000 {{icon|research}}, after Troop Transport Bay) || 30 || 1,500 t || Utility module, one per ship, cruiser or larger. Needed to land on enemy ground.
|}

=== Embark Army ===
'''Embark Army''' is a fleet operation:
* The fleet needs '''3 ships with a working Troop Transport Bay''', must be in an '''interface orbit''' of the world, not transferring, not in combat, not docked, and not already carrying an army.
* It takes the strongest eligible colonial army of yours in the region below.
* Takes '''5 days''' and costs '''150 {{icon|boost}} boost and 100 {{icon|ops}} operations''', paid when you confirm. A battle cancels it (the cost is not refunded).

=== Disembark Army ===
'''Disembark Army''' lands the army in a region below the fleet: on Earth, on the army's home world or on any colony world.
* Takes '''3 days''' and costs nothing.
* Your own and allied regions are always open.
* '''Enemy regions''' need working '''Drop Pods on all 3''' transport ships, and are closed if the region has [[Space Defenses|space defenses]].

=== The journey ===
The trip is an ordinary fleet transfer - the transport can be intercepted.
* The army is '''lost''' if the fleet drops below 3 bay ships (destroyed, scuttled, split off or captured), if the fleet is disbanded, or if the army's nation disappears. Notification: ''<army> is lost'' - ''<fleet> can no longer carry the army.''
* Damaged bays keep the army aboard but block landing until they are repaired.
* Merging a whole loaded fleet into an empty fleet takes the army along. If two loaded fleets are merged, the second army is lost.
* An army aboard a transport still counts against its nation's army limit.
* The fleet does not show that it carries an army - keep track yourself.

=== Upkeep away from home ===
A colonial army on another world, or aboard a transport, costs its nation '''2 {{icon|ip}} per month''' (instead of the vanilla 1 away from home or 0.5 at home). The nation's IP tooltip lists these armies, landed and aboard, on a line of their own: ''Colonial armies away from their home world (landed elsewhere or aboard transports) are reducing this nation's Investment Points by 2 per army…''

== Conquest ==
A nation at war that takes the '''capital province of a city''' captures the city's hab for its executive faction (like a vanilla hab capture: some modules are lost, a research share and one project can be stolen). Peaceful transfers - settlement, unification, peace deals - only move the land, never the hab.

== Surface-to-orbit fighters ==
Colony nations can build STO fighter squadrons with the normal ''Build STO Squadron'' priority (50 {{icon|ip}} in the standard game; no launch boost needed).
* Slots per province: city crew ÷ 2,500, between 1 and 8 (4 for a city with 10,000 crew). Provinces without a city have none.
* Needs a military, the STO unlock and the setting ''Colony STO fighters''.
* Colony fighters only fight in the interface orbits of their own world and never join battles at Earth; Earth fighters never join battles at colony worlds.
* Only the executive faction of a colony nation or union on that world brings its colony fighters into a battle. Before the battle, the text under ''Add Exofighters'' names the world: ''Spend <boost> to launch surface-to-orbit fighters from the nations of Mars you control to this combat.''
* A colony squadron is named after the nation's capital province (for example ''Arcadia Planitia Squadron''); Earth nations keep the vanilla random region names.
* Automatic hab defense with STO fighters stays Earth-only. Outside a battle on its world, the nation panel shows 0 available fighters.

== Space defenses ==
[[Space Defenses]] work as in vanilla; the cost is scaled by the province's area (0.5 × to 2 × Earth's median region). Regions with space defenses cannot be landed on - neither by the aliens nor by a drop-pod assault.

== See also ==
* [[Armies]] and [[Terrestrial Warfare]] - vanilla ground combat
* [[TI Space Nations/AI#AI troop lifts|AI troop lifts]] - how the AI uses transports
* [[Fleets]] - fleet operations

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