With 1.1 announced and all would it make the game better to have an option of Invading the planet as opposed to orbital bombardment. I think it would give the game even more options on how to take a planet. The benefits of sending troops down would be it leave some of the planets various upgrades intact thus making it cheaper to make a working economy all you have to do then is to move. A temporary boost in Culture and allegiance as word of the takeover is made known. Possible detractions could be that if you lost the battle you take a temporary morale loss and Culture rate , Troopships could be a cruiser making it a little higher on the tech tree. It's also cannot be guaranteed that the planets upgrades will remain entirely intact, there could be a temporary financial drain for a bit to represent resistance to your rule. The planet could also suffer from lower allegiance for a spell until your culture changes it.

There could also even be a new tech tree for each race! The Vasari could get upgrades ranging from gene-engineering there slave army to be more adept at fighting, receive better weapons or one that makes them fight harder or else suffer there masters wrath. The Advent could have upgrades that could allow there infantry to lower the effectiveness of the enemy army with Paralyzing Fear using there psytech or could receive other pystech upgrades that allow them to use pystech as some kinda weapon or have Preachers of the Unity that make the Advent Infantry fight more viciously. The TEC could get stuff relating to Stirring Propaganda that increases there morale if they win a battle or Censored Media that allows them to negate news of a military catastrophe ,Mass Conscription that makes there armies more numerous maybe even as an end level tech Powered Armor.

Is this a good idea on how Ground Warfare could be implemented ins Sins? If not how could it work so as to make Planetary Bombardment and Planetary Invasion even with the other? And what tech's would each race get? I already posted a few idea’s but there’s got to be a lot of great tech each side could use.