I understand where you are coming from, that it would take a lot of time, But i am sure they can make it where the battle is won in a couple of minutes instead of 10-20 minutes. Hell they can even make it real time so it doesn't take as long.

stick to the style, id say, with the massive grafics upgrade you seem to be mustering, add in some RealTime Strategy Planetary or Fleet Battle Game Play ........brotha pleease! id never sleep.

ROFL !  ..gamers and marriages always been a strange combination!

"Honey"s gonna be playin GCIII if she wants to get any at all after release day."      its gonna have to be timed well during sleeping hours.

Wait, MULTIPLAYER!?

Where did I miss that announcement?!

See here.

I don't agree tactical land combat will add to the game for the same reasons I am against tactical fleet battles. Have explained why in other threads, but the main reason is this less focus and importance of the strategy aspects of the game.

What I'd rather like to see is more strategical decissions arround ground troops, like design and building of regiments and defence systems on the planets etc.

I hope the main focus of GalCiv3 will still be on strategy, not tactics. This is what made GalCiv so great and special in the first place, and alot deeper then most space games (and that without complicating gameplay extremely). More strategical complexity is what I want, more tactical complexity will steal from that.

Having a more hands-on approach with battles will in no way detract from the game being a strategy game.

Planetary invasions can still be much more interactive and still be strategic instead of tactical.

Instead of controlling troops or squads like some sort o' RTS, instead be able to determine which improvements, etc., that you'll invade. Dependent upon what you haven't smoked from above. Could be one, two or all.

The defending player can choose which they'd defend, etc.

Such a mechanic will allow for quick choices, thereby not slowing the game down, and provide the player with another layer of control that will immerse them even more within the game world.

hmm, make battle of Hoth ground troopers etc.

make goals that need to be conquered during planet invasion?

make a chess table, or a hex based chess table that plays fast like FE: LH fights?

Or this:

"a phase where orbital defenses (i.e. space ports) shoot at the invading troops, then a phase where the ground defences (special planetary def units) shoot at them as they are landing in assault pods, and transports, then there's the actual combat on the ground - which can be modified via commanders/generals/air marshals. This can get repeated for each wave of reinforcements (and in ccoop and MP games people join in fight at different times of combat depending on the time they went to help) there can be a interaction between the troop types in terms of targeting and relative strengths weapon types, shields, armours, as well as the influence of space control around the planet (simultaneous, coop playing) that make a ground battle much more dynamic so that it can also have multiple stages. "

I always wanted to see a strategy game like civ or galciv, with tactical battles like panzer general series.  Control points and combined arms.

What kind of ground combat would you like then?

Like I said, IGII's combat could easily be made turn-based. So no need for RTS

I would love to see some sort of turn based planetary interaction would make people kind of care more about how well they would do to battle. However such interactions should be limited due to the fact that there will be multiplayer, so keep the interactions nice and short, possible make or break the invasion efforts. Sure keep the options from GCII, but a short interaction or two could turn a slight defeat to a slight victory.