Unit, Ground Force

THE GROUND FORCE UNIT 

Units available: 24 (plus supplemental counters)

Cost: 0.5 (one resource to produce two)

Combat value: 8

Ground Unit

Occupying Force

The Ground Force unit (GF) represents a player's military and occupational forces. It is an essential unit necessary to take over neutral planets, invade enemy planets, or defend your own planets against enemy invasion. Ground Forces are governed by the following rules:

• Ground Forces cost 0.5 resources. This means that with one resource a player may build 2 Ground Forces, or 1 Fighter and one Ground Force. If, due to the production limit of a Space Dock, a player wishes to only purchase 1 Ground Force, the single unit still costs 1 resource. Each individual unit takes up 1 production capacity.

• Ground Forces, when produced, are placed on the planet of the producing Space Dock. Ground Forces are primarily transported around the galaxy by units with transporting capabilities. This includes Carriers, War Suns, and Flagships. Once Stasis Capsules is researched, it also includes Cruisers and Dreadnoughts.

• Transit Diodes allows another means of Ground Force transportation.

• A Ground Force unit is never considered to be in “space“, as it is always either on a planet or being transported inside a ship.

• The number of Ground Forces a player has is unlimited..

ARBOREC GROUND FORCES
Arborec Ground Forces are different from other races troops. They are subject to the following rules:

• They cost 1 resource each and are immune to the Biohazard and Radiation Domain Counters.

• Arborec Space Docks may not produce Ground Forces.

• Arborec Ground Forces may produce units if they did not move during the same activation.

• Each GF has a cumulative production capacity of 1. Producing 2 Fighters with 2 GF costs only 1 resource.

• If the producing GF are on a ship, any units produced may be placed on ships with capacity or a planet controlled by that player in the same system.

• The Arborec Ground Forces do not benefit from any effects or abilities affecting Space Docks. For example, the resource value of the planet that the GF are on has no effect on their production capacity. Exception: Using the primary ability of the Production Strategy Card, Arborec GF in a system containing a friendly Space Dock may produce units normally.

TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES FOR GROUND FORCES
Gen Synthesis 

Magen Defence Grid 

Dacxive Animators 

Transit Diodes

Stasis Capsules