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JP - Ground Combat

Replaces ground combat and armies with a simple siege system. Shortly after a planet's fortifications are reduced to 0 the planet will capitulate. There can also be a Siegebreak event to help speed up the bombardment. These are seperated by your nation's ethics or a generic set.

Armies and the bonuses affecting them are replaced with bonuses to planet fortifications and ships to enhance the emphasis on naval combat, and unrest reduction to replace that part of the army's function.

Manpower is also abstracted out into country modifiers that help or hurt your country depending on how much you have in the reserves. It can be spent during Siegebreaks or to avoid the effects of rebels or other event-related invasions like with the angered titanic life.

Planetary fortifications and amount of extra fortification per pop have been increased to keep the planet capturing process take about the same amount of time as the bombard -> invasion does in the base game, though Siegebreaks can speed this up if you're willing to take risks or pay for costly operations.

CHANGELOG:
29/12: Updated for 1.9.1.
16/5: Updated for 1.6.1.
13/5: Added Hive Mind Siegebreak events.
9/5: Updated to 1.6. Added Siegebreak events for remaining Ethos except Hive Mind.
4/5: Added more manpower events. Added militarist/pacifist Siegebreak events. Bugfixes regarding invading primitives and effects of synth defense matrix spaceport module.
30/4: Added manpower and xenophile/-phobe & generic Siegebreak events. Fixed planets being auto-capped by events.
23/4: First release.