Raiding

Orbital bombardment stance

Abducts pops

Raiding is an orbital bombardment stance in Stellaris 4.5.2. It does ×0.5 damage to the planet and ×0.5 to armies (×1 is the normal rate). Its pop kill chance is 0.15, and it abducts pops instead of killing them. It stops killing pops on planets with 200 pops or fewer.

Damage to the planet: ×0.5
Damage to armies: ×0.5
Pop kill chance: 0.15
No kills at or below: 200 pops
Pops per bombardment: 0–200
ID: raiding

What Raiding bombardment does

Raiding Bombardment targets enemy population centers with specialized raiding craft that scoop up their people and bring them back to our worlds to put them to work.

- Light damage to Armies

- Light damage to Colony

- Will abduct Pops when possible instead of killing them

- Will NOT abduct or kill the last Pop. Each army on the colony increases the number of protected Pops.

×0.5 damage to the planet
×0.5 damage to armies
Pop kill chance 0.15
Abducts pops to your worlds instead of killing them
Keeps bombarding once the armies are dead: Yes
Keeps bombarding during ground combat: Yes

Who can use Raiding

What the game checks before a fleet can pick this stance.

Any of
- Owner
  - Ascension perk: Nihilistic Acquisition
- Owner
  - Civic: Barbaric Despoilers
- Owner
  - Origin: Your Ladder To The Sky
- Owner
  - Origin: Khanate Successor
- Owner
  - Country type: debt collectors
- Owner
  - Is mercenary
    - Any of
      - Civic: Mercenary Enclave
      - Is mercenary mindwarden enclave
- Controller
  - Any of
None of its ships
- Ship flag: behemoth hatchling ship

ID

raiding

Raiding: questions

How do you unlock Raiding bombardment?

The page lists the conditions the game checks for a fleet to use it.

What does Raiding bombardment do?

×0.5 damage to the planet, ×0.5 damage to armies, Pop kill chance 0.15 and Abducts pops to your worlds instead of killing them.

From the game files · Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776).