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Selective

Orbital bombardment stance
Default stance

Selective is an orbital bombardment stance in Stellaris 4.5.2, the one new fleets use. It does ×0.5 damage to the planet and ×1 to armies (×1 is the normal rate). Its pop kill chance is 0.25. It stops killing pops on planets with 2,100 pops or fewer.

Damage to the planet
×0.5
Damage to armies
×1
Pop kill chance
0.25
No kills at or below
2,100 pops
Pops per bombardment
0–200
ID
selective

What Selective bombardment does

Selective Bombardment targets only identified military sites, taking care to avoid needless civilian casualties.

- Moderate damage to Armies

- Moderate damage to Colony

- Light damage to Pops

- Will NOT bombard undefended colonies

- Will NOT kill the last … Pops

  • ×0.5 damage to the planet
  • ×1 damage to armies
  • Pop kill chance 0.25
  • Keeps bombarding once the armies are dead: No
  • Keeps bombarding during ground combat: No

Who can use Selective

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

  • Owner
    • Any of
      • Not: Country type: default
      • Policy: Selective
      • Policy: Indiscriminate
      • Policy: Armageddon
  • None of its ships
    • Ship flag: behemoth hatchling ship

ID

selective

Selective: questions

How do you unlock Selective bombardment?

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

What does Selective bombardment do?

×0.5 damage to the planet, ×1 damage to armies and Pop kill chance 0.25.

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

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