Stations are the Most Annoying Thing in This Game

[Algeroth]

I was surprised by the stations. From the prerelease information I got impression that they would interact with city placement whatsoever, except the one hex that they would occupy. Oh boy, how wrong I was.

 

[zenmaster]

Ugh. I agree with the OP completely. The alien nests and mountains already make early expansion enough of a pain, but a station completely blocking your obvious first expansion city sites is more than annoying.

Not sure why my artillery could not attack a station in the game I've been playing. Do I need to declare war in another screen? Could not target it with a ranged attack.

I would really like to see an option in that early "station" quest saying "You are not welcome to settle near my colony, go away!" for players who don't want to deal with a nearby station so early.

 

[Soronery]

You can kill the stations with 1 ranger and 1 melee unit. Stations don't fire at your units.

 

[zenmaster]

I know stations can be attacked; just that my ranged unit could not target it so I figured there was some issue I was missing.

Found the solution in another thread. To attack a station with a ranged unit, you need to right click to do it. Just targeting normally using icon doesn't seem to work for some (or all?).

 

[DCParry]

You can kill the stations with 1 ranger and 1 melee unit. Stations don't fire at your units.

Actually, you need more than 1 ranger. The station will heal more than the damage you do every round.