Solo Colony Ship to Asteroid

All of the guides say that a single colony ship can start a colony on an asteroid and that if you build a weapons platform in space it will kill the bombarding ship and the asteroid colony will survive. 

I've tried this 3 times now and have lost the asteroid every time.  It's not even close.  The asteroid colony is dead long before the Krosov planet bombarding ship is dead.  This last time I had a scout and the colony ship shooting the krosov the whole time and that wasn't enough either.  Has there been a change to the game?  If not how do you suppose I'm screwing this up?

 

edited for pertinent info: i've got the original version of the game version 1.91, but haven't got the upgraded editions... so I don't have starbases and a few other game upgrades... is this my problem?

 

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Reply #1 Top

thats the problem, you have the origional version of the game.

This only works with the expansion packs.

Reply #2 Top

Thanks, Lead head.  :)

 

Resolving the problem.  Now I'll get to find out what a starbase is.