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Mulder wrote:
> 
> In article <01bc830c$87cf7ea0$679e...@MarkA.impacttech.com>,
> ma...@impacttech.com says...
> >
> >I played a game where it got down to me (humans) and the Psilons. Since the
> >Psilons had the lion's share of the stars and were peaceful, they left me
> >alone. I researched and maxed out tech and then built a fleet of about 40
> >Doomstars. I attacked the Psilons and their fleet had 115 Doomstars, heh
> >heh. Needless to say, they wiped the floor with me. The damn battle took
> >about 10 minutes. I think mine were a little better than theirs, but I was
> >overmatched by numbers. An odd game, to say the least.
> >
> I just got finished playing a hard game using a Custom race.  I ended up
> fighting the Gnolams.  I had unfortunately let them build up about 17 star
> systems to my 8.  I noticed them start taking stars like crazy and found out
> they had 100 ships, mostly titans, this has been the largest fleet i've ever
> seen, and I only had 10 count them 10!  ships to fight with.  I had already
> claimed orion and all, but it didn't really matter when a force that big comes
> at me.  The battles took at least 15 minutes.  How does one fight a fleet like
> this????
> I ended up going back a few turns, to before we were at war.  I had ALL my
> colonies build one titan with stellar converters.  I sent a ship to each of
> their colonies and took their planets, they had stuipidly left their planets
> undefended in lieu of conquering.  I lost two planets to the 100+ fleet, but I
> won.
> 
> IMO there should be a limit of about 30 or 40 ships on fleet sizes, just so you
> can have a chance and the battles won't take so long.

To defeat large fleets: time warp facilitator, stasis fields, heavy
plasma beams, lightning shield, tractor beams, and the Antarean device
that makes damage 1/3 but you can`t have shields. I have often had
fleets with 4-5 Doom stars and conquered enemy fleets with the same
number of doom stars + lots of titans and battleships. You would want to
put your weaponry in several "slots" instead of 1x12 Plasmas, you`d have
maybe 3x4, because if you damage enemy ships so that they are almost
destroyed, they may blow up, selvdestruct or make a run for it. Make the
plasmas the primary weapon of your arsenal unless the enemy has max in
shield tech. Also use structural analizer and the achilles device.