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Actually I mostly agree with you. Especially for multiplayer games where anything that paints a target on your own forehead must be very carefully considered as I have learned when trying to play a religious race. My views on this issue have changed somewhat over time as I have gained more experience.

I also think that training is way more important than Bezerker. This whole thread started with my questions about other "strategies" remember? As SEIV works now Direct Fire weapons are the only thing that really works well. Bezerker and training are correspondingly quite important (although perhaps not all important). Ramming could work well even unmodded if the ramming targets issue was resolved (it stopped your first advance). But as it is now it is too easily countered by your opponent just putting a non-combat ship that is one hull size bigger than your combat vessels into his fleet. I bet this was never really playtested as the designers probably didn't really think people would use ramming that much.