I was looking through the data files (seeing what would be left behind, and what I don't need for my mod), and noticed something odd in the DefaultStrategies.txt file.
No matter what your stragey is, (for AI and auto combat), you will always target a Planet Last....so basically if you had your planet filled with WP, and had a couple bases in orbit with nothing but armor, the AI would take out the bases, while the planet was launching missles, or firing weapons at it (and if it had PD, it would stop you from hitting the bases with missles)
I think the AI would do a lot better, putting the unarmed ships/bases behind planets.
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