[Starhawk]

Hmmm thanks. I got a lot of good advice there and will take a good long look at it when I do get the full game.

"That depends on what they have and what you have. How close are they to major repair centers? Do they have repair centers with them? Can you replace your lost ships before they can build new ones and repair the damaged ones?"

They had mainly light cruisers and damaged cruisers left. Their survivng assault fleet was smaller then my survivng remnents of my navy BUT my navy was more spread out then theirs.

As for rebuilding, they had no repair ships in their fleet and they were at least two jumps away from their own space and only capable of moving 1 space per turn so I don't think they would have really been able to launch a good attack but
I'm not sure. Their cruisers were inferior in design to mine on a one on one basis but they had enough firepower to kill a colony.


"that all depends on the circumstances. You have to look at the situation and decide what needs to be done based on that. Mines might be a good quickie defense if the enemy doesn't have minesweepers. Or you could fortify warp points. Generally you are better off getting a new offensive fleet out fast. The best defense is to not need one but make the other guy need one."


See problem here is I had no surviving minelayers, the enemy managed to destroy both my ships only two turns before our fleets engaged each other :-(. SO mines are out of the question.

I had 10 planets to defend, most of which had spaceyards. But the enemy had at least 15 planets in his empire and a great many of them had spaceyards too I beleive. That is how i think he was able to so easily out produce me. But he never did follow through with his attack, in fact right after our battle his fleet left my space.

[ December 01, 2003, 19:05: Message edited by: Starhawk ]