Yeah, well I'm none too happy about tactical combat with the 1.60 Mod
I had this glorious fleet and managed to make my neighboring empire actually surrender (Just how the hell are you supposed to manage doubling the size of your empire in one turn? I STILL have riots even 25 turns later!)
Anyways, I then ran into the Narn and Darloks (Thank goodness I already have researched the daylights out of intelligence!) I've not much contact with the Darloks, and forged a partnership with the Narn.... (Oh, I'm playing Earth Alliance) and then I ran into the Sergetti... ACK! ACK! ACK! My glorious fleet was reduced to rubble. Had something to do with his Polaran Beams vs. Class V REGULAR shields. OK... No problem even though I didn't get any of his ships... And my poor fighters. I've not seen so much point defense! I've a massive research and industrial base. About a year and a half later, I've reasoable phase shields. So I rebuild my fleet. This time, no fighters, lots of phase sheilds, ecm, stealth armor, and some nifty weapons.... Round 2 goes to... Sergetti. HAH! At least this time I killed a few ships! Except all the loved ones back at the Earth Alliance homeworld are weeping... Damn another fleet gone? Well, now I've gone defensive. Thank goodness there appears to only be one single wormhole between our empires. I'm tempted to close it, but I just don't want to yet... Though I've got a wormhole collapser on standby. Lots of mines though! 100 large mines with Type III warheads oughta slow him down... He's already now lost TWO fleets of 30+ ships against this minefield... Meanwhile, I'm buildign the SEIV equivalent of an A-Bomb... The Star Killer. I'm'a gonna find his home system and blow the crap outta his star... And I've also just rebuilt a new fleet... Copying his designs for DN's... Now we'll see who kicks some butt... Except stupid stupid stupid, I forgot to bring along mine sweepers and just lost 8 of my shiny new dreadnoughts, as well as my two supply ships... At least the repair ships came through OK (BOy have they some work to do). Well, I think I'll bring up a couple of Baseships and some mine sweepers and then we'll see whose laughing.... Hehe, here comes his fleet... HOLY COW! I don't think I've EVER seen a computer player use that many fighters! I think he's got like FIVE??? heavy carriers? Thank god I copied his desgins and have a LOT of PD... Well, we'll just see how this goes... Over and out...
Codo