[Paul1980au]

Organic armour can be helpful if you play a ground based invasion strategy. It re generates points and negates a certain damange level.

Combine this in medium or large troops with some weapons and a shield and a shield re generator and you almost never lose.

It can be useful to capture enemy planets instead of destroying them - just be careful when attacking to limit damage to removing enemy WP etc and not damage the facilities as if you capture the planet with facilities in tact it can be an immediate boost saving you having to rebuild faciities.

I like to capture enemy research labs and mining planets first. - SPace yards should be captured first in each system so the AI cannot rebuild defensive ships in that system. The spaceport is usually on the SY planet - i seperate them in each system. Another thing is to capture enemy colony ships with boarding parties - access to othre 2 colony types once you anaysise it and of course you can also then reuse them to settle youre systems.