[geoschmo]

It should work just like a non-pbem game in which you play the battles in strategic mode instead of tactical.

I have been playing in strategic myslef lately and have not got all the kinks worked out. I was attacking an enemy planet recently and it took three turns of trying before my transports attempted to land the troops.

My ships wiped out his defenses, but the transports would not move in on the planet until every ship/sat/weap.plat/fighter were destroyed.

He had a colony ship that took a couple of turns to catch and destroy, and my transports would not close until that happened.

Geo