[Dracus]

here is another little tip:

A way to help protect your homeworld or any planet for that matter in addition to using sat's or wp's is to add some mines in orbit. Whiles mines are only good for ships entering orbit. They have been very effective to prevent the loss of one of my major planets. A fleet moves into to glass the area, they run into mines and take some losses. Then in the attack you mop up the remaining ships. The down side is that if a ship get damaged to were it can't move and you have no way to attack it then the planet become blockaded.
To keep re-supply the mine field, either use a base with a SY and mine laying bays or keep a cargo ship in orbit with a couple of mine laying bays building mines on the planet and loading them to the ship after each attack then you can re-build the field. To protect the ship, when battle starts, just move it behind the planet out of attack range. but behind the cover of your planet defenses.
Of course this all is somewhat useless if they send in penty of mine sweepers.
(if you use strat rather then tach then most of the time you will lose the ship since it will run to the corner to die.) But sometimes the mines take out all the attacking ships ant you don't have to battle.

[This message has been edited by Dracus (edited 20 April 2001).]