[Mordante]

After all my refit woes, a more amusing puzzle; in the endgame of a pbem (turn 100+) my big rival has expanded massively and built a fleet of giant base ships to oppress the galaxy. His race is no maintenance and can simply keep building.

Mine is crystal-tech, attack advantage, movement advantage (+1)

The bulk of my enemies fleet is likely to be equipped with base-ships like this one;

"Tyrant mk 3"

1xBridge
5xCrew
5XLifeSupport
2x Quantom Engines (+3 move)
1x Solar Sail3 (+3 move)
1x Combat sensors 3 (+65 attack)
1x ECM 3 (+60 defense)
1x Multiplex Tracking 5
1x Stealth armour (cloak and defense bonus)
1x Emergency Propulsion 5
1x Self destruct device
6x Phased Shield Generator 5
5x Point defense Cannon 5
10x Massive Phased Polaron Beams

So, the above monster moves 8(4 in combat) - can take 2250 points of shield damage in combat and deals 2500 points of phased damage at range 6 per combat turn.

The question is, how to defeat a fleet of these vessels with finesse? (inferior odds/improved efficiency) There are likely to be around 150 of them in the main offensive when he comes over the border.

My empire can support a defensive fleet of around 150 similar vessels - but would struggle to put more of the them in the field at any one time.

I have access to all technology and can build at around 6000/6000/6000 resources a turn at my best planets.

So the challenge is to design a defender design that can deal with this ship in detail ... not just winning 1 on 1, but also engagements with inferior numbers ... ideally i'd like to be able to halt the advance of the main 150 strong fleet with half the defending ships to free up my remaining strength to counterattack....

All thoughts appreciated

AndyC