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I think I've seen some of the TDM races (I think it was EA?) have the massive shield depeleter as the primary weapon of choice for boarding ships. Granted this is a limited example and hard to confirm if it would be useful since the AI builds so few of them if any. The Darloks also seem to have space reserved for planetary shields on their colonies. Unfortunately from my experience with fighting the Rage, I've found that the massive planetary shields are useless against phased weapons.