[Alneyan]

I would definitively advise against using Baseships, since you would be just begging your opponent to switch to Maximum weapon range, and the range would likely still matter with only two hundred ships in the battle (how many ships are needed to come down to a contest of numbers is a matter of debate).

Interesting idea about fighting in a storm, or much better, in a nebulae (they eat 5,000 shield points if memory serves). I must admit I do not know if these will stop the actual regeneration of shield points however; I have a hunch it only removes the shield points at the start of the battle, and creating shield points should still work. *Hurries to the laboratory*

*Rushes back to this thread, and takes off his lab coat* I was quite wrong. A nebulae stops both shield generation and regeneration of shields in the course of a battle. Interesting to say the least. Now you merely need to lure the Fiend into one such system, and voilà!