quote:
maybe if you gave their hulls the emissive armor ability with a threshold of about 150 points of damage
You would not require large capital ships with WMGs, but rather a stack of fighters.
50 Fighters with DUC I's can do 1000 damage per shot, as far as emissive armor sees it.
In one game, I was using Very Heavily shielded large fighters, that could destroy an AI baseship in three shots, and lose only one or two fighters.
(I had organic & religious, so 100% to-hit, plus lightning rays did almost 1200-1500 damage using only 30-40 fighters)