[brianeyci]

One thing not mentioned...

Beam and missile research is parallel with organic races. So, you do not lose any research when researching organic weapons if you want to convert to missiles later.

About the only reason why you'd research missiles, researching conventional missiles seems stupid because it sets you back hundreds of K of research points that are useless later on when they adapt and mount PDC.

And, you can do the nasty tactic if you're really rich of retrofitting all your ships in the middle of the battlefield to missile boats and annihilating your opponet if you notice they don't mount PDC to save space if you're organic (I have yet to pull this off though).

Brian