[Antonin]

Which type of ship do you consider to be your workhorse? I notice the AI tends to build *lots* and *lots* of either light cruisers or dreadnoughts.

Me, I rely on destroyers a lot. Relatively cheap to build and maintain in numbers large enough to have a military presence in a number of systems, big enough to do respectable damage, but not so valuable that losing some will cost you the war.

Frigates are also a lot of fun. A small flotilla of 2 destroyers supported by 5 or so frigates can be a fun instrument for long-distance raids.

I tend to have trouble building up a resource base large enough to support lots of huge ships, so the smaller ones tend to carry the load for me.

I like to use the Klingon ship set I downloaded from New Age Shipyards, so even the small ships look incredibly cool.