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Use a small group of those to lure a dangerous defence fleet away from a strategic planet so that another, real attack fleet can attack the planet.
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On this point that StrategiaInUltima made about trying to lure away the defence fleet, I'd like to add this idea. Repulser beams should be modified to be able to push bit by bit a ship into a planet's atmosphere which leads to its subsequent crash. (IMHO, this would be realistic. Objects not entering the atmosphere with the right approach vector do burn up.) Thus, this will discourage empires from surrounding their planets so that the offence fleet doesn't have to go up against the defence fleet plus planet-based weapons. This would make it more challenging for the defender to defend his holdings as he will have to come up with new defenses to protect the immediate circumference around his planets, while his fleet is further out in space duking it out with the attacker.