[Menschenfresser]

Point of Defense is it.

Some put one of two per ship and others build ships with mostly PoD cannons on them.

If you do the second, build them with one regular weapon a beam or something, because otherwise if you ever use strategic combat a ship with only point of defense will run from combat.

You'll find that missles are only effective against badly designed fleets and ships. Although I have run into several planets that had so many missles even a fleet of ships with one or two point of defense cannons a piece could have taken a good hit.

The best thing to do in tactical is to move your fastest ship into range of the missle ships, have them all fire on this one ship, and then have it haul *** in the opposite direction, while the rest of the fleet moves in on the enemy as they attempt to rearm.