[LGM]

I would suggest that you employ your boarding parties for taking colony ships to populations that breath another atmostphere. I have done that in one of my current PBW games. I have also captured enemy warships that do not have shields. My enemy does not have Phased Shields and I have many Ph Polaron Beams on my ships, so if he wants to defend against my two or three boarding party ships by putting shields on his ships, I would welcome that. It will leave him less room for armor. Use boarding parties as a threat that your opponent must think about, but do not use them as your main stay attack force until the bug gets fixed. I would suggest that you have 5-10% of your ships have boarding parties. Those few ships will be affective unless your opponent counters on all his ships. Do a similar thing with employing Carrier/Fighters or Missles to force your opponent to deploy Point Defenses.