[Tomgs]

The Jraener use a lot of seekers don't they? If so make sure you have ships with plenty of point defence when you take them on. You could make special ships with lots of point defence to add to your fleet but I usually just put a couple on every ship because your ships experience level will go up a lot when they destroy the missles. This will make your beam weapons much more accurate. Find weapons with a lot of range. phased poloron beams are a good choice if you don't have organic or crystalurgy special abilities. I usually have a mix of beam and missle weapons on my ships so each can handle any threat but some make specialized ships for beam and missle. Either way works. Also since you are playing the EA you should try using some fighters. Missles can't target them so if you fight against a missle race they will not be able to hurt them until they research point defence (which they seem to do earlier since the patch). There are many different ways to win in this game thats what makes it fun someone else could give you advice which will work equally well and be completely different than mine.