[LGM]

It seems to me the only counter is to not use point defenses on your ships. That really sets you up to be vulnerable to missles since point defenses are the only thing that stops them. You need to utilize PDCs off-ship:

Launch Satelittes with Point Defenses as you widthdraw with no point defenses on your ships. The fleet will leave behind Satellites as it moves back to max range. This will work somewhat against missles. You want to have more storage capacity than lauch capacity. Use a single Satellite Bay with one or two Cargo Storage III components. Sat Bay III + Cargo III is 370 KT. That would be 3 large Sats or 4 smalls. For 50 KT on every ship, you can spread a lot of point defenses out there. Of course, you take on the micromanagement of building hoards of satellites to do this and you have to stop and gather them up after every battle. You could have supply ships to transfer satellites to the warships between battles and leave some behind to gather up those deployed. This will probably work better at warp point battles. Otherwise, you could increase to 2 cargo components so that you can launch for 5 to 7 turns before your run out of sats to launch.

[ July 31, 2002, 18:27: Message edited by: LGM ]