Anyone tried The Barbarian Horde strategy?

[Jubala]

Yeah, I'm aware of the differences between Stars! and SE4, that's why I asked if anyone had used the strategy. The two main reasons it won't work as well in SE4 imo is that in Stars! ships have no maintainance and in combat they take damage as stacks, not individual ships, meaning they Last longer in general and the bigger the stack the better.

And I know it's possible to get no maintainance in SE4 but I consider it an abuse and never use it.