How Big Does Your Navy Get?

[Antonin]

I don't mean throughout the game, but when the AI races at some point refuse to be reasonable and force you to take up the sword and *seriously* go to war, how large is your navy at that point?

In my current game I'm playing using the so-cool Klingon shipset. My empire covers the entire "western" end of the map, with a strange buffer of asteroid and blackhole systems between me and most everybody else. I've been warring with the Cue Cappa and the Abbingdon (spelling?), but am now at peace with both. I think pressure from my Klingons and the Federation (TOS) made them see that 2-front wars are not a good idea.

Now I'm at war with the Federation (TOS), which seems to emerge as the 800 lb gorilla in every game they show up in. This war has been going on and on for many years. I've got my resource converter going, have researched quantum reactors and seem to be doing OK, economy and intel-wise

I've only got 59 ships total, including just two battle cruisers. The Feds, meanwhile, have *lots* of DNs. I don't know how many ships they've got total; I usually keep the score viewing option off to make things tense.

Is just 59 ships normal at this stage of the game? The AI seems to come at me with waves and waves of ships, which I've so far been able to chop down with mines and fighters. I've got 4200+ "units."