Opinions please!

[apache]

Whatever you do, you want to act before more ships get there. I have seen many occasions when an AI moves a defense fleet right next to my attacking fleet when I am actively at war with him. But the AI apparently looks at the ship classes and decides that if he attacked first, he would get slaughtered, so he just keeps his fleet right next to mine until I attack it. I never wait too long to kill the fleet, but I am pretty sure that it recognizes the need to send more ships to attack my fleet. Maybe one day I will sit and wait to see if the AI will ever attack my fleet in that situation.