Thanks to a friend...

[Doogie2K]

...who has been teaching me this game and swapping strategies with me almost from Day One, I have managed to, in a single turn, capture over 100 DNs of the 125 that came against me .

I'm playing a Religious and Psychic race in a TDM Game. The Earth Alliance dominates the galaxy, with me relegated to two sectors in the SW corner. Suffice to say, the AI's been trying for those two systems for a very long time. We did some meddling with the tactical combat options to rearrange my default strategy to Capture Ships with the secondary to Optimal Firing Range. We then refit my DNs with two Allegiance Subverters, three Heavy SHD Depleters, and four TK Projectors. In the first battle, I took 72 out of 91 DNs that came for me; the second battle I took 27/32; the Last I took the two remaining stragglers.

Now, granted, I had 120 DNs on that warp point to begin with, but the fact still remains that until now, I've been primarily destroying rather than capturing ships; now, I have enough ships that I can send through a large attack force without sacrificing my defenses at all. So, my thanks to Grand Admiral Grover for the inspiration. With this success, I've decided to put AS's on my Weapon Platforms and Satellites to allow me to capture even MORE ships.

My only hope: they don't start putting Master Computers on their ships.