Recipie for Doom..

[Neo]

The easiest way I have found to defend planets just captured is to have them launch a couple of turns of mines right way. Its faster than weapons platforms and you don't need to keep ships there as long as you leave enough troops to keep their mood ok so they can keep cranking out mines if necessary. Works well against the AI anyway since I haven't seen one yet that actually includes mine sweepers in attack fleets so they can never clear more than about five mines in one spot without getting themselves blown up.

Then again, here I am a Private giving advice to a Captain - you probably already now all this.

[Phoenix-D]

Personally, I just don't like dealing with troops, so I drop my racial useage of troops down (made dealing with the pacifistic Irha-Nrr..interesting..), which results in my butt getting kicked if I try

Mines work, but try that on PBW and you get your butt kicked. Most players take to including minesweepers in all their fleets, enough sweepers to destroy all your mines.

Phoenix-D

[capnq]

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Mines work, but try that on PBW and you get your butt kicked.

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That trick does work on PBW, but usually not more often than once.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"