Combining cloaking with stealth armor

[Lupusman]

Sometimes you don't want to cloak all your ships. You send a fleet in enemy territory, say 20 ships, leaving 1 uncloaked. He intercepts with 5 ships (instead of all of his available ships) thinking there's only one to kill. He gets a nice surprise in combat.

[Claymore 2002]

Yeah. I used to do that when I would play the stealth race in Stars.

Have a few non-cloaking cruisers enter a system along with a stack of fully cloaked Battleships.

Made for some interesting diplomatic exchanges....