Weapons Platforms Usage?

[matt2000]

weapon platforms are really useful for one thing:

killing annoying ships trying to blow up your NEWLY COLONIZED planets.

One of the things that the AI tries to do is always target your newest planet. Therefore, i always take a colonizer and a transport: the colonizer has the coloney and 20kt population and the transport has about 1000kt weapons platforms

(weapons platform specs)
1x plat computer core (10k)
3x Capital Ship Missles (150k)
2x Armor (20k)
2x Sensors (20k)

Actually, the armor is in some ways better than the sheilds because you get the armor

10k = 70 pts protection

while sheild

40k = 20 pts protection

so for the same 40k,

40k = 280 pts protection

so for 40k you can ward off two wave motion hits plus a coulpla small weapon bLasts.

[Paladin]

Seems like a good strategy, but what I don't like with armor is having to repair it...
Btw, what happens to damaged, surviving units after combat? I assume they are repaired, but I never checked...

Oh, and one word about shield, I prefer 2 or 3 Crystalline Armor with a shield generator... This way you can handle unlimited small wepons bLasts...
(Oh, but how about planetary napalm on troops & weapon platforms? are they attacked first?

;-)