Best weapon against planets?

[Puke]

easy? it requires a vastly superior infrastructure to build and maintain those expensive ships, pluss the spare research points to climb up the SM tech tree to the point of being able to build them.

Sure, it might be easier in a large quadrant. but in a small one, its a big trade off.

and 'too little left' depends entirely on your philosophy of conquest. I try to role play more than is tactically prudent. sometimes i capture, sometimes i glass.

or, you know, sometimes i capture and then jetison the population into space. or load them into transports and give them kamakaze orders. its extravagant, sure. but oh so fun.