At What Point Do You Know You Have Won

[dogscoff]

Around 30 or so Light Cruisers armed with CapMissV, and a lot of patience, normally does the trick. A volley of 150 missiles can even hurt a Proportions Homeworld, given time, at least playing non-simultaneous vs the AI The hard part is keeping them supplied.
What I like is the way taking such a heavily fortified place typically turns into a siege!

*narf* That's a big big fleet for a proportions game. In my current simultaneous vsAI game I'm building a fleet of cap missile cruisers to take out the pesky AI who has shared a system with me from the start. I reckon I can probably support about 5 or 6 of those ships, and that's if I strip down my other fleets completely. Granted I have very little colony development and a small homeworld, but even so, 30 ships just for a bombardment fleet is huge.

I'm trying to switch as much of my defence as possible to units, but I'm still not sure how I'm going to beat him (short of glassing, which is unnacceptable.)

One tactic I'm considering is the "troop swarm". If I sent in dozens of troops-laden scouts with PD and ECM, some of them ought to make it down to the surface, surely.