Mallesh Gopalswami

---"Once you've built a military starbase and taken the territory, the thing is fairly useless." That's fairly true that's why using this stratagy is really slow. I've never actually finished a game using this tactic. I always get bored and start a new one. ---"More than that, they're fat targets. If you have good speed (12+), you can easily hit them inside one turn from well outside the enemy's sensor range. Then you can pick off the fleets of small ships at your leisure."

Anyone else notice how powerful a group of small weak ships become in the presence of a decked out military star base? I play on the setting where the AI for enemies is set to intelligent. They usually have 5 to 10 times the number of ships I do and they're always stronger also. Buy my weak ships with a military star base can clean house. So far it's not that bad I'm just being defensive. But during that time I make a bunch of constructors like 30 of them and mabye to stacks of 3 or 4