danimal05

Thanks for the pointers. Was unaware of the 1 point rule. Seems quite favorable for the DL. I am 17 months into the Achilless Heel mission, suicidal level. DL has 3 escort ships and a defender ship with 22 hit points and circa 114 beam weapons. So to take out these ships it looks like I would need at least 4*8+1 = 33 tiny ships + starbases to slow them down + troop transports + ships to counteract their new builds. WOW I guess a restart with a cha

Playing the same mission. DL ships seem invulnerable. Can get them to 1/22 hit points. But after that do not score a single hit no matter whether I send 1 ship or a fleet of 3. I use phoenixes each with beam weapons of 5 and +4 due to star bases. Did you encounter this problem?

So I started the first campaign in version 2.02. I am on the mission where one needs to capture Teth. So I built up starbases and fleets of sacrifical ships to take on the Dread Lords' vessels. But these vessels never die. I can get them to 1 hit point (costs me 3-4 phoenixes to get there, each has a 5 firepower and +4 from star bases). After that, no matter whether I send 1 ship or a fleet of 3, I cannot score another hit. The level of the Dread Lord