Admiral Kole

What, No black guy admiral (they really need to put character's behind those imiges)

thanx all, the strategies were helpful. Came up with a rather interesting sollution as well. I kept the bulk of the fleet (escort craft and the like, with a good 3/4 of the support craft) at the key border systems, and had my Capitol ships with a minimum escort and some support craft (repair frigates and such) head to the enemy worlds. 16 Capitol ships seems to do the trick rather nicely. If your wondering about composition. 8x Kol Battle ships 1x Akkan

I like it, if only because when playing on hard, the pirates in my game get it into their heads that its smart and easy to lie in wait at wormholes or stars to blast my trade ships to kingdom come and collect the bouty on me.

As TEC i go for the Kol after i get the Akkan as my freebee. The two make a formidable force, The Kol as a rediculusly large firing ark (so far as i know, the only blind spot is the starboard side, where the f***ing useless lazer battery is) and its auto cannons tear through most ships. The Marza is good two because it can seige planets with ease, and when given a decent escort its hard to crack it. I seldom play advet, but when i do, i usually build a crud load of Prog

My problem is this, I can get a fleet that puts my enemies to shame, i have more capitol ships than all others put to gether. given the chance, i could crush them all with but a sneeze. Unfotunately they just throw waves of upwards of 90 planetary bombardment ships at me for hours on end, and static and skeleton defences just can't keep my planets from becoming nuclear dumping spots. and while my fleet is busy trying to keep my planets from amagedon, the enemy rebuilds everything i destroyed.

I'll tell you what im for, Im for more story, I don't give a hoot how i get it, i just wan't it. Ill admit, I would like to see a campaign, and i don't think it flop like it does in other 4X games, particularly because this is not like other 4X games, but thats beside the point. HOWEVER. There are other things that i think should be solved first. For instance, i hate the diplomacy setup of this game, that needs fixing. The research is to much like your ru