RudgerRahl

You can somewhat use the ai 'fear' of your major fleets for defense purposes. I actually tend to leave the bulk of my fleet as defense and make small fleets for quicks strike offense. This works very will with either choke points or if you own a whole star system on a big map just camp the star.(i preferably have a huge carrier fleet)Believe it or not, even pirates will be afraid of attacking you if you have huge enough of a fleet defending the only way into your systems. I had thousands and tho

Thanks for the guide, it definatly has good advice in it. Aside from the first couple times I played the ai realy hasnt given me much trouble, but I tend to turtle and take 5-10 hours to finish a match. I will say that its a very TEC biased strategy of offense + economy strategy though. I highly recommend newbies who are frustrated with the AI to do just as this suggests, but i agree with caliban that it might be too repetative. Here are my slight Racial modifications Advent/Va

RA realy in my opinions will not sway the battle one way or another. Likely whoever has won more skirmishs leading up to the late in the game will come out on top. Hate to use an overly exagerated expample as this but... If a TEC player with some Kols has been wining battle after small battle agaisnt you, and works up to the high 7-10 lvl range with his battleships. There is likely no amount of returing armada that is gonna save you. Likewise if you have been wining all day long, the most RA is

In the case of TEC, I think Kodiak spam works well if you also split your time with Flak Frigates(added bonus of sharing weapon tree). Otherwise if someone were to have a carrier fleet with lots of heavy bombers your Kols and Kodiaks will get trashed. Although from what i have seen not too many people make carrier fleets.