Hey man, Space Whales they may be, but you can research those Pulse Beams to do nasty things. And nothing sucks more than suddenly losing 6 armor and 30 health a second for a minute or so, and when you try running that bomb comes in mighty handy while the Kanraks go to work with the splash missiles :D
When I've gotten to the point of needing to bomb a planet, what I've found works well is having a secondary (non assault fleet) involving an Evacuator, some kanraks and sentinels for casual defense and about 5-10 sieges. Then, when the Evacuator hits level 6 I'll turn one of those colonized planets into a forward military post and then start building more fleets from there.
I was just thinking the other day, it'd be cool if you could colonize a system of moons around Gas Giants, a more rare option being a terran or desert or something with a coupla moons, so you get just a little more taxation and tac/log slots
Wierd, I've been playing for about 3 weeks now and tonight is the first time I've seen the minidump error
