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I wasn't loosing that many capitals to assimilation. Most of my stuff just popped really fast. Once I got my fleet composition correct things changed a bit. My fleet would still pop in a minute or two if I was loosing that engagement however I was also killing stuff. I think mainly stuff in my engagements just died to fast for anything to be assimilated. I lost a few to assimilation but not many.That's why it was hard to tell. I basically just put them in

[quote who="G-ADM_Prawn" reply="4149" id="3378713"] The reason that the AI targets the Akiras is because they have the anti-module (i.e., anti-structure) roletype. The AI targets (non-cap) colonizers, siege (i.e., planet bombers), and anti-module first because they can presumably F-up their planets/defenses. If you wanna go mano-a-mano with the borg, you need a lot of Intrepids - usually about one Intrepid per borg ship. Since you have to outnumber the

[quote who="myfist0" reply="4147" id="3378644"] I always leave the assimilated ships and kill the Borg ships that cast the regen or assim abilities, if your fleet is not big enough for this, retreat. Akiras seem to get assimilated very easy, I don't use them fighting Borg fleets. I use Sovs and Galaxies with a pile of Novas and Intrepids to kill their fleet, some Miradas and Excelsiors for meat shields and regen, then replace losses with Akiras to kill starbases and struc

Fed vs. Borg. What are the best ships to use? I came across a problem with an assimilated sov. It along with 10 other frigs cruisers just wiped my fleet.. I could not get the Sov past 25% hull. Every time it popped that ability and was back to full hull. I had 8 Sov's 2 defiants and Akira's. Couldn't kill it. Actually my fleet wiped after a few rounds of this. It would take like 3 minutes to get it to 25% hull. This