He uses crusiers for defense? Their advantage is speed and reasonable attack ratings, seems stupid to use them on defense. I can apparently make super battleships now. Need to experiment with what works best to crush planetary defense, high defense expensive craft, lots of cheap craft, large fleets, multiple smaller fleets that sort of thing.
The 1.5x combat numbers cap makes mass cruisers reasonable against everything.
So far I've only encountered the defense system twice, against two fleets of 1 cruiser each. Both fleets were approaching the same planet, which was able to target both fleets in a single turn. One fleet was slightly further away from the planet, and the attack missed, the other attack hit and destroyed the cruiser.
Defence system is 20% chance to kill any ship in range per turn.
Since Quatloos are basically worthless its a choice between defence system and more subspacers.
