I have been reading various posts about how the TEC unit called the LRM FRIGATE the most used unit .And is almost the only thing people use when playing that faction,giong as far as to say the main strategy is to tech up to LRM FRIGATE and spam them for the win.

So last night I played A medium random map with 4 players A.I set to normal difficulty,went ahead and tried the tactic on ai opponents and proceded to whip their asses.

Ok and fine enough right? NO!!!!! the reason is. I never researched anything but 3 techs
artic ,volcanic colonization and lrm frigate. never built but one capital ship. it was not needed if you do the math. you can purchase 12 lrm frigates for about the same cost
all i needed was to increase my fleet capacity .by end game I lost count of how many LRM frigates i had but suffice to say it was alot .

the only downfall with this approach was it took forever to bombard and capture a planet due to only one ship being able.but this was just a test

either way I ended up with ships in every planets gravity well just sitting waiting for the constructor ships to build so i can kill em again ,untill my one capital ship makes its way there to finally capture the planet.

so there i sat with ships in all 19 planets wells . already owning 2/3 of the system
the enemy was crippled and could do nothing .

the pirates ,,, I am not sure what happened but in first 5 mins of the game they just were dead all of the sudden .

which sucked . i like the pirates . hell half the time i let em come my way for the experience.but not this game .:[

so my point of all this is . LRM frigates makes the tec tech tree useless .there is no need to research any further than it. so what to do about this?
Make it more expensive ?
move it up the tech tree further?
limit its numbers able to be deployed?(this is my suggestion make its supply higher.like 5x as high as it is)


well theres my 2 cents .

has anyone else ever encountered pirates getting killed instantly on med or large maps?