Style and Fun
by Xen Xander

For a fun (but not entirely effective) strategy, put an interceptor or fighter squad in every ship you design. Even just one single squad, then fill the ship with whatever else you were going to add. I tried this one time, and while not fully effective, it does have a small merit, as NPCs will have to deal even with a tiny fighter screen, and it’s funny to see the LR armadas launch even a sparsely populated fighter cloud. Additionally, add one single missile rack, even if it’s just 1 missile, 1 rack, - your strongest missile. It’s doubly entertaining to see a tiny fighter cloud and a moderate/large missile launch in the first five seconds of battle from your LR armadas, and it has the potential to take down the planet defenses (if you initially target the planet with every armada you have).