Sue me. My fleet was specialised into a defensive fleet - which means that whilst the value of my fleet was lower, the proportion that was able to be used to defend was prolly higher. I only started to get overrun towards the end when 1) people started getting really big; 2) i kept loosing ships and so on. Furthermore, consider the problem of
overkill - ie, you are the only person on so you send def, but the attack could have been sovered by something half as large and is thus inherrently wasteful.
it works both ways mate
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