Banned for the principle of it
LEADER MkII
Good defensive Doctrine there Mystikmind, but for offense, you'll need those small (and up) hulls so you can have a good mix of engine, weapons and armour. Granted, I built my military ships with a small or medium hull, only because for quick strike capabilities, good punch and ability to take punches as well.&
Banned for not thinking about the fact I might be Boer.
Banned for living under the socio-economic dogma of wearing underwear
Banned for being a smarty pants
Banned for pointing out people's flaw
There is a tech that allows this, but indirectly: The Orbital Fleet Center (or Tower or whatever) which makes all your ship in orbit around your worlds to act as a single fleet when under attack. You get it after you researched the Space Militarisation tech. While your build and named Fleet won't stay together on your orbital tab, when there's a battle, ALL your orbiting ship act as a fleet; so you got your 3 medium vessels fleet, go into or
Well, it depends; the core designs are good because in case of a sudden war or whatever, you can start pumping ships easy, instead of taking some 10-15 minutes to play around the shipyard. But in a 1-on-1, custom vs core hmm...depends; the core designs are available when you get the relevant tech attatched to them, while custom ships you can made them as you wish and put what you want on it... Also, the core designs seems to favour laser weaponry; I had La
The Korx are a good pick; they won't go all WAAAAAARRRRRR on you, since they are mostly traders; but if you pick a diffrent alignement they JUST might attack; Granted, the only time they declare war on me (I play Terran), they claimed someone paid they a good chunk of creds to get in trouble with us. Or get a military race (Taurians are ok) and maybe have the Altarians in your team to back you up: they research, you bombard.