what tactics to you use and why?

uh, sorry to try to revive this, but this happend to me recently. i had a system with troops and a minor character on it. I found out that an imp fleet was on it's way to level the place. so, i take my measly scrap of a defensive fleet and move it away before the imps arrive (why waste the ships when i will lose badly anyway?) so, the imp fleet is over my planet, blockading it. i try to get my minor character to escape. bam, captured. ok, at least he is still alive. the imps just chill in orbit for a few days. then i get an idea. i have no hope of stopping these imps, so why give them a viable resource producing planet? i go in, scap every facility mine and refinery. then the imps take the planet by force a day or so later.

 

however, a neutral planet in that sector was angry at the imps and just joined my side. so, i considered myself somewhat clever. i gave the imps a potentially valuable planet (as opposed to an already valuable planet) and i somehow convinced another planet of the same sector to join me.

 

yeah, i should have evacced the minor character with the fleet, but he was returning from a mission and barely made it through the already blockading imps