I had a idea because u can have 3 fleets at a planet this gives u alot of tactical options

 

first in ur first fleet have many fighters and bomers just say a huge fleet of 5 SD come ur way take ur bombers and tak out shields and fighter bays use ur x wings to destroy fighters once their hevay ships are taking alot of damage then u bring missle and capital ships to finish off the SD i think this will work because the SD are much better then Mon calamaris but when ur Mon cals get to the battle the SD shield will be down and u just finish them off

 

Thoughts

if you can do that then that would be a very good tactic...till they sent in more ships and you have to take support ships into consideration

If this can be done it will add so much stragety mabe u wont send in ur SD first mabe send some scouts because if u send a big fleet this tatic should work well

 

 

hence the point of tie scouts?

also...is every post you make gonna have the face?

no offense, but the SD commander woud have to be a dunce to barge in with 5 SDs, no fighter cover and no intelligence.

 

Besides, a real commanders fighter would shred your bombers, that and a "huge" fleet isnt 5 SDs, thats not even a standard planetray assault group.

 

Support ships /\ like he mentioned, for example anit fighter frigates will pwn your bombers unless your moncals come foreward to deal with them, and thus now he has drawn you towards his supperiour ISDs

 

now thats what I call stratagem

Yes i know that was just an example and 5 SD is a big fleet in this game because u have a 20 pop cap and SD take up about 3 So thats 15 pop cap with 5 left for support ships untill the mods 5 and 6 SD will be big fleets

 

But anyways my fighters might get torn up but their caps will be hevely damaged when my mon cals get their with some suppot ships and it will be no contest plus loosing fighters is a small price to pay for taking out a fleet of SD any other suggestions i would appricate

well the tactic in the first post would work but what would you ahve in the other two fleets?

  The only thing that concerns me is that you cannot choose which units goes in first and which are held in reserve.

I have heard alot of people saying that but i believe they will fix that in the full game