grinningman

I think it's worth sticking with this for a while before you give up on it. The strategy comes from ship design, building ships with weaponry and defences to counter your opponent's ships with the random tech tree, rather than juggling happiness/colony development a la civ4. It also takes a while (took me a while anyway) to know what's going on in tactical combat. The tutorial wasn't very helpful. The kerberos forums have more info: http://www.kerberos-productions.com/forum/