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[FreedomFighter]

Check the independent market. They seem to sell everything but pretty random. You only need to be on good relationship with them. Black Market work too.

If your enemy has capital or two, don't engage them at the middle. Setup a defensive or rally point around where your spawn since some capital is so slow. Until it crawl to you, you get to decimate all of their smaller ship first. Capital is powerful but without any escort, it just become one big punching bag. Sometime, enemy just don't deploy them outright because he might has big fleet. If you push them to their deployment zone, you get surprise close range capital kiss when they deploy it which might end up kill one or two of your ship.

[Megas]

Afflictor is great for Quantum Disruptor followed by alpha strike shenanigans with AM Blaster or torpedoes.  They can easily punch above their weight or assist other ships.  If you do not have a capital, an Afflictor may be useful for wrecking that enemy capital that might wipe out your fleet.

I try to keep one in my endgame fleet, especially if I do not have a Hyperion.

[FreedomFighter]

Afflictor is great for Quantum Disruptor followed by alpha strike shenanigans with AM Blaster or torpedoes.  They can easily punch above their weight or assist other ships.  If you do not have a capital, an Afflictor may be useful for wrecking that enemy capital that might wipe out your fleet.

I try to keep one in my endgame fleet, especially if I do not have a Hyperion.

Both Afflictor and Shade do best at annoying the crap out of bigger ship. Just don't let them hit you or you will phase forever. AI like to waste their flux trying to shoot phasing ship too, so even if you can't move it to flank or find viable target, just phase it through their fleet is enough to screw with them.

[Megas]

Shade is kind of useless ever since its phase cloak became to what it is.  With old Phase Cloak (no cooldown delay, no time shift), it was an excellent kiting ghost tank.  Now, it is just an annoyance that runs out of peak performance/CR too fast if AI uses it.

Afflictor, on the other hand, can bypass shields (with or without Quantum Disruptor) and alpha strike things dead fast, at least under player control.  Enemy capital threatening to annihilate your fleet and you have no capital of your own to counter?  Bring Afflictor, disrupt its shields, then alpha strike!

[Midnight Kitsune]

Afflictor usage getting less and less when both me and enemy fleet starting to deploy half of fleet as capital. Also, it is hopeless when fighter wing just camp out for you. Once your flux run out then you are doom. At lease with Shade EMP, it fry every missile and fighter around it. Even if the AM and Reaper ran out, it still has EMP to be useful to the fleet. Once i got Shade, i sold all of my Afflictor. High-tech fleet pretty much health hazard for lightly armored Phase ship due to beam hit you with perfect accuracy. Capital especially Paragon eat Afflictor alive and no way AM can get pass Fortress shield. Onslaugh for some reason, love to has Devastator cannon at their rare, so even if you get behind them, it instant gib you the moment you come out of phase. Shade get more use to me when Astral becoming norm to enemy fleet. 6 Wings of fighters? Say no more since Shade can fry all of them in the same time. Also, it is sadistic to perma-stun some ship with it.

I always try to deploy my phase ships with another ship with some anti fighter missiles. This has worked pretty good so far.
I have not yet ventured into the capital ship area yet. All the pirate bounties now have capital ships and just by looking at the specs on them they have enough guns to decimate my fleet before my ships even get into fire range. The only way I have seen for me to get into the capital ship business is to take a faction commision.

Actually the military markets of the Indies DO have caps sometimes and they don't need commissions. Alternatively you could pick a fight with a fleet that has one in it and hope you get it. Or even just follow fleets that are fighting and hope to find one

[Marolla]

The secret to supply management is to run a fleet of ships packed with d-mods, with all the relevant industry skills. The more the better!