Just want to say I am SOOO friggin happy I registered for this last year. The missions were a nice teaser but now at .51a I am addicted way more than I was to spaz. I'm on my first mishmash mod game (6th or 7th play through to kickass status) and had earlier captured a lone behemoth with two tacyon armed dragoons trying like mad to stay out of return fire range and a couple of medusae flanking to the rear. I had to laugh when it ate almost all 200 of my marines. I've since armed it with 10 tachyons and 4 multipulse lasers and a crapton of blasters/tactical lasers and given the point defense augment. And yea it's overkill but soooo much fun with a full compliment of fighters/bombers. I still can't beat the mega huge supply fleets though, once I have to raise shields to fend off multiple cruisers I'm toast cus I don't have enough venting power.
But the fun just never ends! Soon as I get bored with that beast I can try something else or start over (I found the mishmash game was much harder to get going but I didn't know alot of the ships).
Thanks devs! Keep up the awesome work! and thanks to the modders too!