I am playing in a campaign at the moment, I thought I had mentioned that but must have forgotten. The worst thing is that both of my dictators rolled ld6 at the start. This leaves me with only the mars as a decent carrier, as it is my flagship.
I actually won a raid last night. We were playing "the raiders" and I took and apocalypse, dominator and two dauntless light cruisers against four slaughters. Not technically a legal list as the dominator should be a reserve ship but we only figured that out afterwards and it is a campaign game anyway. I lost both dauntless but took out two slaughters and crippled another. The apocalypse managed to get a +5cm speed refit too, which is nice.
Anyway, I had never considered staying close to the edge in order to make fleeing easier, so thanks for that advice Vaaish. I think I need to break my 40k mentality, where the board edges can be very dangerous places to be.
At the moment I have 3 opponents and a few more on the horizon. I'm the only pure Imperial player by the looks of it.
Player A has an inquisition based fleet, with a fair amount of navy ships, a blackship and an Inquisitorial cruiser, plus a load of grey knights ships.
Player B is the experienced chaos player, he was the one who taught us how to play and has been playing longer than any of us. He likes slaughters and carnage class cruisers, with one or two desolators and devastators mixed in.
Player C uses the planet killer and a good mix of cruisers. The planet killer can be really annoying if it takes out ordnance. However, the main gun has been nicknamed "the shield-tickler" after some poor shooting.
Other than that there is a guy who plays Tau and a guy getting into space marines, possibly using the armageddon list although he may go pure.