I know, but my friends like it, so I guess that's how we're going to play it. For now at least
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He actually had both the 1 escort and a commander. The security orbital was paid for by the 2d6*10pts spent on planetary defenses though.
However! I fought another game last night, 2300pts of planetary assault. I brought all the ships I had at my disposal + a space station and an orbital dock. He used something like 2 Explorers, 2 Custodians, 4 Heros, 6 Wardens, 10 transports and perhaps something else I don't really remember. But this time I really crushed him
.. I lost 1 Dauntless, 1 Cobra and 1 Sword and I also had to disengage my Retribution, but in return I destroyed each and every one of his ships except for 1 crippled and disengaged Explorer and 1 Custodian and prevented him from reaching the planet to score any planetary assault points. The extra LBs provided by the mission really helped me to minimise the damaged he could cause and as soon as I got in close it was a very one sided fight. And the Mars and the Dominion proved invaluable this game! Together they crippled one Custodian and one Explorer, destroyed another Custodian and one Hero and finally forced the second Explorer to disengage. 2 Nova cannons work great together! The Retribution didn't perform at all though, but she was a huge fire magnet (a very unlucky one unfortunately) and my escorts/light cruisers ought be thankful for her actions in soaking up the Tau torpedoes!
Now I'm looking forward to get some more games in this summer and hopefully we will be able to play a full scale campaign soon and perhaps write some battle reports to post here later!
