I was just about to put a hurting on the strongest of my last two opponents in a game. All of a sudden there's a prison riot and the prisoners escape in a ship and run riot in three very powerful ships. The ships are 350 offense/280 defense. It takes the best ships of my entire force I've built up to defeat them. My computer opponents take this oppurtunity to rebuild and retool their ships.

Later I send three Dreadnaughts to a planet to destroy its orbiting space fleet. WHICH IS A SINGLE UNARMED DEFENDER. I defeat it but it takes out one of my Dreads. How does an unarmed ship kill a Dreadnaught?

I'm playing on a medium map on normal I can't imagine the dirty tricks the comp gets up to on the higher difficulties. I think I'm going to reinstall Norton's to punish it.