SEV early game battle strategy vs. SEIV

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I agree that any ship should be able to hit a planet but the real question is can it hit a dug in and camouflaged gun emplacement or missile battery. Remember how hard it was to take out a few Scuds in the desert. They used basic camouflage techniques like nets and buildings against the best satellite imagery, IR detection and millimeter wave radars. Not quite as easy as just hitting the Earth. I don't know how to implement in the game but the real issue is detection. Once a static emplacement is detected it should be fairly easy to hit, baring ECM or other targeting disruption. This should give at least the first shot to the WPs

In general military terms it takes a minimum 3x advantage to take on a dug in enemy and that ratio will result in significant casualties on the attacking side. I am assuming that any militarily competent race will dig in, harden and hide it's WPs.

Basically I think that defenses in SEV are too weak. This was a problem when SEIV first came out as well and was later corrected for the most part.

TM