Well, I only just got a Broadband Internet link, I normally have to fight a CPU with an IQ of about four... So I adapt tactics from that, mainly. A lot of the time, the best players can be thwarted by a semi-skilled, unpredictable as hell player, because tactics that no-one ever users are not defended against. and anyway, there are people with expensive fleets listed here, if you really think about it, my fleet is not unreasonable. And, its highly effective. Frigates are useless once the Capital Ships come out, and Capital Ships are useless once Super-Capital Ships come out. The Executor-Class Super Star Destroyer has exactly one weakness: Bombers. Tartans on them, SSDs on everything else.
BTW: This is dream fleets, after all, and a lot less than some people have used against a computer player...
"Why, Lieutenant, does Command insist on sending me stupid, stupid officers? I swear my blaster is overheating!"