best tactic me and my mp m8 had was:
first wave fake DE/ with few k harpys and 1 DE ship
second wave fake BS/with DE count of BS +1 bs so it looks like BS fleet and as we was pretty bigie that was unstopable one guy was so pissed (1up) he organised whole chase on us just cos of that single attack we dryed like 16 def fleets for first wave ((as there was about 9k DE(harpys)) and 2nd pretty much same he got like 20 DEF fleets or so ((there was about 7k BS(all DE))so we recalled harpys on eta1 and landed with 2nd wave lost zero ships got ~1900 roids, there was only few targs we didin't land on as they had pulsars/ghosts for both wave and that was shitloads
counter: send all u can send