This was the first game I ever got, it was a Christman present fom my dad back in 1995, 3 days after my first computer - I LOVED IT and played it a lot for a year or so.....
However, I remember 2 things that made the game kind of sick due to being "imbalanced" if used vs the Computer:
1.) Brunswik Dissipator, an equipment for your ships that empties an enemy ship for 1 turn with a single shot - use it as first thing in your turn in a 1 vs 1 situation, afterwards kill it as slowly as you want
2.) Room-Bomb or Spacebomb (I played german version back then), another equipment that can only be used once but deals a lot of damage to each enemy ship in the system - 5 or 6 of these always kill the complete enemy fleet of 25+ ships if you let the game last that long, while you never even lose one yourself
Once I realized that, there was no motivation left :-(
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