I'm currently having a blast, finally, after a streak of bad games. I'm playing Morrigi on a 50-star Clusters map, against Humans and Zuul. Well, just humans now, hehe. With AI research and AI economy I've amassed a tidy fleet of 99 cruisers, and just kinda steamrolled the Zuul, being down to 52 in the end. Which were all outdated by then as well, with meson beams and pulse phasers becoming the new norm. I guess I hit a great spot of luck - a Peacekeeper arrived early on, in time to repel a pair of nasty Zuul attacks (that I could've handled anyway, but with far more effort), though it did stall once when a Zuul cruiser sneaked into its deadzone and stayed there until the round ended. Which resulted in the bloody thing hunting for my pack of cutting-edge battlecruisers, which I had to stuff into deep space so it wouldn't attack them. Also, neither the Zuul nor the Humans seem to have gotten point phasers or interceptors, which is just as well.
My goal right now is get the Dreadnaught COL, with Cracker rounds. From what I gathered, a single shot of that thing will spray out effing eighty mines! (twenty, times four COLs on the Morrigi 'naut) I just want to SEE that thing fire. If all else fails, several 'nauts volley-firing packs of 32 heavy drones won't be a bad sight either. Too bad my strategies fail horribly most of the time. I really like them drones.