Call this a rant if you will but the pirates, honestly 30+ armour on the coursairs the same amount on the gauss turrets. which make them just about a starbase with as close as they are to eachother. I thought the Pirates were supposed to be a thorn in your side not a major galaxy super power. I have been able to wipe a map clean of my enemies with less ships than defending against these guys! Not that these are really problems in a game just a huge over spend in your super economy that surrounds your enemies, just when you finally decide to wipe them out in previous entrenchment games they fell with one large fleet, not six huge fleets per base! Does anyone know how to tone down their armour?

P.S You "ARE" supposed to be able to stop them early on in a game right?

This is after the patch work!!!