Turn 0: The Aftermath

Stormer has just won a battle over his Home World, beating Freakazoids fleet of 10 with his own fleet of 12. Stormer's 7 remaining ships will take 2 turns to fully heal. Freakazoid has 2 attacks poised at Catdog and 2 sweepers in Freakazoid. Stormer has 1 Minesweeper and 5 attacks along with 1 full br mine at his home system. He has a br 1 cloaker waiting in Freakazoids Home World for just the right moment!

Turn 1: Threatening the HW

Freakazoid does not combine his fleet over Catdog, since he had only 4 ships to Stormer's 6 (moveable ships anyways.) He crashes his 2 attacks into Stormer's Home World , setting off the mine. Stormer moves out to Catdog with his 5 attacks and 1 sweeper while catdog builds 4 attacks to go along with his 2 sweepers at Freakazoid.

Freakazoid could build another 3 or 4 attacks next turn and destroy Stormer's fleet, however Freakazoid is confident he can move his fleet out to Catdog and build enough ships to defend his HW, while at the same time attacking Stormer. At least this is the pattern of every skirmish so far in this game. Stormer is counting on this for his plan to work.

Turn 2: Nuke or be nuked

Freakazoid responds as expected and moves his fleet of 6 ships out to Catdog and builds 4 attacks at Freakazoid. Stormer looses 2 attacks and now has 3 attacks and 1 minesweeper over Freakazoid's Home World, along with 1 cloaked br 1 cloaker.

Freakazoid now has what seems to be a perfect opportunity to get the nuke on Stormer. He can build 4 ships in one turn, and if Stormer is stupid enough to attempt the nuke, all 4 ships will be destroyed and Freakazoid will have enough ships over Stormer's Home World to nuke it.

The trap is baited and ready to spring.

Turn 3: Kaboom!

The plan works perfectly, Freakazoid is unaware that Stormer even has cloakers so he sends his 6 ships south into Stormer's Home World. If he had sent just one measly attack back to his HW, he would of foiled the nuke and probably nuked Stormer the following turn. Freakazoid builds 4 ships to protect his Home World, but the br 1 cloaker allows three of the ships to survive at a pitifully low br, and Stormer gets the nuke.

The moral of the story here, is do not make a habit of exchanging fleets with your enemy when he is over your homeworld or other important targets. A br 1 cloaker does not show up on the military rating and uses only 12 fuel and 6 minerals.The second lesson is to not be predictable, always do slightly different varations each battle, or you will soon have opponents guessing your next moves.