how to defend your empire?

i use a stack of chemical damage a stack of defence ships a stack of attack ships and a small group of ships that pretty much can`t be beat and what ever random ships you want to put in at the bottom to fill up the ship numbers that you can use works pretty well for me, i can attack with it to keep the enemy fleet attacking the really tough ships while the group of attack ships pick them off and what they cant chemical damage should take care of usually

coming from the guy who cant keep his UWs in order ;)

you don`t defend it. well, you could, but it costs less to grab more planets than you can lose (3 is the max there).
of course in high pr there are less targets and it`s getting tricky - you start to defend if only to have something to attack on the morrow with.

Do what I do. Sit in a rocking chair, on the porch of your empire. With a shotgun.

Never fails.

mmm don`t play high too fast. learn how to play low. stack up tons of money. and then hit the millions ;)

yo dont need a really powerfull fleet you just have to stack better you could be 2 million pr below someone and still when if you have a good stack and they dont