Well I guess planetary shield works in both mode. Simply it absorbed all or a part of damage from bombardment in both mode. I personally checked it and I am almost sure about it.
The main point in using swarm is that you can gather them pretty fast and it is really very effective.
For using the missle instead of beam, I have to say it fits with most of the situations, excpet if the enemy's ships has very good defence against missle, like high ECM and especially if is armed with zyro or lighting shiled which can not be obtained in early game. So with my experience the missle are the best in statring and mid game, but obviously you can have much more better beam or stream in the end game. I have to say that one of nice point about this game that you always have to take care about ship design of your enemy to could design a good ships for defence or attack.
I almost played with all espices but my favourit one is Psilon. Mainly because they get most part of tech and they do research much faster. Bigger brain is always better than bigger body, but its effect appear in long range so you have to be patient for a while.
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