The biggest problem I find, is that people fail to plan sufficiently in advance. I tend to plan ~5yrs in advance, so that I have forces and facilities available in advance to meet future responsibilities. It is no pain to take 3yrs to build a Destroyer squadron, if you have it finished before it is needed.



Currently, I have 3 Destroyer Squadrons, made up of 1 DL, 3 DEs, and 4 DDGs. This will shortly morph into 4 Desrons that lose a DDG in favor of an FSV, as I need to begin to base these ships farther out, as I am now colonizing planets 6 jumps out from Earth. In preparation for that move, Earth is producing ordinance and maintenance facilities for transport to the new Fleet Bases, each of which will have 2 DesRons on a rotating basis, with Sol sector covered by 2x 61kton BBs and 4x 25kton Light Cruisers. Once the outer fleet bases are complete, the LCs will move in pairs to those bases, to backstop the DesRons as response forces. Each Fleetbase, in lieu of shipyards, will build a single Drydock, capable of docking up to 40ktons of shipping.



Current missile stockpiles are low enough that the AMT design has not entered production, as I doubt I could fill it due to constant run-ins with spoilers.