[AgentZero]

In the stock game, it's all about speed. If you're using a Dreadnought against a baseship, all the DN needs is a couple weapons with longer range than the Baseship, and it can pummell it to rubble while neatly staying out of range. I tend to use Baseships as just that, Bases. I find they make great WP defenders because you can park them on top of the WP to keep enemy ships from coming through, while yours go through and invade his system, then your baseships can move out and sit over the next set of WPs.