OT: Killer weapons in games rant

[Taera]

Im playing that imperium galactica game... what is the fun in giving a part of the players weapons that kill anything in one shot? i dont get it - no matter how good you research, design, play and control your race, with one shot its all over. what frustrated me - i WAS eventually winning. yes i was! after month of hard trying i finally tipped the scales to my favor. What the enemy comes up with? a weapon that has long range, always hits, kills whatever it hits in one shot and does damage to all around it (three or four of these are enough to kill anything around the four targets they hit). brings me back to Talisman and AS, or even better - Talisman + AS in SE. what is the point of these weapons? they seem to be game-killers. Just build a destroyer - arm it with AS, put a talisman, and a warp gun probably if it misses. And your high-tech dreadnought is nothing. Yes i know, the master computer. but its EXPENSIVE! in a fast-paced PBW game where you're locked up in relatively small space you simply cannot afford it. but thats SE, in SE there are at least CHANCES and COUNTERS and whatnot.

Ive seen it in many other games too...
well im done, lol, just someone explain me - why publishers keep putting such things into games? whats the fun of it??