to add some thoughts for Privateer commanders ... Privateers rely on Meteors as robber and combat vessel for freighters. Try to ruin his eco by shoting down / capture his freighters.
As said prepare your Meteors for Counter Minelaying and build some sweeping power ... use the Dwarf Star Transport (six beams and cloaking) or your Bloodfang Carrier (seven beams more mass to survive a mine hit, no cloak). Use Heavy Blaster or higher to sweep enough per round.
If you are forced to stop an attacking fleet, use cloak intercept on the Loki and kill them. May be a Bird ally could spend a pair of Resolutes for that task :) in other cases use a pair of Meteors to kill a Loki ... when you rob the rest of the fleet, the price to kill the Loki is fair :-)
Build a lot of Meteors - use 3-4 SB producing them ... build BR4 / BR5 only as freighter killer or detection units for Loki protected orbits (fly next to the warp wells cloaked, when a loki is in there, you got a message and can escape or hide in the warp well).
Build a lot of Sweeper - each and everybody will abundant minefields against a Privateer ... expect minefields between 10.000 - 15.000 units - you have to sweep these minefields in 2-3 turns to be effective and aggressive.
Last but not least ... group your Meteors to wolfpacks and tow your prey to the pack and rob them dry. You can dramatically improve your amount of fuel robed, when you use the lady royal trap ... means you have a fuelless lady next to your wolf pack. When the prey is in position, the lady got fuel for rob ship mission ... works also fine for other huge ships with beams ... like Virgos, Gorbies or Biocides ... a nightmare for all races :-)
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