Re:Ascendancy (Score 1)

I played Ascendancy for a while, but quit when I couldn't set the difficulty high enough to be a challenge. IIRC, the way to win was with fighters in the initial attack wave; they'd take out all the mobile units but get pretty chewed up doing it. The second wave was ships with good point defense and missiles; keep their missiles beaten down while you pound the hell out of their orbitals. Point defense would then let you sweep the mine belts and get to the planet.