Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-90.207.59.12-20140119170005/@comment-5864931-20140120103157

Peacemaker is an appauling mortar and shouldn't be used. Get salv hitting and find Shock L. You should have missile defence as the highest with some ballistic defence too.

To take down a 40 you should look at coming in from the 10-11 O'Clock position, you will be rushed by 4 BC ships, 2 with missiles and 2 with ballistic. Once you kill them, head towards the bottom of the base and destroy the four turrets. Then move close to the wall and you can take out the torp tower and the 4 turrets on the other side of the game (the torp will not fire at you from here).

Once you kill them, go into the base but don't stop, you want to ensure you have "shift-clicked" the mortar so once in range your fleets will target that turret. Once thats dead, simply work your way clockwise around the inside of the base picking off turrets as you go. Doing it this way the torpedo turrets will never fire and you don't need to stop meaning the mortars should never hit you either.

Hope this helps.