using only relatively slow-firing beam weapons and absolutely impeccable timing, I managed to destroy a swarm queen at 411 shields in 3 salvos (I had picked at it with torpedo fire first). My fleet is built around massive batteries of slow-firing beam weapons, many of them plasma carronades, so this required jumping in to within 10,000 km of the villainess, the most impressive thing about this feat was that it was done without giving the abomination a chance to shoot at all. My first two shots were fired JUST out of range, with Turbolaser fire, which stripped the shields away to nothing, then I punched up the fleet speed to the max and charged, firing plasma carronades full blast, and some remaining lasers. This disabled all its weapons and the creature resorted to ramming ineffectually. I'd post a text file if I could figure out how to generate one.
