the BC art of war

1: attacking is better when planed, ie. attacking for effect, the idea is to make the enemy spend more that you do.

2: first strat. banker raiding, pretty simple send out 10 attacks to ten planets split your fleet up accordingly, typical success is 65%.
of those planets you win, you will first clear the planet of all structures, then ("for example" if you get lets say 7 of them, make 2 a laser trap and leave the fleet on them plus one more and the other 4 planets you recall the fleet and send out more attacks.
the effect of this strat is that the person will send to retake the planets, so he will fail the first attempts because he expects you to recall all of your fleets, and he will then have send more fleets, meaning he just paid twice for the attacks "costing him more than you".
if the lasers get in to place then set up a portal.
and the rest of this strat is pretty basic clean a system once (not attacking the same planet twice) and move to the next system. DO NOT DO RETAKES ON PLANETS YOU HAVE RAIDED IT'S A WASTE OF MONEY

3: second strat. clearing cores, always do PI on the planet before attacking and infiltrate the person if possible, these are to be executed with extreme prejudice, so send a large fleet if it is an aggressor to you family.

4: third strat clearing enemy jump points, this is a tricky one, first of all you have to do a sab portal on a few planets closer to their home this will get him to station fleet and there by lowering the amount of fleet defending a portal, then you attack the target planet, but don't forget to send fleet to the others that you sab'ed after you clear the jump point.

5: fourth strat. attacking for spread... it is not wise to attack for spread, but if you do it, this is the best way, first attack with a large amount of droids that you can spare for at least the time it will take you to build lasers, and build a lot of them i suggest a full build, once the lasers are built recall half of the fleet stationed and build a portal.
once the portal is complete clear the system of any aggressor, but leave those not aggressive towards you alone this will work in your favor later.

6: fifth strat. attacking attackers, the best way is to get a share with them or a one tick attack point.
first thing is you run fighters and bombers till you see no lasers, and then fighters till you are only losing 1 to his 10
then send fighters and trannies with say 100k droids a, as you see the number of losses then you adjust your amount of droids to get to where you are losing the same/or less than he is... this way you won't take the planet and you will wipe him clean of droids, remember to lower the amount of droids each time you hit him the idea is to run him out of droids, not take the planet yet.
once you get to the ground running stage you should have family members... even bankers sending to his planets for a major sweep of this attacker.
the result of this attack strat usually ends with them deleting.