in the middle of game, unfallen unleashing limitless manpower.(even build dreadnaught/mothership, only waste 1~2 turns to their manpower full.) also, big unfallen ships are expert of not dying.(maybe lack of weapons, but no matter of boarding time.) if your court formed full of unfallen heroes, through their racial hero skill's additional repair bonus, literally hard to kill.

unfallen fleet's manpower is always full even additional storage for troops, but your enemy is not. we finally found useage of surplus manpower. now we could got some 'pacifying' time

Dragar wrote:

Have you tried flak to shoot down the boarding pods?

use bombers and cluster missile for decoy. Boarding pod's projectile speed is slightly slow than ather things, pods keep aggro low.