Increased manpower effect on fleets

Rather than a fixed bonus I suggest the bonuses become connected with manpower upgrades, composition and technologies.

This can unlock another depth to ground battle compositions.

For now I feel that flotilla crew killing equipment is close to irrelevant.

You mean something besides , "ugh let's go 100% tanks again for next 50 turns..." ? Maybe. :-D

Now let's have a look from other perspective of the not so manpower heavy player, I have UE with ship hp law invading me, those are very sweet strong stategic heavy pieces there, not perfect but really hard to break.

I am unfallen, been a silly happy hippy and only slowly catching up with the military tech, I however am superior in industry and can dish out over 100 ships a turn (needing 15 000- manpower a turn to fill them) problem is, there are nowhere near enough strategics in the galaxy, so I am forced into making cheap throwaway ships to throw at him in hopes of breaking the tank, it works, slowly and tediously, but it does. I can never match up to his fleet manpower wise.

I would never have this problem in ES1 obviously, but I guess we are way past that.

In the end I won, simply by slowing him down and clicking eco turns away, but 

Who is in the right then?

UE player who created one guardian enhanced unbrekable deathball and should get additional bonuses, cause it's filled with manpower?

Or Unfallen player who struggles and is slowly catching up with the tech but unable to use most of it cause the strategic AND manpower drain is overwhelming to the needs?