Gate defence

Gate defence will always be decided by the rules that you are using for 
whatever game you are playing. In starfire, you need to have a
functioning 
drive field (which precludes the use of mass bombardments or sending 
fighters/missiles through unaided, you need to use a ship to deliver the

weapons). Whenever I played a wormhole type game, using FT as the rules,
I 
had the very simple rule that a ship to use a wormhole/jumppoint had to
have 
a functioning FTL drive and a thrust of at least 1. This meant that any 
defending fortification had a 10% mass bonus immidieatly. If you also
put a 
limit on the velocity of anything comming through, you can use the FT
mine 
rules as well. This makes any attacking force have to be larger mass and

points wise that the defender, meaning while you are smashing away at
his 
fixed fortifications, where are the extra points/mass that you had to
bring 
that he did not have to use? (probably sneaking around and attacking
your 
planets).

BIF