Alright, I got Sins for my b-day and I have to say that it has been a very difficult journey trying to find a good opening strategy. But even with that little downside, I LOVE THIS GAME! (I have figured out a good opener) Anyhoo, here is my question, once the game has been going on for a while and you and the cpu have built up real nice size fleets with capital ships on both sides and both the fleets are now staring each other down, how do you go about the fight?

Here is the thing, what I did in my first game once I got into that big battle between my big fleet and the cpu's big fleet was that I had all my units target the capital ships to get them out of the way. That's how the battle pretty much went along. My entire fleet attacking the same targets until the enemy fleet was wiped out. Now I know that joint fire is a very reasonable strategy, but I felt kinda cheap just having my entire fleet attack the same units and rip them apart one by one. I mean, with fleets that size, you kinda want to watch the fight instead of focusing on which next enemy to direct your fleet to. In real combat, not every battle is fought using joint fire attacks. Joint fire is done with small groups, but not entire armies hitting the exact same target.

Do you just focus your capital ships on taking out the cpu's capital ships, joint firing only your capital ships and letting the rest of the fleet attack whatever it wants to? or do you just sit back and direct the flagship? I mainly want to know if you all do things differently and figure out for myself which way works the best and gives you the best show.