Ok, I just played a three-and-a-half hour game of SoaSE. Three versus Three in a Random Large Multi System. It gets to the point where I have around 21 planets, my Advent ally with 17 and my Vasari with 19. The enemy team, all together (we estimated from recent atacks) had only around 7 planets.

We all create Assault Fleets (Each containing 6-9 caps and at least 100 other ships) which was jsut under half our ship armada. We attack the very last enemy planet, where the remains of all the fleets were waiting for the inevitable attack.

I had two Kols, an Akkan, Two Marzas, a Dunov and a Sova. My Advent ally (who had only 6 caps in his fleet) was three Radiances, one Halcyon, one Revelation and one Rapture.

My Vasari friend (who had nine caps) had two Kortuls, a two Space Eggs, two Skirantas, one Antorak Marauder and two Vulkoras Desolators.

We estimated (from all caps we encuontered earlier) were

Enemy 1: One Radiance, one Progenitor

Enemy 2: Two Radiances, one Revelation

Enemy 3: One Kol, One Sova

We seriously outnumbered them four to one in this battle.

We all arrived at the planet. We knew it was the final fight. Hunting the Hunted (more advents on the other team).

We had all agreed with objectives to each other. My objective was to take down enemy frigates and cruisers, my Advent Ally was to destroy any Caps and insignificant structures (Factories, Labs, etc:.) while my Vasari ally destroyed important structures (tactical structures, Nova/Deliverance weapons)

I moved in to the east side of the planet and annihilated the Sova, along with several Illums and LRM's with Kodiak Escort. My Advent ally destroyed two Radiances (one each enemy player) and annihilated all minor structures.

My Vasari ally destroyed a nearby Nova (which was finished just seconds before we attacked). We pondered it, because while the remains of their fleets fought desperately to fend off our fleets, they could've used it against a couple of our planets (the final battle was just under twenty minutes).

In the end, we prevailed from the counter-attack with extrmely minimal loses. I lost one LRM, two Cobalts and a Kodiak (I sometimes use them as Meat Shields, lol). The Advent player on my team lost two Illums and a Aeria Drone host. Surprisingly, the Vasari ally only had a badly-damaged Destructor (Vasari Planet Bombers).

So, I want to know two things:

1) Have you ever had battles/games like this one? if so, how long?

2) If you had a number 1 above, how many ships were in your fleet?

Thanks. Truly, the game was real fun