Hello all,
Recently I started playing sins again after a 6 month break so I decided to play an SP game on a random large map with max players slots HARD AI. First off my starting position was really bad relative to my neighbors since I only got 4 dinky asteroids and dwarfs with my capital fully exposed to the enemy with only a junkyard planet separating it and the enemy position and the all of them were advent with good nearby planets. Suffice to say all 3 allied with each other since I was TL and forced me to defend a 4 planet front with a small eco while getting culture bombed.
It took me 4 hours to scratch up a decent fleet large enough to tackle the smallest advent ai while they continued to nail me with hundred ship fleets supported by a titan. After another 3 hours of fighting I was able to double my planet count and finally got a trade route going for me. Things were still bad however since it I just took down the smallest advent AI that was beside me and both advent AI's are allied with each other and still surrounds me while trying to culture bomb me. Suffice to say it took me 5 hours to finally beat the largest of the 2 advent players since apparently they decided to spam SB's on every planet and go full social.
Now on to my current conundrum of my 18th hour of gameplay. I'm now the largest empire in the system spanning 35 planets with the largest income and defense(4th in terms of fleet strength). Thing is my ally is just a 3 planet VR AI and I finally encountered the strongest AI which is a TR allied with 2 smaller TR all of which have level 10 titans. My neighboring single AL neighbor that has tortured me for the past 18 hours and have destroyed more than 20 starbase of mine on the same asteroid now serve as a buffer state so that the 2nd TR has someone else to fight. While I as finishing up the VL AI the 3 TR AI and the single advent AI decided to attack me on 4 different places at the same time there 3of them are important places. I managed to take down the advent fleet with the help of my SB while loosing over 1200 fleet supply of LF's and loosing yet my 2 SB's to starfishes over the course of an hour(I was able to keep LF spam from nearby planets up until the titan died) but the 2 of the 3 TR offensive threatens to split me in two. The largest of the TR managed to take my desert planet that I use to as a cultural hub for the area and also connects to 3 planets that are part of my trade chain (by the time I sent a scout he already has an SB on it but not yet colonized).
The second TR has secured the wormhole in the middle of my empire which I fortified with dual SB's and is gathering a large fleet with around 30 orgovs to try and take my ice planet which is fully fortified and makes around 5 metal and crystal from refineries alone. The 3rd TR I intercepted with my main fleet and I've mostly wiped him off the map and allowed me to finally have a secure phase lane with my VR ally but my main fleet is kinda stranded since the largest TR decided to block me on every planet while I hammer his thousand strong fleet supply armada(he has around 3 mil credits in savings and 500k in minerals) on every planet I jump to whether it belongs to me or his he sends a large fleet to meet up with my main fleet.
By my estimate the largest AI will colonize the desert planet he captured and fully fortify(max mines, hangars, turrets, etc.) by the time my main fleet arrives and I will still have to deal with the other TR massing to attack an important ice planet which is several jumps away. Now I'm thinking of how I should approach this problem?
