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Most epic, hard or awe-inspiring Sins battle you've ever played

Most epic, hard or awe-inspiring Sins battle you've ever played

What's your battle experience?

Okay, we all know Sins is a beastly game on its own, but you could probably make some money be recording your most epic battles (with AI or Human players) and then put it on youtube or something, or you could just record it and watch how much of a close call your precious fleet just had.  For example, in version 1.05 I was playing against this Hard, Aggresive TEC player, all I had ever seen of his fleet was his seige frigates popping out of a wormhole and bombing the crap out of my nearest Terran planet.  After about half an hour of push and pull between his like, 200 siege frigates lined up at the border and my, comparably small fleet (I'm and economist, so I hate to make less than 50+ credits per sec.)  I had finnaly built up my fleet to be the 4th largest in the game (which was a huge random map) I was still a noob back then, so the bulk of my fleet was Cobalts, LRM's and Hoshiko's(vs. waht I use now, Percherons, LRm's Hoshikos' and Garda's, still version 1.05) I decide to give him a taste of his own medicine and guided my fleet through the wormhole to his home system.  The nearest planet was just 2 phase jumps away, guarded by a plasma cloud( or whatever it is that cancels out abilities)  so, being the noob I was I led my fleet straight through it, and found a HUGE fleet waiting for me there he had at least 20 percherons, another 20 hoshiko's 13 Capital ships, teh Flagship the TDN Titunev, a level 8 Kol battleship, 35-40 LRM's and 50 Cobalts.  I ordered my fleet to attack, and unusually, so did teh AI

His fleet engaged my, now crippled ability less, smaller fleet.  I micro-managed my fleet(as always, I still do now) to focus fire on his flagship, he did the same to me, focusing his LRM fire on my flagship, the level 8 TDN Archronis(custom name) Sova class carrier.  His, somehow went down to 580 hull before my Archronis had any hull damage.  The Titunev went to flee, but was killed during phase jump initiation.  his fleet, apparently very ticked now, focused on my most vulnerable ship, the level 4(well, it was level four, it had advanced to 6 as the battle drug on) Sova Carrier, Lazulith.  She eventually had to retreat with some hoshikos to repair her whil she was waiting.  Eventually, all of their Cap. Shps were destroyed( I had a factory right on the other side of the wormhole, so I could replace my units lost) and they ran towards their closest planet.  My total losses were about 400 in fleet supply( I didn't keep track of what was lost) vs. his 580 lost in capital ships, and an unknown amount of frigates and cruisers.

 

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                        Koda0

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I had a solar system against an AI that pretty much got divided in half. I had Starbases on every planet and the AI did the same. Total Cold War. I built up a huge fleet and tried to sneak around but couldn't becuase I was using Distant Stars and did not want to waste a fleet trying to take out the Pirate Base. So I launched a diversion at the other end of the solar system (I had like 3 different fleets) and when their reinforcements showed up I pushed everything I had into the border planets. After about a half hour of furious fighting I broke their defences and swarmed into their undefended sectors. Their entire fleet wound up split into thirds. I crushed it. As I pushed past their defenses and torched their homeworld they gave up and surrendered.

 

Another time, (First time I ever played as the Advent) I got stuck with 5 planets, mostly dead asteroids, behind the pirate base. I didn't have enough technology at first to get past so I sacrificed my economy to build up a massive fleet. (Pirate base was the choke point into my territory only 1 way in). After fighting off numerous raids I launched an all-out attack on the base. I defeated it and pushed past them into the enemy. Needless to say, my built up forces ran over them. And I had the foresight to put a starbase and small fleet at the sun. So long for their counterattack plans.