The fact that I haven't entered the beta aside (stupid bank account doesn't like paypal), unless balance and flow got drastically changed, games shouldn't have hours of back-and-forth like that.  Also, capitals generally don't get that high, especially Kols.  Sure, they're nigh indestructible, but they really just defeat SC and things without shields.  Now, once they reach lvl 6, they do start to become persistent little things that just won't die.  Of course, they are also such AM hogs that they won't function well without AM support.

Also, why'd you need the Protev if you had an Akkan?  Did the Akkan already have it's AM depleted from using it's ion cannon or did you just not give it the ability to colonize when upgrading?

I'm confused as to why you used a Sova against someone with that many Kols..  Sovas can put out missile batteries in small numbers, but against multiple Kols (typically two is enough provided they have AM support), any amount of SC is worthless, not to mention that missile batteries only have hull so they can get ripped apart by the GRG more easily than other things.

Why did he allow you to get two starbases up?  From the sounds of it, they were in the same general area as the battle, so some simple focused fire during construction could have solved that.  The battle was going in his favor you say.  What stopped this?

Oh, and when you got two starbases up plus your titan, why did he bother trying to keep fighting.

He had more resources than you.  In a war of attrition like that (even though it shouldn't have taken nearly that long), the one with the better economy (and in general, the most worlds) wins unless they can't fight.  He could have beaten you (unless I'm missing something) by simply keeping the pressure up on your world.  Also, because of his massed Kols and your lack of flak, he could have bomber-spammed your fleet to oblivion.

Now, I could be missing something as perhaps the new researchables for Rebellion change balance, but from what I can tell, he just played poorly and this has nothing to do with it being a spectacular strategy.

or using is Akkan to cast armistis then the Red Button works fine too.

Yeayh well I am trying to lure the AI's Turtler Titan in my TWIN red button station with the armistis akkan but it's turtling it's own planet...

I'll try to hot drop a overirde protocol, maybe that will do it!

applies to capital ships too

First off, my Sova stayed at my 2 star bases with 5 bomber sqadrons, deploying missile platforms in range and 2, my Akkan was locked in battle and was running low on antimatter.

There were no wormholes in my area and there were around 5 approach points... So it wasn't hard to heavily fortify them.

And in terms of the lack of flak on his side, his 4 KOL all had flak burst and his Titan had well, it's flak cannons. My strike craft certainly had a hard time that's for sure

First thing to work out: use the edit button.

I think Sins is appealing for so many different people because a game can be finished in an hour or two, which is nice for the adrenaline multiplayer junkies, but also in more than ten hours on large maps, which is also a good thing because some folks like to just take it easy and expand slowly. This is what makes this game so strong.

preety sure red button does 75% damage to caps and titans...(?)

and then there is shield mitigation and armor.