Lol.  My game with him (which I think was actually his first game of Rebellion) was hilarious and still very impressive.  My ally was a noob that knew how to expand and build units, but not counters or how to fight so throughout the entire game, I was feeding him and coaching him how to beat back the massive waves of units Amish was throwing at him without even knowing what damageTypes things were.

It really was quite impressive to watch though..  A guy that's so good at previous installments that despite having not played with the new stuff which counters the old stuff still does incredibly well.  The only reason we beat him was because I caused his ally to ragequit when he brought his Vorastra within range of my Orky and Phase Missile Turret (I love that thing's passive) and the fact that I was ultimately able to redirect forces before my ally fell.  It was close though..  When I finally managed to get over to my ally, he was on his last planet before his homeworld and losing.

Good game but wouldn't have been nearly so far in our favor if his ally hadn't quit and if Amish had actually played Rebellion prior to that.

I wish I had a record of that game...

use the discord or corsev.  both have decent "crowd control" abilities.  the discord is a perfect combo with flak becuase it's fracture ability not only removes armor for a good duration on enemy ships for a low AM cost, it's other abilities do more damage when a group is affected with fracture.

The issue isn't the DPS or damage tables...it's the speed...I think you know that though...

LRFs have a big range advantage over LFs, so they could still get them into range. Corvettes also have their crazy attack pattern, while LFs have to be a little still to fire. :/

I just downloaded this replay and can't wait to watch. I've only played against Amish a few times years back, so it's great to see him again!

I take it this was a vasari-banned game?  And then to cap it off, nobody picks the TEC or Advent loyalists.  Rather funny.

I'm fairly noob and have been wanting to switch from TEC Rebel to Advent, so thanks for this replay. Here are my notes from watching the replay. Obviously I know that different situations call for different builds, but I have no idea what counters what just yet so this will be a good starting point for me until I can learn the game a bit better.

start build:
build 2x seeker vessels
build 1x temple of hostility
build prog mom
scuttle capital ship facility
build disciples (and get supply upgrade)
research vespa corvette
build vespa corvettes @10 disciples

later:
research defense vessel @ 22 mins
research shields @ 23 mins
cap ship facility rebuild @ 30~ mins
second cap = rev battlecruiser
5~ purge vessels to siege planets
research protection of the unity @ 40~ mins
trade ports @ 44~ mins
titan research @ 1 hour~
in the extreme lategame upgrade econ, max populations, max allegiances, etc

notes:
- forward frig factories for assaults
- temple of communion if enemies spread culture, and destroy theirs
- focus enemy frig factory on homeworld assaults
- repair platforms for forward attacks
- if there are free planets in the mid-late game then take them with missionary vessels and corvs
- build more frig factories later in the game, try to keep resources as low as possible (macro up s0n)
- for team games get overtures to feed allies
- take advantage of wormholes
- late game unit comp = vespas, defense vessels & small amountof disciples

prog build: colonise -> shield regen -> shield regen -> colonise -> shield regen
rev bc build: reverie -> clairvoy -> reverie -> clairvoy -> guidance
titan build: chastic blast -> ?

Like I said, I'm pretty bad at the game so I'm probably reading things wrong and I don't fully understand the reasoning behind everything, but this is what I could deduce. If anything is wrong feel free to correct me

There is a folder called "Record-Multiplayer" that's in the My Documents/My Games location part of Sins...put it in there....

IIRC, once you have Sins running you will need to go to singleplayer, then watch...you may have to change the location (buttons near the bottom middle) so that it shows the multiplayer replays...