Interesting game. Thanks for posting it. I certainly learned a few things.

I found it to have several interesting sub-dramas in it.

I thought Star's use of the 'pause' from Slow Motion's attack was brilliant (he used it to colonize three worlds, while using his feed to build illums on his HW) and his use of micro-managed repulse to stifle the flak defense was also very impressive (let alone taking down to SBs in one grav well later). I wonder if SlowMotion really detested that dead asteroid between them. Not scouting the roid and Star's HW cost SlowMotion valuable time imo.

If you check the 1:00 hour mark Auqia had a ridiculous credit, metal, and crystal rating. I wish I could do even a fraction of his expansion routine. As I stated in another (now defunct thread) I think Auqia could make duct tape and a ball of lint into a good opening lead. But then the pressure from KLM and the near annhilation of Dwish forced him fleet up and though KLM was terminated eventually, the three fleets of Star, Serak, and Kreyfey were simply too much at the end.

The one conflict that perplexed me was Kreyfey vs orange. Orange went 5 mil labs early and got blitzed. Kreyfey snuffed the kodiak build with a triple sova rush (I assume embargoing all the way) that must have been a huge feed drain on Auqia and Itchy. By grabbing the roid from orange so quickly, it was a slow grind on orange's HW until Kreyfey went with Lfs and cut down the hoshikos. Having 5 mil labs and 1 frigate factory spelled doom imo.

Quite an epic match

Oh, yeah.  That guy would have been King of Kings.  He's famous for rushing to Kodiaks ASAP.  He's been doing that for ages.

Too many things going on for a casual player like me to keep up with @__@