We played a very cool game tonight. After setting the game up in #sins on irc.stardock.com, we had a very interesting 2v2. It was TEC  and Vasari vs TEC and Advent (I think [Ray]Therlun went random). Basically the game turned into two 1v1s with a minimum amount of resource trading between the players.

On the "left" side of the map, I fought tomet. I tried to do a decent expansion game while building up a fleet of assailants and tomet fast teched to Kodiaks, almost kicking my ass in the process. The rest of the game between the two of us turned into a very interesting back and forth game of counter, counter-counter, and counter-counter-counter. Very enjoyable!

On the other side of the map, Offenbarungsjoe fought [Ray]Therlun over a desert planet. Essentially, Offenbarungsjoe microed his ass off, pulling off a few almost impossible things (like winning with LRMs against an almost equal number of Destra Crusaders), but when Therlun had the better economy on top of out teching Offenbarungsjoe, it became a bitter struggle for survival.

I'll try not to spoil the game, just let me say: I had a LOT of fun playing this. This was my first game against really good opponents, and my brain was in overdrive almost all of the time. I'm looking forward to a lot more intense games like this.

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