Sins of a Solar Empire

[Meskalin]

Great game, a little bit to easy AI's, hard is a better normal and unfair a lower hard...

TEC
is too low, also at highter tech levels and with many capships you will need many command and repair cruisers, LRM or Garda frigates, ... thats it, maybe some cruiser-carriers, but not so important
->you WILL NEED thoose 3 capship classes: Kol, Sova, Dunov (Akkan could be build instead of every third Kol)
economics are slow at the beginning, you will need all terran-homeland upgrades and all mining upgrades...
...after that, just colonize Terran, Desert or Ice planets...
After the most important imperial research improve your ships fast, faster, GOD DAMN FAST

ADVENT
best shield tech, guardian and dominator vessels are the key to victory,
needed cap-ships: progenitor, halcion (instead of every third progenitor build one radience)
economics are on of the best, homeland-prophecy for terran and desert planets is most important, then also mining
Capships have low health, but with some intelligent research the armor-multiplcator could be incresed in an awesome rate

VASARI
some kind of not good balanced, good frigates, bad cruisers, you should try to buy more frigates as cruisers when playing vasari -> ZERG tactics work also in the end-phase of the game,
Kortul and the carrier (MANY Kortul)
economics are great if you have the vulcanic prophecy and control vulcanic planets...

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for all factions: first the main imperial research (2 or 3 imperial labs) and then full power on military research (5 to 6 military labs)

not every planet must be controlled, choose wisely,... asteroids are good for your ressource income and cheap to be setted up

dont forget to research the PROPAGANDA/BROADCAST as it could give yours ships extra boni also at enemy territory when your spreading propaganda has reached the enemys planet orbit

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YOU: VASARI
ENEMY1: TEC and TEC,
ENEMY2: ADVENT and ADVENT

(medium random map, locked teams)
you can win with only 2 vulcanic planets, 2 asteroids and your starting planet
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All in all a GREAT GAME, but you will need real players if you want real hard fights...

There are also some good mods out:

RealCombatMod - good for single- and multiplayer

UNITCAPMOD - good for multiplayer only
MaxCapCapacity (23 or 32)
MaxFleetSupply5000 or MaxFleetSupply10000
UpkeepDecrease (only 44% total upkeep)