Here's a long replay of a 1v1v1 on Regular vanilla Sins.  So for everyone who's been asking for one, this is it.  Unfortunately it's not a pro game since the other two players were newish.  See if you can figure out which player I was.

It's kind of embarrassing since I had a hard time taking out a new player, but I had a relatively crappy starting spot and he got to build up (or should have) while I was taking down the other guy.  The end result was a long game with two fronts.  I just could not get a good eco up on this map since our ships were dancing around bombing one another in the back.  I eventually won the game with a culture bombing which my opponent didn't seem to know how to counter.  Perhaps he was too focused on fleeting and not enough on culture and eco, resulting in a large fleet but a high tax without an eco to back it up.  He also didn't seem to upgrade his planet populations beyond the minimum based on the end-of-game stats.  (Or maybe it's just that I had bombed out most of his planets and that it was taking a while for the populations to recover.)  I'd say this game is a good example of the power of culture when used against someone who doesn't understand it.

I guess I am a little embarrassed since I couldn't knock the last guy out quickly, but the writing was on the wall.  I had the eco and just needed to fleet up more and would have won via a battle of attrition had he not declared me to be a lame player and then quit.  (By attrition I mean, the loss of one of his ships would hurt him far more than the loss of one of mine would hurt me.)  My other problem was that I never formed a proper battle ball since my caps were out bombing in the back.

Epic 1v1v1 on Regular Sins