I'm currently playing my first gigantic game and it's a eye-opener. Generally, I have the game wrapped up by the time I get Dreadnoughts. I moved down a level of difficulty to Tough (only leaving the Yor at Intelligent) and I'm getting a pretty good run for my money. Everyone ended up with 40+ systems except for the Yor who mangaged to grab 4 systems (The Alexians got 3 in comparison and much better systems at that). Anyway, it's been a lot of fun. Never seen warfare on this scale and the...