[Lighthorse]

Actually... the ancients could (individually) easily take on about a dozen younger races without breaking a sweat. At least, for the first 400 turns or so of a game. Maybe, just maybe, the younger races could catch up by that time. Not likely, but possible.

I agreed with Fyron, play neither the Vorlon or the Shadow and you run over all the other races. Each race resistance would be like a speed bump for the ancient ones.
Thus the ancient ones need to be handicap by some means or only allow the them to be control/played by the AI. That way they won't focus on a single player at a time, before moving on to the next race. The Last game both ancient races were played by Fyron and SJ. They did an excellent performance by role playing the ancients races. Other races stay out of they way and war among themselves. Fun game. maybe Fyron and SJ would be interested in a repeat performance?

Lighthorse