Ok, I went to bed right after the game ended, but I thought you might want more post-game analysis.
Here's the map...
I started in A and Goz started in B. We met fairly early and I expanded into D while Goz controlled C.
Once the heavy fighting started I took the worst of it at first. Then the tide turned and I took out his main fleet and pressed on and drove him out of his homesystem and most of B. About the time I thought I had him beat, he counterattacked down south and wiped out my entire southren fleet. He drove me completely out of D and almost got my homesystem. My survivng main fleets were out of position north and west and could do nothing but distract him.
At that point I accelerated my occupying his colonies, going for the mineral rich planets and leaving the rest to him in the hopes of starving his military. His attack into my homesystem didn't come as soon as I expected. If it had the game likely would have been over for me. I suspect, but won't know without asking him, that his fleet got held up for lack of supplies. hatever the reason it gave me time to throw up some defenses and when he finally attacked my homesystem I was able to catch him at the warp point and wipe out his fleet completely.
Almost at the same time I caught another of his fleets at a warp point trying to drive in the south east corner of my territory. Another desperate warp point defense on my part.
The combiation of losing those two fleets pretty much ended any chance he had, especially considering my northern fleet had by this time made it around the western side and was soming at his remaining colonies in D.
He held out for a time, Probably thinking he could assemble a large enough fleet and slip them past my front line and take out some undefended colonies. I caught his Last fleet at the assembly point though before they could move out and he conceeded.
Great game. I am rady for my next opponent Asmala.
Geoschmo