Honestly, not sure if I'm going to keep this up all the way through. It's a long ass game even on a medium galaxy and even with screenshots it's hard to show what you're doing strategically.
But we will see.
I'm starting a new campaign today and lets see how I do.
I'm a pretty good player all things considered but on tough...well..they're not lying. It's not an easy game.
I like using a custom race so I can decide on every aspect of the race I'm going to play before hand.
Here are the galaxy settings for this campaign. Just going to be playing on a medium size galaxy here:
Here is the brief overview of the stats for the race I've chosen:
And here is my opponents screen for the campaign:
I'm lucky with a good starting position on the edge of the map. And it looks like there is a decent star density close to my homeworld so I should have some good colonization options and be able to keep my empire somewhat contained which is how I like to play.

Setting up my homeworld:
I've rushed production on a factory to get on my feet and have balanced other buildings across the planet and set the specialization of the planet to social:

And now on to the campaign!
But we will see.
I'm starting a new campaign today and lets see how I do.
I'm a pretty good player all things considered but on tough...well..they're not lying. It's not an easy game.
I like using a custom race so I can decide on every aspect of the race I'm going to play before hand.
Here are the galaxy settings for this campaign. Just going to be playing on a medium size galaxy here:
Here is the brief overview of the stats for the race I've chosen:
And here is my opponents screen for the campaign:
I'm lucky with a good starting position on the edge of the map. And it looks like there is a decent star density close to my homeworld so I should have some good colonization options and be able to keep my empire somewhat contained which is how I like to play.
Setting up my homeworld:
I've rushed production on a factory to get on my feet and have balanced other buildings across the planet and set the specialization of the planet to social:
And now on to the campaign!