Ah. Ma. Gawd. PA is awesome. Played a 57 minute match today, and barely took the W. For about 30 of those 57 minutes there was a pretty even back and forth naval and orbital tug-o-war. I was finally able to take orbit, and I started cranking out Orbital Anchors (a space station in synchronous-orbit that blasts the surface). My anchors weakened their navy enough to allow me to build up mine, and park it near their coastline. While my battle ships and frigates beat their base like a drum, I decided to move my Commander off world to start a moon base. While my commander was en-route my navy found and targeted the enemy commander. Boom, Game over, I win. But the enemy had already built Halley V engines on one of the moons, and initiated the burn seconds before their commander died. They dropped one of the planet's moons on my main base. An intense game with a narrow victory.
My navy having wiped out most of the base targets the enemy commander (center of pic) http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o149/loaded321/Planetary%20Annihilation/th_PA3.jpg
Halley V engines ignite. http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o149/loaded321/Planetary%20Annihilation/th_PA4.jpg
The enemy commander has exploded (you can see my navy at the visible top of the planet, about to be crushed by a moon), meanwhile my commander is safe and sound orbiting the 2nd moon in the background. http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o149/loaded321/Planetary%20Annihilation/th_PA2.jpg