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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I wanted to put this up here, just because its an amazing mod to the old Empire at War game and is absolutely gorgeous right now the mod focuses on space combat but land combat is coming. But it makes a game that I really liked a lot more fresh.
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I wanted to bump this a bit, because its such a shockingly good mod and completely changes the game.
First of all, at this point here's no ground combat, this is a space game.
The models are amazing, and the sheer number of ships that you can build is huge.
The unit limit for star ships in the original Empire at war was about 25, I fought my first battle tonight and it was 400.
I had a fleet of 8 star destroyers, 5 carriers, and a bunch of smaller support ships that were great for anti fighter combat. In my first battle I was fighting pirates and not the rebels. I jumped that fleet in, and the first thing I noticed was that the enemy AI was just far better then the original game. If you had a powerful fleet in the original game you could battle through, not this time, the enemy launched a huge fighter cloud at me, and while I was trying to clean them up, he flanked me from the side and caught me in a vicious attack, where I was trying to clean up the enemy fighters while turning my capital ships to take them on.
I finally cleared their fleet out and proceeded towards the pirate station. I jumped my reserve fleet of 8 venetars in by the enemy space station, and thought I had the battle won, when the pirates jumped in 8 Mandalorian battle cruisers and just ripped my reserve fleet to shreds. I eventually won the battle but it was costly.
The other cool change is they've made this game way more of a 4x, you have to pay attention to your income and build freighters and gas refinerys because if you run low on money the enemy will jump all over you.
The production is genuinely gorgeous to look at. You get caught sometimes because you set your fleets orders, and then hit the space bar for cinematic view and its just like watching a Star Wars space battle, but you lose track of the battle and the next thing you know, you're uber expensive Super Star Destroyer is burning in front of your very eyes.
This remake/mod is probably the best Space battle/conquest game that I've played in a long time, and its free.