Armada 2526

So I played the game here and then I purchaed the gold edition on Gamer's Gate. The game is fun to play and moddable. However once you hit turn 200 or colonize 20 planets the game has a dramatic slow down in game play. At that point you'll mostly be waiting on the Resource or Population Manager, often times 20 mins plus for your turn to come up. At turn 200, I was just getting into the game and having fun. So I checked if there was a fix for this. No fix. Per the developers, the game is not designed to be played for long periods or for you to colonize every planet in sight. I usually won the game after 30-45 minutes of game play, often winning before I ever met another race, having gotten bored with that, I modded the victory conditions for more time. What's the point of having a universe with hundreds of planets, but if you colonize more then 20 planets, the game becomes unplayable with long periods (many minutes waiting on the AI to complete processing your turn) between turns. Even...

Armada 2526 is described by it's developers as "Master of Orion meets Total War" and while that might be something that intrigues you a thing to keep in mind is that merging two genre's does not always mean bringing over only their qualities. Armada is, in it's basic form, true to the developers claims. Half of the game takes place in a turn based galaxy view where you conduct research, engage in diplomacy, move your fleets around and designate construction and production on the various planets in your empire. The other half of the game happens when your fleets collide with those of your enemy and battle ensues, you are then transported into a real time battle field where you must find victory. The 4X portions of the game are decent without being impressive, the main feature of the game being population management where you you must manage immigration and emigration in order to maximize the tax efficiency and productivity of your colonies. This is an interesting feature that builds u...

Very basic for a 4x Space Empire-type game. There are much better, competing games at near the same price point such as Endless Space (which I don't really like, but do like better than this) & Space Empires V. Battle is pretty flat, no ship customization options (only through tech unlocks), very shallow technology trees. One feature that I did like and did not expect to find in a game of this low-end quality, was the ability to schedule repeated round-trip shuttling of popuations, or other land-based assets. If you can get this game on sale for $1 then maybe give it a whirl, otherwise pass.

I should have posted it years ago when I bought the game, but here it is : don't. the AI is frustrating, to the point that you get to pride yourself with a sizeable "attack fleet" made up of say, ten ships and a few space infantry units, then you get to some remote area in the enemy's empire only to find he has ten times more of everything. Extremely difficult game, even though the interface or the management is quite easy to understand. The last frustrating item is the inability of your opponents to have a coherent behavior. Allies for twenty turns, they turn on you just to kill one civilian in a colony, and that's it. I don't know what these guys did after that game, but I hope it included a sufficient amount of self-criticizing

This is an interesting space based game but its really weak on some things. The tech tree is much a joke compared to many other similar games and there is no ship customisation you get what you're given pretty much. To be honest I don't consider it worth £12 because it feels more like a flash game import than an actual game itself.

Why would you buy the original game when there's armada 2526 gold (with the supernova addon)? Because it offers a darker and different experience. It's much harder to keep everything in balance and to get money in the original game as you can't establish the big commercial hubs you have with Supernova. Also pollution is a much bigger problem as you don't good tools and techs to keep it down. I think it's still worth it for different challenge and you have to think the building of your colonies differentely. It's also the game i started with before the addon was released. If you don't have the game yet, i recommend to start with Armada 2526 gold first as if offers a lot more features.

i recommend this game only to fans of 4x strategy +interesting concept about space strategy +u choose a faction from many with each unique characteristics +enjoyable and relaxing +/- weird space music -supernova complete edition off steam? -graphics overall:7/10

i LOVE IT. yes its old styled, yes the graphics are bad, and yes there are bugs. But it brings me back to the days of starcraft 1 and warcaft 3 and that makes me so happy :) If you like old style games or stratagy games this is perfect!

This isn't Master of Orion. This game has less micro management, and thus is faster paced. Combat is closer to MOO 3 without the broken AI. Graphics is closer to MOO 1 but without the charming pixels. The game is Master of Orion watered down and that's all the positive things I can say about it. If you have played any Master of Orion, you can continue playing them. If you haven't played any Master of Orion. I don't know your frame of reference but it's safer to get a Master of Orion game than this watered down version. If you can't get Master of Orion and crave Master of Orion, this game may still your hunger if you close your eyes really hard and let the Master of Orion soundtrack play through your head.

This is one of the first space strategy games I got into. It is very accessible and easily sparks your imagination. I am looking forward to diving back in. At this point I can't see much difference between this and when I played the gold edition. My only criticism is the music - there isn't enough! I do think the themes and moods of the music are fitting but the tracks need to be more varied and longer. The aesthetics of the interface are a little bland and dated but it hardly gets in the way. This is a good introduction to anyone wanting to get into strategy games and in particular, space strategy.