Star Trek Armada

[Niemz]

I love both Armada & Armada II, I have to find out if they made a 3rd one...

Star Trek: Armada is a computer game published by Activision in 2000, based upon the Star Trek universe. It also has a sequel, Star Trek: Armada II.

A real-time strategy game, it showcases the events in the Alpha Quadrant between the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Empire and the Borg.

[Niemz]

There are four races in this game: Romulans, Klingons, the Federation, and the Borg. Each race has a starbase, dilithium refinery, two shipyards, a basic defense turret, an advanced defense turret, two special weapon research facilities, and a super weapon. The super weapon can be based on a station or on a ship that is built from this station. The Federation super weapon is the Temporal Stasis Field, created at the Temporal Research Facility. This freezes all enemy ships in the designated area for a specific amount of time.

The Klingon super weapon is the Shockwave. This is based on a ship that is built from the Shockwave facility. The shockwave disables the ship's engines preventing escape. This weapon also does heavy damage to anything in the way of the shockwave before it dissipates.

The Romulan super weapon is the Phoenix rift. This is similar to the Shockwave, except that it creates a circular rift instead of a straight wave, also this does not disable the ships engine, thus allowing escape.

Finally, the Borg super weapon is the Transwarp Gate, a building that creates an artificial wormhole to any point that is or has been visible to you (i.e. is not in the shroud). This wormhole also allows back travel to the gate which can be an effective method of extraction, or a serious mistake.

Each race has 8 normal ships. They include a construction ship that constructs all buildings, a dilithium freighter to mine dilithium, a scout ship, a destroyer, a phaser cruiser, an artillery cruiser (Federation/Romulan) an assimilator (Borg) or a boarding craft(Klingon), a science ship (each contains 4 special weapons), and a battleship.

The stations have the following functions:

* Starbase: Builds construction ships and dilithium freighters, as well as collecting crew into the crew pool.
* Shipyard: Builds basic ships (scout, destroyer, cruisers)
* Advanced Shipyard: Builds Science ships and Battleships.
* Phaser Turret: Fires pulse phasers (or races equivalent) at all enemy targets within range.
* Torpedo Turret: Fires torpeoes, more powerful than Phaser Turret, with a longer range, but not so accurate.
* Research Facilities: Researches all special weapons (see below).
* Super Weapon Stations: Activates (or builds ships that activate) super weapons. These buildings are very expensive, but often worth it.

Each ship has its own special weapon. A special weapon uses special weapon energy. Each ship has a predetermined energy quotient, and a specified energy recharge rate. A special weapon often affects a number of targets within the vicinity of the ship from which it is released, but some need a target to aim at. Special weapons can be used to benefit your own ships as well as against those of your enemies. For example, the Romulan Shield Inversion Beam (Warbird), drains an enemy ship's shields and simultaneously adds the shield energy to its own shield

[Niemz]

Star Trek: Armada II is a computer game published by Activision in 2001, based upon the Star Trek universe. The game was developed by Mad Doc Software. It is the sequel to Star Trek: Armada. Star Trek: Armada II was released by Activision a year after they acquired the full rights to all the franchise holding of the PC Game's franchise from Viacom. It was the first of the 3 major Star Trek CP Game sequel titles that was released by Activision from 2001 until their departure from the franchise in 2003.

Another real-time strategy game like the original, it showcases the events in the Alpha Quadrant between the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, the Cardassian Union, Species 8472, and the Borg.

[Niemz]

Races

The races available in campaign mode are The United Federation of Planets, The Klingon Empire, and The Borg Collective. In other methods of play, such as Multiplayer and Instant Action (Skirmish), the Cardassians, Romulans, and Species 8472 are added as playable factions. Also, on various sites, there are mods for download that will add races to this game.

While most races' gameplay is essentially the same, Species 8472 are different because of their biotechnology. The latinum (no trade) and crew (one pilot per ship) resources are not used by them. They have no use for planets, and all collected resources are turned into biomatter for growing their ships. Species 8472 have no interest in using other races' technology. Because of this, their ships cannot take over enemy ships and cannot themselves be taken over.

Modding

There is a community of modders creating new ships, stations, maps, and races for Star Trek: Armada II. There are some which include multi-scifi universes; including Star Wars and Andromeda, and some which change it entirely. Others may add races not included in the original game - these have included the Dominion, the Ferengi, and the Breen.

[Mortalas]

From my point of view. one was better than 2.

[Niemz]

Armada II is 3D which is pretty cool.

[Mortalas]

Yep, much cooler in 3d.

[earthcrusher]

This game sounds like fun! It kind of sounds like it is based off of command and conquer. Yes/no?? no/yes???

[Niemz]

Same kinda game as CC.

[earthcrusher]

I MIGHT HAVE TO GET THAT ONE.

[Mortalas]

It is a fun game, if my old copy still worked, I'd send it to you.

[earthcrusher]

Thanks for the thought.

[Mortalas]

The first one is free.

[earthcrusher]

I only pay a penny per thought.

[Mortalas]

Lol