STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack

amazing stuff a very classic game that is good for all players

pretty fun game but if you play as the empire the resistence will completely bombarde you with fleets and you might get mad

STAR WARS !

i love starwars

TL:DR; A good if very dated star wars strategy game, Space combat got all the love. Quite an active modding scene even all these years later. It's odd how we've never had more than a scant handful of strategic games set in the Star Wars universe. Not like it isn't built for it with the ludicrous plethora of unit types, unique terrains and hero units. Despite both Land and Space theatres being available and equally important to victory, the space one is clearly the better designed of the two. Larger ships have vital points you can damage or disable to effect how they fight, whereas ground battles tend towards sending a large blob of your troops at the enemy. The galaxy over-map is pretty standard, each planet has a limit on the number of buildings you can build- different buildings allow different unit drafting -and each planet also gives a unique bonus to either a unit or economic function. I like how only a handful of planets allow you to build the most powerful units on them, it creates natural inclinations towards where you build up defences and deploy armies from in an otherwise very open map. It's oddly not turn based, but I recommend slowing the speed down greatly anyway to assist unless you're waiting for a fleet to move between systems. There's only two factions (not including the pirates in the expansion pack), Rebels and Empire. They play exactly how you think they would. Rebels are more about speed and cunning, Empire is more about strength and direct action. If its been in a movie, a book or an action figure, it's probably here somewhere as a unit. I like the way you can bring an army of any size to battle, but can only actively use a certain amount of them. Army makeup is very important for winning your fights, and the ability to set up then bring in reinforcements is vital for success. Retreating single units mid-battle can't be done for some reason. You either win the battle with what you call in, get them killed, or retreat with the whole army at once. I think these days Sins of a Solar Empire's Star Wars modding scene has more or less completely taken over from this game. That's not to say the two games are the same, only that SoaSE did quite well with its space combat, and it led naturally for modders to reflavour it to their liking.

peak

An old classic that I still love!