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Star Fleet Battles (SFB) is a tactical board wargame set in an offshoot of the Star Trek setting called the Star Fleet Universe. Originally created in 1979 by Stephen V. Cole, [1] it has had four major editions. The current edition is published by Amarillo Design Bureau as Star Fleet Battles, Captain's Edition.
Another modern game implementing the idea behind Galactic Conquest is the FOSS game GNUlactic Konquest from the kdegames package. The Solarmax series is also based upon this concept. As of 2018 there are multiple clones of Galcon available on mobile platforms. [citation needed]
It features online multiplayer, a Galactic Conquest mode, an expanded Hero Assault mode, as well as additional characters and maps. It released on March 14, 2024, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] becoming the second game in the series to be available on a Nintendo platform after Elite Squadron on the Nintendo DS nearly fifteen years prior.
Like its predecessor, Battlefront II includes Galactic Conquest. In this mode, the player commands a fleet throughout the galaxy conquering and protecting planets, much like a game of Risk . [ 9 ] When two opposing forces reach the same planet, the game switches to the traditional perspective, and the player must eliminate the enemy faction to ...
Galactic Conquest had originally been run as a hobby (first created in late 1989), but proved its worth in the first eight games as a legitimate play-by-mail game. The public debut came at Gen Con/Origins 1992, followed shortly by a deal to make it an official Star Fleet Universe product (a change of the name to the Star Fleet Warlord).
In Galactic Conquest, the player uses strategy to take control of planets and dominate an area of the galaxy. First the player chooses a map configuration based on conflicts from both eras of Star Wars history. [3] Some maps start both sides evenly while others favor one faction. Next, the player chooses which faction to play as.
Galcon 2 is a multiplayer real-time strategy video game for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android and iOS created by American indie developer Phil Hassey and released in 2014. Like other games in the Galcon series, it is set in outer space and involves maneuvering fleets of ships to capture enemy planets.
Also, the Galactic Conquest mode features a new mechanic not seen in previous versions, where two players are able to share a single PSP, and compete against each other in a strategy based game mode. [2] [5] Players are also able to mix characters from the Star Wars saga and put them into locations and situations that never happened within ...