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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.
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.
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).
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Early precursors include the board games Outreach and Stellar Conquest, both published in the 1970s. [1] Some early strategy video games, such as Andromeda Conquest (1982) and Cosmic Balance II (1983) incorporated what would later become elements of 4X games, but the first 4X video game was Reach for the Stars (1983).
A second mode, titled Conquest, combines the pre-existing elements of large-scale combat with turn-based strategy, similar to the Galactic Conquest mode seen in Star Wars: Battlefront II. Game levels are represented by tiles on the map, and each tile can hold up to three battalions.
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Gameplay in Star Wars: Battlefront.The objective is to eliminate all enemy forces or capture all command posts (seen in red in the background). Star Wars: Battlefront encompasses battles between four main factions from both the original and prequel trilogies: the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems (CIS) from the prequel era, and the Rebel Alliance and Galactic Empire ...