A fleet for every war
Recruit corvettes, frigates, cruisers, carriers and battlecruisers, each with its own job in the line. Every empire builds its own designs, so you know a rival's fleet by its shape before the first shot.
An empire is breaking. Every war for its pieces is yours to fight.
The Long Peace of Palatine is over and its Crown Seal lies in two halves. Move fleets, besiege worlds and sign treaties turn by turn on the galaxy map. When fleets meet, take command: thousands of warships jump in, trade fire and burn, and every ship you lose stays lost.
Key features
Real-time battles
Command fleets of thousands
Lead more than 3,000 warships onto one battlefield. Cruisers pound each other at range, corvettes swarm the flanks and carriers fill the space between the lines with fighters and bombers. Every ship flies, fires and burns on its own.
Deployment
Jump in when it hurts most
Battles open on an empty field. You decide when each unit jumps in and where, inside a jump zone that grows with your fleet. Hold your reserves back or throw everything in at once. Your enemy keeps its own reserves hidden until they arrive.
Tactics
Know what kills what
Damage types meet armour and shields, turrets fire only where their arcs reach, and every ship shows its hit chance against each target.
- The Screen
- Put point-defence ships ahead of your cruisers and shoot the torpedoes down before they land.
- The Reserve
- Hold your heaviest units back and jump them in once the enemy has committed.
- The Blackout
- Hit a capital with ion weapons and its guns fall silent for a few seconds.
- The Swarm
- Launch fighters and bombers and let them strip a slow ship while your line holds.
Sieges
Take a province, station by station
A siege is fought across a whole province, hundreds of kilometres wide. Fortresses fire back, shipyards launch fresh defenders in the middle of the battle and the planetary guard strikes at your lines. Every station you capture opens a new jump point, and the siege goes on, turn after turn, until the defence breaks.
Admirals who think for themselves
Enemy commanders follow their own traits. They focus fire, flank, hold back reserves and pull damaged units out to recover their shields. No two battles play out the same.
Rule a breaking empire
Lead one of eight story factions through the fall of Palatine, or rule a new galaxy in Sandbox. Pick a government, grow your worlds, and survive crises, fallen empires and marauders.
Build, capture, destroy
Start a skirmish from one station. Take resource points for credits, grow your station through five levels and break guard posts for their bounty, then destroy the enemy station. Face up to 63 computer rivals in any teams, or play a siege, fleet battle or survival match.
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