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Star Trek Armada III, the best Star Trek Gaming Mod!

This is an article about the very famous and excellently created mod for Sins of the Solar Empire: Rebellion, Star Trek Armada III!

By KaiserKirk Wed 03 Jan, 2018 5:06 PM - Last Updated: Wed 03 Jan, 2018 5:13 PM
This is an Editorial by by Kirk142.

Star Trek is one of the biggest Sci-Fi franchises with having broken the box office with all three of its latest movies. But as we also know Star Trek games (especially good ones) are far and few between, and though STO (Star Trek Online) can keep you entertained for hours... it does get old very quickly.

That's why dedicated members of the online community have been spending major amounts of their free time building some of the most amazing mods that honestly should have been made into a stand-alone. If you want excellent graphics, great 4x4 gameplay, detailed maps and lore rich scenarios look no further than Star Trek Armada 3!

First a little bit of information about the mod; currently sitting as the top played mod on Mod DB for Sins of the Solar Empire:Rebellion, its no wonder why it has achieved over 60,000 downloads in 2017. When you play a game you start off with one planet and the ability to build a small fleet to 'colonise' neighbouring worlds, you also get the ability to build two types of research stations, one for military research that grants you the ability to build new ships or improve on existing ones. There is also civilian research that can grant you new buildings like trade ports that expand your economy, diplomatic abilities, colonial expenses and so on.

What the mod does is remove the factions in the base game and replaces them with Star Trek themed resources/ships etc! You now have the ability to play as either the Federation, Klingons, Cardassians or Dominion, Romulans and the Borg. Each faction has a different play style and feel, I've listed some snippets below (and my opinion!)

Federation: +on trade, -on military might. You can have a lot of resources very fast but your ships are weaker.

Klingons: +on military strength and capacity, -on trade and resources. You can build a lot more ships with better armour and armaments but your economy is not the best. Also research in anything over than military costs much more.

Cardassians/Dominion: surprisingly they are more equal in their economy and military but they do lean more to the military. Very balanced approach... at first. After you choose to stay as the Union or go for the Dominion it changes things up a bit.

Romulans: This is my least played, they are more based on having strong ships and an okay economy but fewer ships.

Borg: The borg have the highest ship health and damage output and can even assimilate other vessels (most have there own new assimilated model), - the worst economy and everything is very expensive.

But that's not all, if you get all the DLC's for the game then you are in for a treat, if enabled each game now can spawn extra boons to the galaxy such as a Mirror Universe invasion (with custom models), Borg cube attack (with triple the health and damage of a playable cube), Dishonoured Klingon house raid and so forth, even the crystal entity is included and don't forget the space probe and dooms day machine!
The point is that this mod is jam packed with cool features like saucer separation for the Galaxy class and how each faction is given three - four heros to add to your fleet. Yes you can have Gowron leading your fleet into glorious battle or Picard exploring the unknown or even Locutus setting out to destroy humanity!

The lore of the mod is that only a few years after the Dominion War all the factions go to war for various reasons. But gravity wells have cool items like old shipyards which can produce older ships from the TMP era like the Constitution class. I am having just too hard of a time figuring out what to add and what not to as there is just so much detail involved with this mod!

If you are interested in viewing more images about Armada 3 I recommend you visit the Images here! (Off Site URL)

Relevant Links:
Mod DB: http://www.moddb.com/mods/star-trek-armada-3
Steam: http://http://store.steampowered.com...ire_Rebellion/

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WRITTEN BY KIRK 142
EDITED BY INFINITY - lewis.holt@ufplanets.com
4 Comments
Wed 03 Jan, 2018 6:53 PM
This mod has to be one of the best total conversion mods in any strategy game out there.
Wed 03 Jan, 2018 8:21 PM
Agreed, what do you think is the best part of the mod?
Wed 03 Jan, 2018 8:51 PM
Hands down, the ships.

The next best would be the lore provided with the research tech tree which made everything feel more realistic.
Wed 03 Jan, 2018 8:54 PM
Hands down, the ships.

The next best would be the lore provided with the research tech tree which made everything feel more realistic.
Again I would have to agree, the beauty of battle when you can see all your little ships firing phasers or disrupters (depends on what faction).