Well you Navy boys are in luck. It seems that an expansion pack to your precious Empire at War has come out Anyway, Gamespot had some nice info on it from E3 and it looks beautiful.
"New factions? 1. All-new units in new faction? 40. New planets? 13. Number of Executor-class starships we saw in action? 1. Number of players who can skirmish simultaneously with expansion pack content? 3. Seeing Yoda kill dozens of stormtroopers with his berserker lightsaber attack? Priceless." -Gamespot
It's an interesting look at the review and comes with a trailer for the expansion
I saw what looked exactly like a Soveign/Eclipse. It's preatty easy to distinguish from everything else, especially when it's bigger on the map than the Executor and seems to be able to blow up any ship with one shot from it's mini superlaser.
-Admiral Jagged "Krayt" Fel AD Jagged Fel / SecGroup 2 SG-FO / ISD Nemesis / Imperial Navy
[GS]x3[SS]x3[BS]x4[IS-P][MoM]x9[IVC-GW][IVC-GL]x2[IVC-BW]x3[IVC-BL][IVM-GB][IVM-SB][AAEH-4P][AAE-PB-2P][LSM-12S][MoC-7S][MoT-PG][MoX-SG] (A1C)(RG-G1E)(SOE-ER)
Commander of the Navy
Yes, that was an Eclipse class SSD, coaxial superlaser and all. I don't agree with having something that massive in the game, but I suppose it's a trade off to get at the other stuff they put in. Even so I think I'll still buy it anyway.
Well... I'm sure Red Squadron will be able to blow that coaxial superlaser with one lucky shot.
I hope so, so for your sake. Especially with that powerful laser. I do like that the Death Star II can target ships though. I just hope this Eclipse (Despite the fact it seems to be on the wrong side and is WAY too early in the timeline) doesn't unbalance the game too much, and hopefull there's be a good counter for it... besides the Death Star.
I hope they're planning on releasing the map tools before they release this. It does look nice but I agree that Eclipse Class does look a bit overpowered....
--Lieutenant Dak Maris
LT Maris / SCS-CO / FRG Tsunami / Imperial Navy
[MoM][AAE-PB-1P][AAE-GP-1P][AAE-BP-1P]
I bet they forgot to bring balance to the multiplayer side of the game by making the Imperials even to the Rebs. Instead they let everything as it is and add superships.
I think I will pass this one :p
Retired fossil Steel "For the greater glory of the Empire..."
Well hopefully the may have improved the Rebel's ability to hide out. And if the Galaxy is finally large enough to make for an interesting game, there would be plenty of worlds for them to hide on.
I'm sure the Eclipse will be very resource intensive and will most likely be suseptable to a large fleet of smaller craft.
Anyway, Gamespot had some nice info on it from E3 and it looks beautiful.
