Star Trek Armada 2 "Invasion" Playthrough Mission 1 - Full Commentary
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
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Today we begin a new walkthrough!
Star Trek Armada 2.
This is Mission 1 "Invasion"
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Great to see you doing Armada II as well, I have countless memories of playing this game growing up.
I look forward to hearing your reactions to the twists and turns story wise in the upcoming missions.
I loved this game so much. I put so many hours into it.
I put soo many hours into this game and it's still one of my favourites. I haven't played it years but I've still got a physical copy of it somewhere.
Top tip. When you've colonized a planet put a star base in orbit. Fills up your crew pool faster.
Also upgrade you star base to get more available officers to build bigger fleets
Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that 🖖
I would recommend building 4 Dilithium Mining Stations around each moon and right directly against the “footprint” box for them. Then torpedo and phaser turrets in between the spaces left by the moon that way they protect the mining ships and stations. Dilithium becomes at a premium at points and the extra stations for mining keeps a steady flow of Dilithium. For planets a Starbase nearby protects both the colony and orbital mining stations. (Off course there’s orbital mining station mods that have armed them to defend them and attack plants. (Namely adding to the ODF file canAttackPlanets = 1 will allow ships and stations to attack them)
Also if you want to mod the shipyard to remove the colony ship from it to the Starbase you can remove it from the ODF file (then re-number the build list numbers) and add it to the Starbase taking the next available number.
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All of these tips would come in handy in the mod I’m working on with a few people that actually makes the Borg even tougher right off the bat (at the cost of the Borg campaign sadly becoming easier but we have a plan to slightly mitigate that as well).
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The building of 4 mining stations, and turrets with them and a Starbase to protect orbital mining stations is what I found best in the stock game even before getting into modding it.
18:00 The default alert and autonomy settings are more nuanced in this game. There’s one for aggression (attack all enemies, attack enemies that attack you, and don’t attack at all), one for mobility (follow an enemy ship wherever it goes, pursue to a certain range then return, and don’t go anywhere I didn’t explicitly tell you), and one for the special weapons (use at any opportunity, use occasionally, and don’t use if I don’t tell you). I usually set scouts to no aggression and high mobility, and the opposite for all the other ships.
And if you change the autonomy settings for a shipyard, all ships that shipyard builds come out with those settings (until you change them, of course).
Very fond memories of this game. I remember getting a used copy as a child via eBay back in 2004 and playing all the way through several times. Then as an adult I purchased again on GOG and play it through at least once a year. There’s a lot of strategies to the game. One that is useful that I didn’t see you doing is selecting a fleet and pressing CTRL+(any single digit number) to number your fleet so that you press that number for quick recall.
That's cool! Do you know how many missions it has? It's great that GOG have brought some of these trek games back for us. Thanks about the CTRL+ I used that tactic in Armada 1. Very useful to know 🖖
I love Armada. Especially with that overhaul mod
Dam that akira having fun reminds me of that episode of star trek bridge commander lol All them ships that spined out of control!
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Thankyou for my weekly hit of nostalgia. Don't want to pressure you but will need another his soon so...... you know crack on 😂
Love that you can have formations to fight
I used to LOVE this game, gosh wonder why I stopped playing, I wonder if I knew my last game would be my last game 🥺
4:12 So, quick refresher. You can have your ships (even the slow Steamrunners) warp to a destination by right clicking on the mini-map. You can see a purple ring above you on that mini-map. That’s the gravity zone (so if you see one, you know a planet or black hole is close). Your ships cannot warp inside (because I guess they forgot Star Trek IV) but they will skirt around if necessary.
Thanks for this info buddy, really helps! 🖖
Scroll button to zoom in and out!
😲Jeepers Admail.. this Armada 2 looks nice.. and this missions eeh.. Borg colonized a planet in the Badlands.. eeh.. has Picard 3 vibes lol. and YEESSS. lol sorry.. build Akiras.. lol.. 🤗nice.. lol. and even the voices sound clear too. amazing hearing the actors voices in a game years back wow.. this are priceless.. When the Borg Announced.. lol you said '' Oh', thought your were gonna do the Doctors way in Voyager lol.. I noticed.. the ships come in fast and everything is fast.. gosh.. 😊THANK YOU ADMIRAL.. lol.. 😂You know me all too well lol.. 😳😱Nooo!! not my Akiras.. rrrrrh.. What was Khan's famous words.. ''the last, I will grapple with thee... from Hell's heart, I stab at thee! I spit my last breath at thee!'' Borg Queen.. lol just saying.. 🤔sorry Admiral.. I hit the wrong button, why that Akira was spinning lol. 😨gosh.. like how the ships swarm like Bees.. lol. I wonder that Borg Ship , where Beverly was in charge of the Ent... in Enterprise.. were the Borg trying to build out that earth ship.. hmmm 😳oh gosh.. the Borg with New Tech. and tachyons means, time travel.. oh my.. Love the mission Admiral and yes so much in this game that goes so fast and ships just take off. gosh.. Very nice tactics.. and wonder what happened to the Ferengi ship... hmm better ask Dylan and Quark.. lol 😊🖖
That's a good point about Picard, never thought of that. Those sneaky Borg! HAHA, Many Akira's. In fact is that the most ever featured on the channel... very possible. Khan would be very useful as an ally in this game. Hmmz, I can't quite remember about the Borg Ship. It may have been a human one/converted, it's been a while! The same thing happened in Enterprise. Oooh, I just read, your wrote the same thing 😂. Yes.... there will be a very strong written letter sent to Mr Comedian about this incident. I want my Scout back! Thanks for watching 🖖
@@RetroBadgerGaming That In Picard.. the Borg Queen said He left us, but I read was Admiral Janeway.. hmm Yes.. thank you again for mentioning me. lol I was shocked lol and Yes.. as Dylan and Quark, where did the Scout go and the Ferengi ship lol 🖖😂
12:28 There’s a trade-off to traveling at warp. Your sensors have a more limited range and your shields aren’t at full. Scouting is better at impulse, warp is more for getting ships to hot spots or letting them flee for repairs.
Never knew that! 🖖
Latinum to pay for shields for the planet!
4:43 You need an orbital processing center around a planet to get metal (or you trade for it using a trading station which the game introduces in the next mission, IIRC). Colonizing a planet (even when it isn’t a mission objective) boosts your crew production.
Ooooh, a trading station, interesting 🖖
Ty for the video and LLAP!
Thanks for watching 🖖
I think you can disassemble stations by using the command chair icon. The I-beam icon is for construction.
This. That's where you find it.
One of my tactics is also stealing enemy ships to take back to a shipyard and disassemble them. It's fantastic for building quick resources when you're still playing defensively.
Unlimited is purple dilitium nodes!
Dam im so excited for ur game plays.... i still remember playing the game, even tho its been a year to a decade since i last played!
Thanks! I’m trying to get 2 a week out. The first Armada was certainly memorable, glad to hear Armada 2 is. I’m pretty sure it has more missions than Armada 1?
How about the TOS USS Enterprise VS the NXO1 Refit? All of your videos are amazing and love the comments too!
11:13 You should be. They have been canon since "TOS: Whom Gods Destroy".
You can directly transport to the planet surface to colonies the planet! Almost forgot only certain ships can! Enterprise E can!
Thanks for that tip, that’s very helpful! 🖖
@@RetroBadgerGaming i think so it should.. i know galaxys can! Well thats what i did!
Yellow Nebulas kill crew of starships! Red damage the ships! an Blue disables the shields of the ships!
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I used to play this 20 years ago.........my CD went bad years ago and I can't play anymore.
GOG have re-released it! 🖖
Star Trek: Legacy uses an iteration of the same engine, as far as I'm aware. It's no surprise given one of the features of the engine is an exaggerated collision avoidance system :)
It's way too early to suggest it, but there's an Armada III mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion. It's pretty deep even without playing the larger maps, though.
Oh really? Wow. Ah, yes. The collision detection is sometimes hilarious. Cheers about the Armada 3 mod, I’ll check that out at some point! 🖖
@@RetroBadgerGaming There's confusion over whether it's the same engine, at the very least it'd have used some of the tools and assets. Regardless, what we ended up seeing was pretty enhanced, particularly the shadowing.
3:27 Sadly no. It’s mostly a gimmick because it’s expected. I do wonder if you can still do orbital bombardments with only half a Galaxy (or if it matters which half).
That’s an interesting idea to test out. 🖖
You know its funny seeing the galaxy in this, as with the Enterprise E, everytime I see it, its just like sort of meh, like I think I liked armada 1 so much partly because of the premonition and how much better it looked, like a sovereign done right, and even here I see the galaxy and my eye jumps right to it over the E
and they could have done something fun here, like the whole point of the galaxy was basically their was all this extra space so it could have been outfitted for specific roles
and imagine if you could have used the research facility to rig it up to do such things
like a galaxy X asteroid breaker, which is what I kinda figure would have been the cannon reason for outfitting it with that gigantic phaser at the front in all good things, where you can literally cut through asteroid fields with it to shortcut the map and do some serious damage as a capitol ship
or like a science or torpedo build with maybe the top unit of the nebula ontop of it, and the science version has far improved sensor range to make it good for scouting at the cost of its durability
IE what the enterprise D was in generations
or have that the science version can split and block sensors with the anti mater spread so they cant target you as well, or their distance is diminished,
and then the dominion war era battle cruiser, where you could build galaxy class wings with maybe the saucers having a slow emergency warp drive built in so its really two ships in one fully, with less resources, and sensors but more power and durability
IE what the enterprise D was in picard, and even then seeing it back the more I think on it, the more that feels like a cheat, like that needed alot more explaining
23:19 Yes, there is a pseudo-3D component to this game, and one thing it’s notorious for is hiding ships close to or even above the camera (or so far down you don’t see them). It always struck me as more gimmick than contribution, at least compared to how the rest of the gameplay expansions improve on what Armada 1 could do.
Your right, it’s a total gimmick. If anything i think it makes the gameplay harder. Could it be a good way of hiding your ships from the computer?
Unfortunately no. The computer will never get fooled by that the way a human player might.
"... real game changer." We see what you did.
Birth of the Federation was one of my favorite games. I wonder if there is any way to find an old copy and play it on Wine under Linux.
BOTF was amazing. It still hasn't been bested.I imagine it would run under Wine being graphically simple. Pretty sure I got it running in a virtual machine years ago that didn't have 3d Graphics capabilities. 🖖
Dnt forget in this game you can mine latinum nebula and convert it. That will be very valuable
I never knew that either 😂. Thanks! I probably should have played the tutorial 🖖
OMG I've been looking forward to this... Found my original copy woot woot now I jt gotta find a DVD drive lol
Request- Could we see a battle between The Tamarian deep space cruiser Vs. Enterprise NCC-1701-D from the episode "Darmok" TNG. as in WHAT IF they did become New enemies?
Indeed! I’ve found a ship model, just need to test it 🖖
Always so you can put the Enterprise k with something?
It's a crime worf doesn't voice battle comms in star trek games, one could say it's dishonorable. As much as a good day to die, for 🤣
Maybe a odd question but how did you get A2 to work? I brought it on GOG and i could not get it to work :(
It just worked for me. What OS/Computer are you running it on? There is a 1.3 patch that may help 🖖
Does pressing "g" still toggle the grid background?
I’m not sure, I’ll try it out and mention it in the next video 🖖
R to repair!
Thanks! That’s really handy to know 🖖
Click the brain symbol on the ships to learn about more control of the ships ... When scouting I set it to green on all 3 bits
Hold shift to navigate up or down in the world I believe... Also you can build up and down but not physically on top of each other building
Thanks 🖖
Haven't finished watching buuuut when your reticule is green it means impulse and when blue it means warp
From memory you auto warp if navigated from mini map and impulse from main view unless you hold alt while clicking
Thanks for that info, really helps 🖖
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The best cheat code ever devised! 🖖