This is one of the few games my dad used to play while i was growing up, i remember watching him play this, and he could sit played through the entire game at once. Since i didn't understand english by that time, i didn't understand a single thing happening on the screen. Fast Forward 18 years later, i really want to play the game, i have a couple of 1995 computers so running the game wouldn't be an issue. Thank you for an informal review.
A loyal reboot of this game would be amazing. It is one of my favorite games regardless of the clunky UI and steep learning curve =) I hope GOG uploads this game soon, I haven't been able to make it work on my machine regardless of my efforts..
This game was just great and unique. God I liked to have that big fleet with Thrawn as Admiral, Pallaeon as Commander and Jerjerrod as General. I felt like I could take over the whole Alliance all by myself.
I agree about the remake. I have been trying to remember the name of this game since I watched The Force Awakens. I remember spending hours a day not doing homework playing this game lol!
This was the 2nd game I ever bought, once I saved up enough money. I remember how awesome it was back in the day, and this brought back good memories! You're totally right though, an HD remake with an improved UI and space battles and this would be another instant classic (and something the Star Wars universe really needs, as apparently they don't make good games for it anymore)
Really good review, no loud and stupid mosh pit music covering up what you were saying and no senseless babbling to fill in the video. I had borrowed the game once for a week back in 99 and loved playing it. Been sort of searching for it on and off since then. Thanks again!
The only major flaw in my opinion was the fact that sometimes you would seemingly conquer the entire galaxy but then would go on an endless chase for one of the main adversaries that you hadn't captured yet.
been browsing gog for games and found this game there but was not sure of whether to buy it bc the description and screen shots didnt tell me much. this review was very helpful
A damn good game,but very time consuming like a lot of old PC titles that had great character to them. Despite it's weaknesses, it's still one of my favorite Star Wars games.
Another big problems I had with this game not mentioned in the video: - Of course you can build the Death Star, which is cool, but it take an insane amount of time and almost half the Empire ressources that could be used to build more ships and troops... Also, the Death Star is too easy to destroy using X-wings (unless you built a Death Star Shield like the one on Endor) or sabotage with agents like Han Solo/ Chewie, etc... - A few times, I won as the Empire with only 3-4 Imperial Star Destroyers (You starts the game with none built, if I remember correctly)... We're a bit far from the thousands the Empire is supposed to have, according to the Star War lore... These and the infamous "Pause-Fast-Pause" explained in the video are the reasons I won't plays this game anymore, even if I have some good memories of it (Specific escape of prisonier heroes, Battles that was too close for comfort, etc...) If I want my strategic Star Wars fix, I'll play Empire at War (Forces of Corruption)...
you have 2 Star Destroyers always, and occasionally roll up to 4, depending on which of the random planets you were assigned during set-up which increases your initial unit budget. That's why if you mess with the unit values in the editor, you start with a ridiculous amount of ships, since it rolls your starting units based a budget of your current income after planets are distributed.
funny thing to do is accumulate fleets of hundreds of ships and thousands of fighters. I think the largest fleet I ever assembled in once location was 150 ships and 2000 tie fighter squadrons. I would just launch all the fighters like a plague of locusts that ate the enemy fleet.
Occasionally the AI gathers their forces into doomstacks like these. You'll see a bunch of bulk transports show up with endless wookie regiments and it's like, "well, I just hope they're still there when my star destroyers show up to relieve the system"
I used to play this on very short campaign (only capture Coruscant or the Rebel Base), trying to get it done as quickly as possible and naming my ships after the naming conventions from the movies. Like my first Calamari cruiser would be the Home One etc. I also got this game a couple of years after I first heard and read the Thrawn trilogy which gave many of the new characters so much more context.
Playing it right now as I type, Vader just took out chewbacca and next captured Han in what I imagine to be in some Dramatic rage on Han's part. 30 days later Vader was in the same system as luke, so they fought and I caught him. Vader took luke to the Emperor for the Final Confrontation and Luke escaped while capturing Vader and the Emperor while on Coruscant and with the Imperial Fleet in Orbit. Karma's a bitch.
By the way, this an quite a few other star wars games are on steam now (so they'll be compatible with windows vista, 7, 8 and 10 ;) and there's the humble bundle offer this week. So you may be interested.
+pcgheroes cool, I got the first four of them. Didn't realize the games were nearly 20 years old though :s Hopefully I can still enjoy them though, as I grew up playing spectrums and Commodores. Can you recommend which of the four would be the best to start with?..perhaps this one?
+peter hope also (you probs already know, but just incase) the other bundle still available is really great. Two of the games, outlast, and never alone are fantastic games, and you get a 75% discount on the outbreak add on,...the whistleblower, which works out about one pound sixty👍🏻 there's also another game that I haven't played that comes with it that looks really fun. Some type of retro GTA style game, that has a lot of nostalgia in it from old titles 😀🕹
+peter hope I only got the first four in the star wars one as well since I already own kotor. I pretty much just got them for X-wing vs Tie Fighter(since I remember having fun messing with that when I was younger) and of course a steam version of this game, SW Rebellion. The other two I haven't tried yet, so I can't comment on them.
frankly the combat has more depth than most "strategy" games now adays in fact this game only needs some minor enhancements and an HD remake and i would buy it in 2 seconds
For the issue with the speed, i use "strg"+"+" or "-", that controls the rime also. So i don't have to move the mouse up there and keep my hands on the keyboard. It's become no hassle since then.
this game is avaliable on GOG, and that's great, because once you figure out its confusing menus (helps being fan of Firaxis and specially Paradox games to understand its mechanics) it holds up pretty well despite its age. It's a bit limited and repetitive compared to the best of the genre, but being an StarWars game makes it awesome. A must for fans of both, stategy games and StarWars.
Busted out my CD after watching a lets play. I agree. Not sure if Hotkeys were even an idea yet, but they would have been great for the "stop-start" style of this game. To get it running on Windows 7 you will need both Windows Virtual PC and Virtual Windows XP. Both of which are free downloads for Win 7 users. For the Windows Virtual PC - www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3702 For the Windows XP mode - www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8002 Edit: I notice that someone says the "Alt" and "+/-" keys are hotkeys for speed. Awesome find! Oh yeah. Be prepared for a tiny play-window. The game is like 640 x 480 max resolution.
They really need to remake this game. I was eight when this game out, boy this and X -Wing vs Tie Fighter were awesome games. If they would remake this game, it would definitely increase and re-spark the Star Wars magic.
this was one of the best games i have ever played. graphically not brilliant but game play and strategy is one of the best to date IMHO. ive had some great multi player games. . other games similar which i also liked was Birth of the Federation. similar with a slightly better space battle system although it was also very clunky and limited tactically
Getting into the game is somewhat hard due to the lack of a tutorial, but beyond that this game is simply great. Never understood how Lucasarts can make these wonders like Rebellion and TIE Fighter and just forget they exist.
I played this a lot back on its release and while it does have quite a few good points, it also has a badly designed UI. You have to mirco-manage your resources, manufacturing, characters, etc. at each planet. There are no overall control panels for each aspect of the gameplay. Loved the use of the John Williams music and that there was no single 'frontline', as each planet can be attacked individually and that makes things very tense at times. The cut-scenes were excellent and it was of course 'Star Wars' which compensated for some limitations and flaws.
it's all easier to manage if you build up each planetary system to be rather self sufficient. Each planet with super high energy will just farm shipyards, construction, and barracks, with the rest just being refineries and mines. In the late game, you can just have systems devoted all to resources, and just park shield generators and cheap troops to delay enemy raiders until you can send reinforcements.
I played it in multiplayer with a friend once. We decided not to attack each other for 500 days, build enormous fleets and then send all ships into battle at once. It was so slow that it was not even close to get decided after 2 hours, then we just decided to quit.
But doesn't "Star Wars: Empire at war" fill your bill? It got space cpmbat, economics, and ground combats. Mods also add story elements to the GC mode.
RAsplez 98 I think the same thing but is not the same, the amount of ships and ground units are lame compared to rebellion... And the missions don't forget the missions are awesome
Worst thing in the game was having a death star but no tie defenders yet, because a sole x-wing would come along and destroy that "ultimate battle station" like no big deal. there was no bloody way but having 13 tie defenders in the death star hangars to defend it. But the vast amount of lore alone was worth the money. Definitely would buy an hd remake with improved battle system and ui. but then again, today it would most likely be centered around all the wrong parts of the star wars universe. Thrawn was always my favourite btw. best commander and his diplomacy skills were only matched by Vader. Rebels had the stronger characters, but their much weaker ships always made the Empire the better choice. Man, I need to reinstall this game right away.
you don't need TIE defenders to, uhh, defend it. You just needed enough deployed TIEs to match or outnumber the rebel fighters and prevent them from attacking the Death Star. So, if you just park 30 squadrons of TIEs on whatever planet you have the Death Star, they will automatically be deployed when the rebels enter the system, as opposed to being on the Death Star's hangar and having to launch one at a time when the fleet battle begins. TBH the Death Star is mostly a novelty. I prefer to just focus on fleets with a ratio of 6 frigates to escort one Star Destroyer, only deploying TIEs when the rebels have a significant force. Otherwise I save the TIE squadrons and let the escorts machine gun all the rebel fighters. Hate having to replace totally destroyed TIE squadrons.
To add to NYG5s comment, if you have a Death Star shield it can't be attacked, I only ever built Death Stars for the purpose of power projection, you gain a lot of support in all systems when building one, but lose a lot if used.
2:03 "All the Star Wars music and sound effects and lore just really reminds you of how great Star Wars was before it became trash." Stated in 2013 ... before Star Wars and Lucasfilm got turned into a Mickey Mouse operation ...
Hey PCG, you can speed up the time in multiplayer, but only the host can I think. I understand your complaints about the time system, but I respectfully disagree with them. I find the most annoying part of civ is having to click that next day button every 2 seconds. It makes it a game of just loading and waiting to press it again. In SWR, you can set everything up in very slow, then switch it to slow and keep an eye on things while keeping the game going at a reasonable pace.
A lot of people don't realize the game even has hot-keys since they aren't mentioned anywhere in game, though the manual and read-me does explain them.
ZanathKariashi Yeah, they are in the documentation. The manual is such a beast, and that makes me happy. :-D That might have been the biggest manual I had for a video game.
I would absolutely love if they would remake this game. As long as the requirements stay under 1ghz processor speed and 2gb of ram... (A remake that I can't even play? That would be even worse!)
"This stuff, plus all the Star Wars music and sound effects and lore, just really remind you how great Star Wars was before it became trash" Ouch! And this was even before the newer movies.
Sorry Michael, but EaW is nothing like Rebellion. Units build like an RTS (almost instantly compared to the months it would take in rebellion), ships have to travel along a linear line, artificial restrictions of troop strength on planets. It is not in the spirit of Rebellion at all.
It's interesting how many people are getting mad at me for dissing the prequels. I wonder how many would get mad if I put the new trilogy(at least up to TLJ as the third movie isn't out yet at the time of this post) there instead. The prequels are trash but they are at least entertaining trash that didn't hurt the story as a whole and had well received spin offs(clone wars). The new movies however just totally screws the original main characters.
The sequels are trash because they don't come from G lucas. The prequels are the story of G lucas. he actually imagined it before the OG trilogy, so no you can't shit on that... Good review of the game tho
This was one of the best games of all time IMO. Sure, the graphics are crap compared to stuff now but the content, lore, and replay-ability exceed most games today. Now that Disney owns Star Wars, we will never see another game like this again.
This is one of the few games my dad used to play while i was growing up, i remember watching him play this, and he could sit played through the entire game at once.
Since i didn't understand english by that time, i didn't understand a single thing happening on the screen.
Fast Forward 18 years later, i really want to play the game, i have a couple of 1995 computers so running the game wouldn't be an issue.
Thank you for an informal review.
You can easily buy it on Steam these days. Works like a charm.
The year is 2021. This game is still underrated. And still a blast to play through.
That game...D=
P.S.: You can change time speed by pressing ALT + "+" to speed it up or ALT + "-" to slow it down.
A loyal reboot of this game would be amazing. It is one of my favorite games regardless of the clunky UI and steep learning curve =)
I hope GOG uploads this game soon, I haven't been able to make it work on my machine regardless of my efforts..
Woo! GOG gave me my wish XD
Download it via STEAM. I downloaded it last week and havent stopped playing !
This game was just great and unique. God I liked to have that big fleet with Thrawn as Admiral, Pallaeon as Commander and Jerjerrod as General. I felt like I could take over the whole Alliance all by myself.
i love that game, and i played it A LOT back in the days...but i can´t get it to run nowdays :(
It just got rereleased!
Bill M. thank you VERRY much :) i directly bought it...and its working just fine :)
*****
way to complex to anwer that in a comment. just watch a lets play, or red the manual i guess will do the trick ;-)
I agree about the remake. I have been trying to remember the name of this game since I watched The Force Awakens. I remember spending hours a day not doing homework playing this game lol!
Rebellion was one of the best SW games ever! I still play it
Do you still play
I played this game to death !! best game ever
gog.com is selling this awesome game :D
This was the 2nd game I ever bought, once I saved up enough money. I remember how awesome it was back in the day, and this brought back good memories! You're totally right though, an HD remake with an improved UI and space battles and this would be another instant classic (and something the Star Wars universe really needs, as apparently they don't make good games for it anymore)
I just got it for 3€.
Really good review, no loud and stupid mosh pit music covering up what you were saying and no senseless babbling to fill in the video. I had borrowed the game once for a week back in 99 and loved playing it. Been sort of searching for it on and off since then. Thanks again!
The only major flaw in my opinion was the fact that sometimes you would seemingly conquer the entire galaxy but then would go on an endless chase for one of the main adversaries that you hadn't captured yet.
Thanks for the great review! We need more of this game in our lives
I was playing this earlier today. Still my favourite Star Wars game of all time!
been browsing gog for games and found this game there but was not sure of whether to buy it bc the description and screen shots didnt tell me much. this review was very helpful
best SW game. Not underrated, forgotten.
The best strategy game I have ever played... (well, being a Star Wars fan makes that statement a bit "biased")
A damn good game,but very time consuming like a lot of old PC titles that had great character to them. Despite it's weaknesses, it's still one of my favorite Star Wars games.
This is a great game. Can't wait to play it again.
The shot of the Star Wars chess set was a great touch
Another big problems I had with this game not mentioned in the video:
- Of course you can build the Death Star, which is cool, but it take an insane amount of time and almost half the Empire ressources that could be used to build more ships and troops...
Also, the Death Star is too easy to destroy using X-wings (unless you built a Death Star Shield like the one on Endor) or sabotage with agents like Han Solo/ Chewie, etc...
- A few times, I won as the Empire with only 3-4 Imperial Star Destroyers (You starts the game with none built, if I remember correctly)... We're a bit far from the thousands the Empire is supposed to have, according to the Star War lore...
These and the infamous "Pause-Fast-Pause" explained in the video are the reasons I won't plays this game anymore, even if I have some good memories of it (Specific escape of prisonier heroes, Battles that was too close for comfort, etc...)
If I want my strategic Star Wars fix, I'll play Empire at War (Forces of Corruption)...
you have 2 Star Destroyers always, and occasionally roll up to 4, depending on which of the random planets you were assigned during set-up which increases your initial unit budget.
That's why if you mess with the unit values in the editor, you start with a ridiculous amount of ships, since it rolls your starting units based a budget of your current income after planets are distributed.
GOG now has it available, installs perfectly and RebEd works like a charm if that's a must for you.
good video bro, i remember playing this game when i was a teenager and i've been searching for it for so looong, i need to get it somewhere again.
funny thing to do is accumulate fleets of hundreds of ships and thousands of fighters. I think the largest fleet I ever assembled in once location was 150 ships and 2000 tie fighter squadrons. I would just launch all the fighters like a plague of locusts that ate the enemy fleet.
NYG5 3000 Dark trooper legions from all across the galaxy motherstruckers! And 3 SSD per sector controlled in A huge galaxy.
Occasionally the AI gathers their forces into doomstacks like these. You'll see a bunch of bulk transports show up with endless wookie regiments and it's like, "well, I just hope they're still there when my star destroyers show up to relieve the system"
NYG5 It happened to me in hard the rebels had a fleet as wide as the Battlefield
NYG5 and they attacked Coruscant!
It's always Coruscant. Need 12 regiments of stormtroopers, a general, and 3 shield generators there at all times, minimum.
Loved it. Loved having a red droid who could tell the Emperor what to do, too :)
LOVED this game, only flaw imo was that it was not turn based. had to set the time settings on slowest to manage everything.
There is a new board game that is based on this system. Cool video!
I used to play this on very short campaign (only capture Coruscant or the Rebel Base), trying to get it done as quickly as possible and naming my ships after the naming conventions from the movies. Like my first Calamari cruiser would be the Home One etc.
I also got this game a couple of years after I first heard and read the Thrawn trilogy which gave many of the new characters so much more context.
Playing it right now as I type, Vader just took out chewbacca and next captured Han in what I imagine to be in some Dramatic rage on Han's part. 30 days later Vader was in the same system as luke, so they fought and I caught him. Vader took luke to the Emperor for the Final Confrontation and Luke escaped while capturing Vader and the Emperor while on Coruscant and with the Imperial Fleet in Orbit. Karma's a bitch.
How did you record SW rebellion?
I can't it with bandicam or Fraps
From watching this it really reminds me of master of orion. Is it somewhat comparable?
By the way, this an quite a few other star wars games are on steam now (so they'll be compatible with windows vista, 7, 8 and 10 ;) and there's the humble bundle offer this week. So you may be interested.
+peter hope Yeah I got it. Good bundle.
+pcgheroes cool, I got the first four of them. Didn't realize the games were nearly 20 years old though :s
Hopefully I can still enjoy them though, as I grew up playing spectrums and Commodores. Can you recommend which of the four would be the best to start with?..perhaps this one?
+peter hope also (you probs already know, but just incase) the other bundle still available is really great. Two of the games, outlast, and never alone are fantastic games, and you get a 75% discount on the outbreak add on,...the whistleblower, which works out about one pound sixty👍🏻 there's also another game that I haven't played that comes with it that looks really fun. Some type of retro GTA style game, that has a lot of nostalgia in it from old titles 😀🕹
Liked & subbed your channel. This was a great insight to the game. Looking forward to watching some of your other material
+peter hope I only got the first four in the star wars one as well since I already own kotor. I pretty much just got them for X-wing vs Tie Fighter(since I remember having fun messing with that when I was younger) and of course a steam version of this game, SW Rebellion. The other two I haven't tried yet, so I can't comment on them.
Its June 2020, the world is in a lockdown from covid 19 and I am trying to snuff out a rebellion. What a time to be alive
Do you think we will ever see a remastered version of this game?
Any expansions? Excellent review I agree with you
i actually miss this game... childhood... hehe
'before it became trash' oh boy did that age well
frankly the combat has more depth than most "strategy" games now adays
in fact this game only needs some minor enhancements and an HD remake and i would buy it in 2 seconds
In the UK it was called Star wars Supremacy
The cut-scenes are classic Star Wars.
For the issue with the speed, i use "strg"+"+" or "-", that controls the rime also. So i don't have to move the mouse up there and keep my hands on the keyboard. It's become no hassle since then.
this game is avaliable on GOG, and that's great, because once you figure out its confusing menus (helps being fan of Firaxis and specially Paradox games to understand its mechanics) it holds up pretty well despite its age. It's a bit limited and repetitive compared to the best of the genre, but being an StarWars game makes it awesome. A must for fans of both, stategy games and StarWars.
with ALT+(+ or -) you can change the speed of the game without clicking
Busted out my CD after watching a lets play. I agree. Not sure if Hotkeys were even an idea yet, but they would have been great for the "stop-start" style of this game.
To get it running on Windows 7 you will need both Windows Virtual PC and Virtual Windows XP. Both of which are free downloads for Win 7 users.
For the Windows Virtual PC - www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3702
For the Windows XP mode - www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8002
Edit: I notice that someone says the "Alt" and "+/-" keys are hotkeys for speed. Awesome find!
Oh yeah. Be prepared for a tiny play-window. The game is like 640 x 480 max resolution.
This is probably the only game that I will play until the end of my life since it can run on a potato and it's so deep and full of star wars lore.
One of the best Star Wars games ever for content, though the game does start to slow down about midpoint.
Are there any other games like this!? Movie themed strategy that's worthy playing?
man i love this game
You can buy it on GOG. I downloaded it on Windows 10 on my Toshiba
It is now available on steam!!! But they didn’t update the multiplayer options 😐
Yep, this is on Gog.com now! picked it up for 6 dollars! rusn fine!
Hi, very good review... one question, how do you recorded the game footage?
Probably FRAPS
GOG.com has it now. And you can speed up time if needs should arise.
SS2 soundtrack at the end. I don't get how anyone can claim to dislike that soundtrack. It was very atmospheric for me.
Hello there. Did you play in the zone ? I am Gunships69 heheeee
How did you get it to work?
My favorite PC game hands down.
its on gog now
"Before it became trash" *me expecting to see an image of the sequels not realizing this video is 9 years old 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I still have copy on my PC. For me this game have THE BEST multiplayer 1vs1!
They really need to remake this game. I was eight when this game out, boy this and X -Wing vs Tie Fighter were awesome games. If they would remake this game, it would definitely increase and re-spark the Star Wars magic.
this was such a good game
i loved that game
this was one of the best games i have ever played. graphically not brilliant but game play and strategy is one of the best to date IMHO. ive had some great multi player games. . other games similar which i also liked was Birth of the Federation. similar with a slightly better space battle system although it was also very clunky and limited tactically
Getting into the game is somewhat hard due to the lack of a tutorial, but beyond that this game is simply great. Never understood how Lucasarts can make these wonders like Rebellion and TIE Fighter and just forget they exist.
Paul Ketcham It had tutorials (very in depth and a lot of them), but they were all in manual rather then the game itself.
ZanathKariashi Yeah, the ones where you'd just turn the game on and try different stuff out in regular matches.
I played this a lot back on its release and while it does have quite a few good points, it also has a badly designed UI. You have to mirco-manage your resources, manufacturing, characters, etc. at each planet. There are no overall control panels for each aspect of the gameplay. Loved the use of the John Williams music and that there was no single 'frontline', as each planet can be attacked individually and that makes things very tense at times. The cut-scenes were excellent and it was of course 'Star Wars' which compensated for some limitations and flaws.
it's all easier to manage if you build up each planetary system to be rather self sufficient.
Each planet with super high energy will just farm shipyards, construction, and barracks, with the rest just being refineries and mines. In the late game, you can just have systems devoted all to resources, and just park shield generators and cheap troops to delay enemy raiders until you can send reinforcements.
I loved this game
I still have this game... and I've spent tons of hours on it :) In some ways I still prefer it over other SW strategy games...
In multiplayer, you can increase the speed, and you can save :)
yeah there was like a house rules where you would message the opponent to agree on time settings
i love that game!!!!
I don't know if you've heard of it or not but Star Wars Empire at War is really similar to this game and is sort of more modern version of it.
2:31 i never noticed that he is missing the visor on his cap
Looks a lot like one of those stupid First Order officer caps.
How do you download the game
You can get the game on Steam for pretty cheap and it's been updated to run on Windows 10.
I still play this game now and again. I prefer the imperials, though rebels have their own unique flavor.
I played it in multiplayer with a friend once. We decided not to attack each other for 500 days, build enormous fleets and then send all ships into battle at once. It was so slow that it was not even close to get decided after 2 hours, then we just decided to quit.
Def need a modern update
But doesn't "Star Wars: Empire at war" fill your bill? It got space cpmbat, economics, and ground combats. Mods also add story elements to the GC mode.
That was a good review
Just about to mention the same thing here too! XD Also, there is an expansion for EAW called Forces of Corruption. I LOVE the story for that!
yeah a remake ofthis game would be awesome. i found the difficulty too easy. though.
Try empire at war. There's no game like this, but it's the closest, the simplest, and is still pretty active with a massive modding community.
RAsplez 98 I think the same thing but is not the same, the amount of ships and ground units are lame compared to rebellion... And the missions don't forget the missions are awesome
Nico Manancero that's why you use mods.
RAsplez 98 yeah I use some try to upgrade the units but wasn't the same and the mission mechanics can't be replicated with mods aren't they?
Worst thing in the game was having a death star but no tie defenders yet, because a sole x-wing would come along and destroy that "ultimate battle station" like no big deal. there was no bloody way but having 13 tie defenders in the death star hangars to defend it.
But the vast amount of lore alone was worth the money. Definitely would buy an hd remake with improved battle system and ui. but then again, today it would most likely be centered around all the wrong parts of the star wars universe.
Thrawn was always my favourite btw. best commander and his diplomacy skills were only matched by Vader. Rebels had the stronger characters, but their much weaker ships always made the Empire the better choice.
Man, I need to reinstall this game right away.
you don't need TIE defenders to, uhh, defend it. You just needed enough deployed TIEs to match or outnumber the rebel fighters and prevent them from attacking the Death Star.
So, if you just park 30 squadrons of TIEs on whatever planet you have the Death Star, they will automatically be deployed when the rebels enter the system, as opposed to being on the Death Star's hangar and having to launch one at a time when the fleet battle begins.
TBH the Death Star is mostly a novelty. I prefer to just focus on fleets with a ratio of 6 frigates to escort one Star Destroyer, only deploying TIEs when the rebels have a significant force. Otherwise I save the TIE squadrons and let the escorts machine gun all the rebel fighters. Hate having to replace totally destroyed TIE squadrons.
To add to NYG5s comment, if you have a Death Star shield it can't be attacked, I only ever built Death Stars for the purpose of power projection, you gain a lot of support in all systems when building one, but lose a lot if used.
I bought it on steam when the complete star wars bundle was on sale but this game is complicated whne you first play it lol
beach i was pwning in this game when i was 12...
i can play this for hours and hours
2:03 "All the Star Wars music and sound effects and lore just really reminds you of how great Star Wars was before it became trash."
Stated in 2013 ... before Star Wars and Lucasfilm got turned into a Mickey Mouse operation ...
same here.
It's on GOG now :) www.gamespot.com/articles/more-drm-free-classic-star-wars-pc-games-arrive-on/1100-6424820/
Yup just noticed that today. Hopefully that means it's easy to run now.
This game is the grandfather of Empire at War
Hey PCG, you can speed up the time in multiplayer, but only the host can I think. I understand your complaints about the time system, but I respectfully disagree with them. I find the most annoying part of civ is having to click that next day button every 2 seconds. It makes it a game of just loading and waiting to press it again. In SWR, you can set everything up in very slow, then switch it to slow and keep an eye on things while keeping the game going at a reasonable pace.
You can accelerate and decelerate time with ALT+ +/-, and you can pause with ALT+P.
A lot of people don't realize the game even has hot-keys since they aren't mentioned anywhere in game, though the manual and read-me does explain them.
ZanathKariashi Yeah, they are in the documentation. The manual is such a beast, and that makes me happy. :-D That might have been the biggest manual I had for a video game.
I would absolutely love if they would remake this game. As long as the requirements stay under 1ghz processor speed and 2gb of ram... (A remake that I can't even play? That would be even worse!)
"This stuff, plus all the Star Wars music and sound effects and lore, just really remind you how great Star Wars was before it became trash"
Ouch!
And this was even before the newer movies.
2:03 that jab sure aged like blue milk
homie why you bash ep 1-3
It's on steam
Sorry Michael, but EaW is nothing like Rebellion. Units build like an RTS (almost instantly compared to the months it would take in rebellion), ships have to travel along a linear line, artificial restrictions of troop strength on planets. It is not in the spirit of Rebellion at all.
2:08
In 2022 i assume there should be picture of Disney shitquels.
how old are you?
It's interesting how many people are getting mad at me for dissing the prequels. I wonder how many would get mad if I put the new trilogy(at least up to TLJ as the third movie isn't out yet at the time of this post) there instead. The prequels are trash but they are at least entertaining trash that didn't hurt the story as a whole and had well received spin offs(clone wars). The new movies however just totally screws the original main characters.
The sequels are trash because they don't come from G lucas. The prequels are the story of G lucas. he actually imagined it before the OG trilogy, so no you can't shit on that... Good review of the game tho
Steam says I've played 315 hours. Just on STEAM. That's not from when I was a kid or college.
This was one of the best games of all time IMO. Sure, the graphics are crap compared to stuff now but the content, lore, and replay-ability exceed most games today. Now that Disney owns Star Wars, we will never see another game like this again.
Glad to see it on GOG.com to play again.