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Let's play.. Empire At War?
2009-03-21, 10:34 PM #1
Once upon a time a nerd had an idea, in his basement, at 3AM. The idea was that he would go onto Massassi and create a thread in the ISB, the purpose of thread was to create sort of a "Choose your own story" with Empire at War.

Some background: Empire At War is a game created by Lucas Arts. EAW is much like rebellion, However it has had the subtle gameplay elements removed such as; sending heroes on missions, Spying (For the most part anyway), and planets are connected VIA hyper space lanes (Meaning that if you don't control all the planets leading TO coruscaunt, you can't go there). However the battles are massively improved and I find it an even trade off, although some people disagree.

What i am going to try to do here is have YOU make the major decisions (What to build, where to conquer, etc) while i fight the battles. Hopefully we can bring peace to a shattered galaxy, or crush it under our boot!

The first decision we have to make is whether we are to play with the Expansion (Which adds a third faction, The Zahn Consortium. who are a criminal sindicate that spreads corruption and crime across the galaxy, they play very differently then the Rebels or Imperials.)

Next we have to choose our factiom:
Alliance to Restore the Republic- They mostly deal in smaller ships and starfigters, have the strongest starfights in the game and later on get Mon Calamari starships to challenge the Imperials bigger ships. Ground forces are mostly infantry with light or heavy tank support.

The Galactic Empire- We all know them, evil. They deal in large starships like Imperial class Star Destroyers and even at the beggining of the game have the Victory class that can wipe the floor with anything else. For starfighters they deal with just throwing lots of cannon fodder at the enemy (They don't even have the option of buying extra starfighters, they just come with the big ships) and hoping a cloud of TIEs will overwhelm the enemy. On the ground the rush of stormtroopers followed by light tanks is the general tactic; They have the biggest and baddest ground vehicle (The AT-AT).
Can build Death Stars.

The Zahn Consortium (If we go for the expansion)
The Zahn Consortium is a group of criminals headed by Tyber Zahn. They have very specialized space units developed by the Mandalorians, these include; A ship with a giant cannon on the front, a ship with an EVEN BIGGER cannon on the front, starfighters with Buzz Droids, and their space stations have gigantic cannons on top. On the ground they have the usual light infantry However they also have Droidekas that they found just lieing around somewhere, and they have some gigantic cannons that can rip apart an AT-AT in seconds. They also have the ability to; corrupt systems and siphon off funds, launch piracy raids, set up a massive spy network, and IG-88 is very good at killing heroes.

Once this is decided we get to pick the map (Big, Little, Thrawn Campaign, and some others i will go into detail later.)

So, what will it be? Free the galaxy, Crush the Rebellion, Or steal everything?

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