http://swmods.swrebellion.com/wiki/Starship_Compendium

It's a wiki, so the format may be weird. But we have an extensive template system and hopefully we can get this updated with all the latest sources

I've added a few of the Empire at War ships. Follow the format and you should be fine

You! Give me my pizza! NAO!

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1. Graphics

2. Playablilty

3. Storyline

4. Sound Effects

5. Interest level

and state your honest opinion of the game's Learning curve.

(i will do it later if no one else is willing.) Please also create a seperate overview of the Expansion.

Aggressor Destroyer

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B-Wing

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X-Wing

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Acclamator Assault Ship

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Kedalbe Battleship

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I have already starting to call the T4-B a mammoth tank, because that what it looks like.  Since most of Petro did come from Westwood, and there was a mammoth in all the classic C&C games. Also the mammoth used missiles and dual cannon.

I call the MPTL-2A a Medusa from the smoke trails the torpedoes make.

Yeah I know the two above nicknames are not Star Wars related, but it's just what comes to mine.  I still need a good nickname for the T2-B.  Lets see what we can come up with.

i kinda lost intrest in eaw since before foc came out well im back and i like it

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I just bought EaW, and am totally hooked.......I'm playing as the Empire in single player...new campaign. I have control of all but 8 planets.

Two questions now

1 -  I don't have any option to build a research facility anywhere on any planet under my rule...so how can I upgrade my tech please? as i am limited in what spaceships I can build.... I have some space stations at level 4, most are at level 3 but one wont go past level 1.

THIS IS THE ONE THATS DRIVING ME NUTS THO....

2 - I have been on this mission for a couple of days now...( and been thro several forums in the quest for help)

I'm on the mission where I have to "Build a fleet, locate and defeat Moff Kalast"

I have done so, played and won the space and land battles.......(not using auto resolve either)

but although the "system" is now under my rule....I haven't completed the mission.

Where did Kalast go?

I read on this forum he ends up at Wayland.....but I cant find him....and going back to the first question ...I don't have the Interdicter Cruiser cos my technology isn't high enough

Can anyone please help me on this...... ???

Thanks in advance......Master-Illusionist

where do you people hide your custom units?

I've been rummaging around filefront, where I usually get mods for any kind of game, and I can't even seem to find extra units there.

Surely they're up for grabs somewhere? I know there's an AT-TE out there somewhere, but I figured "I'll come back for it in a minute" and I can't find that one anymore either.

It's probably because I'm getting old... Pretty soon I'll be asking people where I live.

You see, while I'm working on solving my Death Star problem in my Imperal campaign I figured I'd do something else in the game and the Rebel campaign just doesn't do it for me. So I figured I'd take the Imperials on a Galactic Conquest, but I wanna bring some extra units.

So what do you have to do to submit your maps to us? Please put them in a zip file, and send them to eaw_map-project@rts-community.com . Make sure you have checked your maps for bugs and if all is working fine, because it won't come into one of the packs if we find any bugs. Please give us your Name (real or nickname) in the eMail so we can credit you as creator of your map.

Lets support the community with amazing ground fights and stunning space battles!

cheers

Chris

got a quick question. What can you do when the enemy has a fleet in orbit on every planet you own ? (I still control the ground)

In Rebellion, you could sabotage starships, but I don't know how I can still play when this happens.

This can be a very effective strategy if not "counterable".

Thanks.

At first, I believed this to be a difficulty issue. I played my first few conquests on easy and therefore, I figured, the enemy was staying low tech to facilitate that ease.

I am now playing a medium difficulty conquest as the rebels on the 43 planet galactic map. By default this map starts at Tech three but, I went into the advanced options and turned it down to Tech one (I like starting from scratch).

I am now in the day 40-50 range and all the Empire has ever sent after me is Acclamators and Tarten Cruisers in space, and AT-STs, Tie Maulers, and Infantry on the ground. I am pretty sure all of that is Tech 1 Stuff. They also do not have anything greater than a level 2 station anywhere, which I believe is also an indication that the Empire has not progressed passed Tech 1.

I am fully teched up at this point and very surprised that on medium difficulty I was able to finish my tech tree before my AI opponent has really even begun. Not to mention the fact that I am tired of seeing Acclamators. My space conflicts have zero variety. I am dying to pit my Mon Cals against some SD’s. (the enemy still has both Kuat and Fondor)

Is there something I am missing here? I am not usually someone that would be considered good at this type of game so medium difficulty is usually about right for me. Perhaps in this case I need to jump up to hard, but in my experience that level of difficulty is usually pretty insane.

Is anyone else noticing that the AI seems to tech up rather slowly (at least, on easy-medium difficulties)?

Note: This is game sales at Best Buy only, still pretty impressive.

According to this Best Buy's website it also says the game is still $49.99 and the price hasn't dropped yet. That usually means the sales are still going strong.

When FoC comes out it will most likely reach the top 10 again too.

1. it is actually a game were you can play a campaign against someone else without getting bored to death waiting,

i can not even possibly overstate that ! 

2. Nice skirmish multiplayer with fun teamplay.

DOWNs.:

1. AI is among the worst i have seen in strategy games since C&C Red Alert.

--> Singleplayer fun: about 5-8 hours per campaign + 2-4 hours per galactic conquest.

2. I personally would have liked a more deep going strategy game but that would have made UP 1. impossible(one has to set priorities)

3. The engine is made for few units on the field (Personally i like it that way because its more tactics but its just strange to have an entire fleet against few enemies and only a few of my units are showing up)

If you got substantial add-ons please go ahead. (Please no "Unit XYZ is too strong")

Its A Planetary Turbolaser

http://www.stardestroyer.net/tlc/Cannons/plandef.gif

So Is this a Plagerised Design or what??

but now I have it. I got for half price a mere $20 rather than the $40-$50 it still costs in most stores. I didn't get a used copy or off ebay. I got it from best buy. but that is not important. Now you get the Cheeseinator's review for a game that I hated so much cause it was stupid.

but first.........

Background info.

Way back when on Lucasarts when EAW was first introduced. I looked at the screen shots, and LAUGHED. They SUCKED. Explosions that looked like reeses puffs or cheese curds, star destroyers with little texture, and my personal favorite... The 2 storm troopers running in front of an AT-AT. They were pointy and their guns were little more that black textureless toilet paper tubes. My conclusion, the game sucked. I posted about it and the long argument that eventually ended up in a "flame war". More screen shots came in and I laughed some more. mostly at the bad scaling. Darth Vader was about 3 feet shorter than an AT-ST and storm troopers were at least a head taller than the tanks. As time went on I mocked, complained, and bashed several things about the game. I said it had horrible graphics, bad scaling, no space battles on a 3D plane, nothing new, etc, etc, etc. By about the end of the flame war i ran out of things to complain about. Eventually it erupted into ghostly substance and I throwing insults at each other. This was back in like 2005. Here are some fun quotes from back then.

Cheese and his gang piss me and everybody else off. They never give up on harassing and banning wont do anything so call the FBI and take his computer away 

theres nothing good on there now its mainly Cheesinator (who needs banning from the Internet completely) and the rest that whine and moan because there games aren't as great as promised.

And others that I can't dig out from there because Lucasarts deleted all my posts and anything that had to do with my posts. Anyway eventually Lucasarts got moderators that made sure that there was no flame around. Then I used loopholes to my advantage and flamed EAW other members but in a discreet way as to not get banned. If you read through this post here this happend to be an instance where several people wanted me to be banned but i won the day because technically I didn't do anything wrong. (my posts in there were deleted but you can easily see what I said in it)

http://forums.lucasarts.com/thread.jspa?threadID=92921&start=0

After a while I infiltrated this forum PFF in hopes of causing as much discontent and discord among here as I did in Lucasarts. But I knew I had to be careful here the members are more attuned and intelligent than the idiotic mods at lucasarts. I kinda was a annoying my first month or so here under the name Beowulf. I came close to crossing the line several times but never did. Eventually however I came to see this site populated by mostly intelligent members and moderators who didn't ban at a whim. So on lucasarts I slacked off on the Flaming of EAW and other people. I inserted a few snide comments about the game here and there but then I ignored it after a while. Eventually when I had driven most of you away from lucasarts I mellowed out a bit for a long time at lucasarts and became a regular poster on lucasarts. I was mistakenly banned once in a sock sweep by the mods but the dark moose recognized the mistake and unbanned me. So I was just being a good person for a while. But alas' it was not to be. The moderators finally got me on hugely trumped up chargers. I was banned for posting a topic in the SWBF2 board about "How to have fun and piss off other people in space battles". The topic was immensely popular but Catch 22 said I was banned for saying "piss off"   :-\ Then began what I like to call "The Cheeseinator's Trial" You could look over it on the Lucasarts boards but every single post of mine and other's associated with them are now deleted. Anyway the trial went on for about 3 weeks. I argued with Catch 22. I pointed out that the mods were cussing their heads off but I got banned for saying piss of?! It went on and on and eventually the final verdict was that I was banned for "rude words and other stuff"...................... other stuff?! @#$% Catch 22 he is going to moderator Hell. After a year or so I came back every now and then and asked if I could get unbanned. They didn't even respond..... I even asked Fosh if I could be unbanned when he became a mod on that site but he just ignored me. Eventually I forgot about EAW and focused on making lucasarts a hell hole by making endless accounts. Most have been banned but there are a few still active on Lucasarts even at this very moment...... In the meantime I stayed on these boards and saw the good in EAW.....

Okay, that was fun now for my EAW review.

First Impressions:

  I have only had the game for few days now so I can't publish my whole review just yet. But my first impressions are good ones. First I started out with just doing skirmish battles. I had several memorable battles that I hugely enjoyed the first few times. With my new computer I was able to pump up the graphics really high and EAW looks real good on high graphics. They fixed several things that I hated in the demo. The Heroes aren't as overpowered to the extent that they can single handedly win a battle like in the demo I like that each unit has a special ability and by using them right can greatly diversify the battles. The AI is not too easy (not yet anyway) I still struggle against medium AI. Resources are simple and efficient by getting money instead of each individual resource. The sound effects are excellent and bring back good old memories of the original trilogy. It has nice feel too. It feels like you really are playing a star wars game (unlike SWBF2).

I'll elaborate on the good things later cause it's late and I'm really tired right now but here are the bad things:

-Pop cap is way too small for my tastes in skirmish battles

-Rebels are overpowered but not as much as I'd thought they'd be

Those are the only two serious things that I don't like about the game so far.

bad things that are trivial

-lack of.....variety every space level has several nebula's and asteroid fields

-made up units, again no huge problem but I'd rather see canon ships like the lancer frigate instead of the tartan. And the Ineptly name "broadside cruiser" and the fake assault frigate

-scale still, someone has told me that you can change the scale but I don't have clue how too.

The thing that really bugs me is the "balance". They went too far with the balance issue, even to the point of unrealistic-ness. ATATs destroy tanks in a matter of seconds but it takes longer to kill a group of infrantry. Same with the snowspeeders too, they destroy light vehicles in nothing flat but they will take all day to kill troopers. That is really unrealistic. I know that some vehicles are'nt designed to kill troopers but surely lasers that can blast through tanks can instantly kill troops scattering them in every direction like in battlefront. However there is one unit that defies this... The seemingly invincible rebel aretillery. They destroy anything with ease and then pack up and outrun AT-STs and kill troopers by making roadkill out of them.

It's not even as if it would be impractical, I believe that due to the timescale of the game, experience seems even more essential than in other games, which are conducted in a scale infinitely smaller than EAW. Why can't my cruisers that have survived many engagements have an advantage over mass produced "green" units? Even for fighter units, experienced pilots would surely boost effectiveness and survivability?

Does anyone share my disappointment or is the consensus one of satisfaction?

James.