But if the enemy does manage to destroy those shields then oh man are you in for a world of hurt. It has one of the best implementations of sabotaging opposing infrastructure I can think of - but counter to that it is also possible to turn a planet into a fortress that literally nothing can get through - triple shields, heavy laser cannons, enough troops to fill a super stardestroyer and a good general and you've got something that the enemy will never get through. I loved this game as a kid, to the point that I can still hear the voice of the emperor & mon mothma when they inevitably failed in their diplomatic missions. When I saw the name of this episode I looked up from chair in my parents home to see star war empire at war : forces of corruption the shelf over their pc which I briefly played years ago and remembered really liking the stragetic layer and not caring at all for the more prominent RTS aprt so I will definitely be picking up rebellion. From what I heard on the podcast Attila total war does this with the western roman empire but is there a 4x equivalent ? No hearts and minds through and it's from the insurgent side.Īlso is there any strategy games where you start with alot of non-renewable/ hard resources but over time they are whittled down as the original size of your empire. It's a game where trying to play it as a traditional 4x will see you lose very quickly and the amount of expansion you want to do is as little as possible to destroy the AI home worlds while having a decent layer of worlds to defend your own homeworld from the AI attacks.

Rob mentioned how few insurgency/counter insurgency games there are and would AI: Fleet command fit into that model.

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