[thurm]

I just finished a total Star Wars game using the Shipsets from Kuat Ship Yards along with the Ship Names for the Empire and the Alliance. I used The Rebels, Darth Vader and his shipset as the Imperial Order, the Emporer and his set as the Sith, the third empire set with that blue faced guy, the Trade Federation from Episode 1, and teh Black Sun set. It was cool!! I customed the 5000 point racial types as best as I could guess. I also made a few changes to the settings, made pop harder to kill, lowered the number of black holes (to many ships get sucked in if you don't move them yourselves each turn) and nebulas, increased production values, etc. We were all in partnerships until the tech had gone a fair ways up. It ended up being the Rebels(me) vs. Darth Vader's clan. I kicked the AI's butt, (of course, who couldn't?) with the tactic of Warp In,create Black Hole, Warp Out. With movements of 12, you can do it in one turn. It almost takes the fun out of it, if you weren't creating a gigantic BLACK HOLE to totally destroy everything in their home system, that is. I'd get the force concentration report, warp in, enemy fleet bye-bye. I had higher tech by that time, and the AI hadn't constructed any system black hole/nebula shield facilities. Anyway, it was fun to have a strickly Star Wars game.

SEIV is great, I hope that they fill it out more, more techs, and better AI use of existing techs, and more AI routines besides just agressive, neutral, or defensive.

Thurm