STA3 A Call To Arms 1.2.2 news - Star Trek: Armada 3 mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion

Fed Pimping...101 the history

So basically the Feds have an issue where historically they were used as our balancing faction, aka we cross balance their ships and fleets against all others to achieve balance, but balance itself is a game of chasing ones tail because the truth is there is no nirvana and someone always with this many variables involved finds a way to exploit something somewhere, in fact as weve said before some players don’t like our vision for Star Trek because Star Trek is personal to so many and the TV Shows didn’t really express the strengths and weaknesses of each ship technologically.

Our federation vessels overall are not that bad in fact there are some really good vessels in the fleet for example the sovereign class and defiant classes but I was not happy with how games were playing out in truth I find the federation faction to be well boring…

So how do we inject some tactical gameplay and excitement back into the federation, well that’s simple we look at both ship stats and abilities and also a unique twist in how we utilise carriers in our game.

The Galaxy Class!

The Galaxy Class felt at low level that it just wasn’t tough enough in comparison to its counterparts and its refit felt lacklustre in terms of damage output, what we’ve done is increased the toughness of the initial galaxy to give it a much needed durability boost, we’ve also gone ahead and upped the re-fire rate of the refit quantum torpedoes, famous for firing its torpedo spreads due to its special torpedo launcher it made sense to up its damage by way of the torp! So when you fly a galaxy now you get the satisfaction of feeling the output of them when in your fleet.

The Nebula and Phoenix Class!

Some may not know this but the Nebula variants were and still are my favourite all time federation ships, myself and Maximus have had debate after debate at which ship performs better Nebula or Galaxy in fact this titanic argument culminated in equal admiration for both ships, we see the Nebula variants throughout star trek films and history, cheaper to build than the Galaxy class vessels but capable of adaptation by way of the unique mission pods available, some say she is a throwback to the connie/miranda, we saw her in Voyager hunting the prometheus and in many DS9 battles you get a feel for this ships multi role platform.

So game wise it’s made sense to look at both variants, they are already pretty tough as far as capital vessels go but I really felt that we needed to go back and look at their scientific abilities to this point they’ve actually become better with increased durations and better scaling per level, the single target ability disabler is now able to at max level disable an enemy vessels abilities for around 26 seconds and can also target dreadnought class vessels (no shockwaveing my fleet thank you)

The Prometheus Class!

Or the, why won’t you build this beautiful ship in your fleet, my answers came back in droves from various players, too slow, lack of fleet role, lack of game role, felt sluggish.

So I really had to think about her, it’s hard to squeeze her in as a front line ship with the makeup of the average federation fleet, and then it occurred to me, I wanted to give the federation something that could be used in conjunction with the very nimble defiant, so we’ve increased the speed of the Prometheus and she is now as fast as the defiant class vessels and on par with Jem Hadar speeds, we’ve also up gunned her MVAM damage and increased her armour so she really packs a punch but can now be used as a harasser in enemy systems to whittle down research stations.

The Typhon Class

She was the first love of the carrier classes and the best carrier in the game she’s had a significant increase to her ability to spew fighters gaining a new type of squadron unique to carrier ships called elite fighters, this means with a full load out of Valkyrie Bombers (MK2’s) in the bay she was able despite being destroyed herself to take out a fully upgraded neghvar class and that’s one tough ship! So yes hopefully this will encourage some fed players to build more carriers in the game.

And for my last part of this update (cruisers will follow in a separate news article along with stations soon)

The Dreadnoughts!

The Excalibur Class!

The Excalibur was the first and relatively untouched since version 1.0 she didn’t get built as much as I would of liked so we’ve really had to look at why, astonishingly her overall abilities cost was far too high being a throwback to version 1.0, we’ve halved the antimatter cost of all her abilities which drastically affects the whole fleet, not only now is she tough but she can pump out her support abilities more than before giving the entire fleet more time in combat, she really is the defacto defensive option for fed fleets, I know I will be building her!

The Polaris Class!

The Polaris class is a beautiful model by Wiley, totally unique to the Armada 3 environment but you don’t get the feeling of her science abilities so again we’ve looked at that and we have tweaked various abilities such as her Mannheim effect, excitingly she can now freeze time as before but due to a special Mannheim link the federation fleet is immune to the sub space distortions generated essentially all federation vessels now phase of time however due to the power involved unlike the Polaris which has the generator can only reposition their vessels in the local solar system and are unable to fire, however this does mean the federation can use this ability to escape potentially dangerous situations, even more interesting is that sadly due to your potential allies not having the consoles they are sadly still frozen not that the federation would let their allies get destroyed…right…right?

So this is but a taste of some of the changes! And were not done yet, this is turning out to be a might update! Not just bug fixes! So sit back relax and wait patiently because I can promise you it’s worth the wait!