Fleet Operations: Roots is a total conversion of the Fleet Operations project, itself a mod of the popular space-based RTS game Star Trek Armada II, which in turn was the successor to Star Trek Armada. To celebrate the re-release of Star Trek Armada II on GOG.com, version 3.0 of this mod brings many fixes and improvements, most notably 3 fully original single player campaigns with a total of 19 missions. You get to play as, and against, every one of the 6 factions in the game. For several missions you get to choose the faction you want to play them as. Roots aims to keep most of what made Fleet Operations and Star Trek Armada II great while also returning a bit of the atmosphere of Star Trek Armada I. A rock-paper-scissors system, combined with a smaller number of ship classes and build limits on capital ships make each ship useful, even during the late game. The Cardassians are also back into the game as a fully playable faction where Fleet Ops left them out. Enjoy!
The Root's mod is one of the best mods out there for the Armada 2 Fleet Operations mod (yes, a mod of a mod haha). Root's gives you a lot of stuff you love from Fleet Ops but brings back some of the great stuff that FO took out such as the Cardassians and the Romulan/Reman Scimitar. Many other new things have been added, everything's been reblanced, and there's been numerous other improvements in all areas. This new version 2.0 release includes a story campaign which is something a lot of us hoped would be added to regular FO one day but didn't happen. You can see me playing an older version of this mod at the 41:56 mark in the Fleet Operations tour video below:
Honestly amazing done. It brings new life to fleetops while keeping core ideas we loved in Armada 2. The real spirit successor to Armada 1. This mod will surely age well, a mod you can keep coming back to after months and just play it. It has a easy learning curves, with a easily rock paper scissors type balance system. Did I mention the most important of all, it has a custom campaign that is voiced!!!
Incredibly unbalanced and broken, even on the easiest settings the AI will magically get infinite resources and immediately build infinite ships and overwhelm you.
Absolutely no strategy at all, just a race to see who can build the most starships first and spam the other player with them.
Really hoped this would be great but its not worth the time.
Nostalgia incarnate in all the best ways.