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 - Prepare for battle!Star Trek Conquest is what many board game players would call a beer and pretzel game. Like RISK or Axis & Allies the game has been streamlined and made easy to play. Things move swiftly and sometimes you find yourself ending your turn without doing a thing. I played one campaign as the Klingon Empire and really enjoyed it. The game is simple. You start out with one planet and must expand your power over neighboring systems to increase your wealth and develop new technology. Yet you only have three fleets to do it with. That's the max. Three fleets. My game went in three stages. The first was the peaceful expansion. Which means I had to invade planets that were not yet ruled by any of the other empire BUT still had defenders. Not very good defenders but still had defenses. By the time I was blocked by the other empires I had the most planets AND all fleets were guarding important bottle neck systems. In that I had three entry points into my Empire, which made it easy to defend. The second stage was me watching the other empire invade each other while I waited and grew richer. I was waiting for my moment. And it soon came. The Dominion took the home systems of the Breen and the Romulan, then the Cardassians took the Dominion home system. I waited till almost everybody but the Cardassians were down to one or two fleets. Then I launched the third stage, my all out attack, blocking the Cardassian fleets with two of mine while attacking the other fleets. Weak, and without the ability to replace their Admirals, they soon fell to me. As for the reviewer who says the United Federation of Planets were not meant to be about war, you are so right. The humans were one of the first to fall to my mighty warships, their homes burning, their women and children taken as slaves, their men cursing in vain as we turned their civilization into ruins. BUWAHAHAHAHAHA! Rating: - Review Of Star Trek: ConquestThis is an enjoyable game once you get the hang of it. At first I thought it was boring, then the more I played it, the better it became. There are a few things that I feel they could have done to improve the game. The first thing the developers could have done to improve the game would be to include more races to play as in the "Campaign" section of the game, i.e. the Borg, the Xindi, etc. A second improvement would be to have the game play a little bit more like the PC game Star Trek Armada, where you see the ships lying from point to point instead of seeing an icon of a ship moving on the map screen. The only time you get to see the ships is when you are in a battle (if the game doesn't make you do a sim for the battle) or if you play a "Skirmish" game. A third improvement would be for the the game designers to have included some of the original cast members to do the voice overs for their characters, such as using Jeffery Combs for Weyoun, J.G. Hertzler for General Martok, Marc Alamo for Gul Dukat, etc. Another improvment would be to incled more ships to use during the "Campaign" section of the game, such as the Federation ships that you unlock for the "Skirmish" section. This game could also use a 2 player feature, especially in the "Skirmish" section. That would make the game more challenging than it is in the "Skirmish" section. I can beat that area with no problem, no matter how I have it set up. Overall, even with the few things that I feel could be improved upon, this game is fun. Rating:  - Klingons kick asteroids!Overall a pretty decent game. The good: 1: Easy to learn.2.Simple control. 3:Each race has its strengths and weaknesses. 4: Star Trek at war! The bad: 1: After a couple games, starts to lack depth. 2: Races are unbalanced, Klingons dominate. 3: Federation just as war-like as other races. The ugly: Why is the Wii version twice as much? Rating:  - Bethesda should be embarassedI am a 4X strategy gamer above all else. I have played, replayed and worn out most titles in the genre. It was with some anticipation that I ordered Star Trek Conquest. I was terribly dissapointed in this game. This game has no diplomacy(spies, trade agreements etc.) Research tree is limited to 6 items(incresed mining, increased research, lower cost for admiral, and three ship enhacements that are only benificial in the arcade battle mode.) You wont be hard pressed to decide what Facilities to build. Each system has two, yes I said two building spaces. the first is for a space station to build ships. The second is your choice of mining facility or research facility. These are the only choices. No other buildings available. Lets talk about military. You are limited to three fleets only and they can have seven ships max. By the way dont plan on designing your own ships. you get to choose from a light, medium, or heavy type ship. No custom races. The real time combat was slow and difficult to use even with the research upgrades, I used the sim mode instead. This game is definitely not a 4X strategy at most it is a .4X game. Rating:  - Best Star Trek game ever createdI play this game everyday because of how it's so well made and this game is highly addictive thats why I play it. It's a little bit as the same thing as Star Trek Encounters but it's a 100 Billion times funner. So add this game Star Trek Conquest to your shopping list because it's worth it.
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