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If you want 3D Gratuitous Space Battles, try the Homeworld series or Sins of a Solar Empire.
Well, it is a game about space battles. One might as well have a few aliens here and there for diversity (alien affirmative action).
Ship customization is key to winning various scenarios and online user-submitted challenges. Creating balanced ships for a diverse range of tactics takes up the bulk of the actual game. Online challenges will teach you how to build such fleets rather harshly in the twisted wreckage of your naively produced fleets. However, even a well built ship can fall quickly to poorly laid out deployments. Learning what orders or weapon ranges to setup are necessary in producing your overall strategy. You have no control over the actual battle, but your captains will follow your orders to the letter and will charge in to a slaughter if you are not careful.
Yes, every ship explodes when they die (all future spaceships are possibly made out of high explosive). In fact, every module of a ship explodes as it is destroyed. The resulting final explosion creates a wave of destruction that will damage other ships.
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Speed probably the most important aspect of making your fleets. If you want your fleet to attack at relatively the same time, you can only move as fast as your slowest ship. Fast ships can rush opponents that rely on powerful, but inaccurate or slow tracking weapons. Cowardly fleets can make use of high speed to run away and repair. Just be warned that high speed ships often sacrifice heavy armor or multiple shield modules.
Yes Gratuitous Space Battles does have Space Battles.
Large heavy expensive cruisers may impress one's massive, elitist ego, but fleets of cheap throwaway ships can often overwhelm hardier opponents. A common strategy is to make many fast ships with weapons that have a very low minimum range. Since the standard weapons have a high minimum range, many fleets will simply find themselves pecked to death point blank.
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Certain ship modules and three out of the four races start out locked. Unlocking ship modules relies on "honor" which basically means creating a fleet that is considered weaker than your enemies. If you can defeat a scenario with a fleet that is notably smaller, you can get more than enough to unlock every ship module without much effort. The other three races, the Rebels, the Empire, and the Alliance are unlocked by beating all the scenarios on Normal, Hard, and Expert respectively.
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