If you are like me and are always looking to find a decent TBS game and especially a space one, then you will know what my persective is for this review. Simiply put, I like this game and it has been a long time, since I felt that way on a 4x game.

The manual is very sparse, but the tutorial lets you encounter most of the issues you will find in a normal game. The colony management is not overly burdensome. The research tree is about the size I think is proper.

Not like a few games, where you have too many branches and too many techs. Where they come so fast you do not really get to use them. That is important to me as what is the fun of getting that cool tech, if it is not going to really be a factor in the game?

You are only allowed 4 research structures per planet, so you will not be racing through the techs right off.

Planets have a finite number of "tiles" that can house structures and you cannot just plop one down in a tile. It has to become open. That is done by having more population. Pop can be ferried over or grow at its own rate.

Like many games in the post civilization III era, you can have happiness issue. I am not a fan of that, but what can you do?

The game is like many recent ones, where you play turn based, except in combat. Combat is done on a planet from space. If you land ground units then you see them fight from a high in the sky view.

You can zoom in on all combat. You can do the usual auto resolve at the start and they have an acceleration button, if you elect to go manual combat. It is not all that useful as it barely speeds up a battle. Not alot of fun, if you killed of the ships and have no ground units and they do.

You have to wait for several minutes for the non event battle to conclude. Victory can give you score points, so it is best to be sure you can win the battle an not have any ground units left on the planet.

I would say the combat part is not really all that interesting and unless you need to manage the battle to win it, you will be using auto.

Certainly a game worth having for those of us that love this genre.

Nice expansion with proper monitoring of Ntronium Games. The last 1.04 patch added three new races in the game and AI developpement. Bit less visual but more rich and deep than GalCiv2.

I would recommend getting this expansion, my answer is a simple, but emphatic yes. If you enjoyed Armada 2526 before the expansion, You will surely enjoy what the expansion brings to this game. Just don’t get it for the new races alone, they aren’t really game changing, it is all the other aspects that makes this expansion so worth getting. As far as an expansion goes I would say it is a must have for anyone who has the game or plans to pick it up

ok so this is supernova....i was hopeing for so much from this game and i was very dissappionted to me this expantion pack fells more like a patch and i would only recommend it if you absolutly love the game....but i would still wait till its on sale

A great expansion to a great game, Supernova shores up quite a few of the flaws of the original game.

Although the new import/export system is nice, the besst feature as far as I'm concerned is the new planetary system features. These help set the planet apart from the old limited system. The new techs are a nice addition as well

The only real thing on my wishlist is customizable ships, however with the way the tech tree works this would require a total reworking of it. Maybe in a sequel.

All in all I gave this game 4/5, and would reccomend it to any turn based 4x fan.

Though the unpatched armada 2526 got quite a lot of bad reviews (and I second a lot of them), this add-on really makes the game a lot better to play. It is still uncomparable to MOO, though.