Hello everyone
Today I have good news, because the new 0.7.7 update for the demo game has been released. The main novelty is the new battle admiral of the Imperial Corps!
What new things does he bring to the game?
This admiral specializes in space infantry and planetary siege warfare. In one of the recent updates, the player has the opportunity to build planetary corps bases for infantry training. Up to this point, they could only provide additional durability to fleets, planets, and stations, as well as serve as labor on defensive platforms. But with the advent of the corps' spaceships, we will begin to reveal their true purpose — boarding and amphibious operations!
The corps' fleets carry a large number of Imperial infantry with them and are equipped with a large number of boarding capsules. When they engage in battle, they unleash waves of boarding parties on the enemy. For infantrymen, this is a one-way road, but when they get on an enemy ship, they can cause tremendous damage, especially if there are no enemy infantry there.
In addition, boarding capsules as a weapon completely ignore the shields of the target, without losing their effectiveness.
But all this will please the player only until the fleet has enough infantrymen to carry out operations. In protracted battles or with insufficient supplies, corps fleets can lose most of their firepower.
Another feature of the new fleets are the batteries of artillery guns. There are not as many of them as on other imperial ships, and they cannot boast high damage per minute, but they have significant damage bonuses for the population of planets and stations, which means they can significantly speed up the siege process.
In addition, the game has undergone a number of improvements and edits in the interface, behavior algorithms and trading. All this can already be tried in the current demo version of the game. I hope you'll like the changes. ^_^