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If the boarding pods reach the enemy an internal battle ensues with the target ship powering down and tumbling as the fight rages in its corridors. Each race can design ships with special shuttles that ferry over marines to an opposing ship. Ballistics gets armor piercing rounds, able to better defeat armor and more accurate at the cost of damage.Ī big change in weaponry is the introduction of boarding pods. Energy weapons get the new heavy plasma cannon and projector weapons adding range and damage potential respectively. The corrosive missile denies an area of the battlefield dealing continuous damage to any ships within its cloud. There are new missiles like the DF Racks which fire a swarm of non-tracking missiles. In total there's more than a dozen new weapons each with new effects. Their asymmetrical ship designs favor speed and heavy firepower, but cannot take much damage in a fight.Įach of the weapon branches has expanded. They attack from anywhere, not limited like the humans are to naturally occurring node lines, and are almost as fast. They tear tunnels in the fabric of the universe to enter node space for FTL drives. Sentients are enslaved and psychically dominated to work in the factories, mines and labs of the Zuul until they die. They survived and adapted to become the ultimate scavengers on a mad crusade to find their "Great Masters." All things in the galaxy are resources to fuel their quest. They were genetically bred warriors who lost their creator. Wrapping it all up are some interface tweaks and some additional game creation options and you're pushing beyond expansions and into sequel territory.įirst the Zuul. BoB not only adds what you would expect in an expansion, namely new weapons, technologies, maps, scenarios, random encounters, and a fifth playable race, but it goes beyond to add new gameplay aspects like trade, diplomacy, communications, and intelligence analysis.

Now nine months later KP is ready to follow up with the expansion Born of Blood. The combination of turn based strategic play, real time battles, unique gameplay for the 4 races, streamlined management, compelling setting, and seamless multiplayer was a great start. KP made it very clear that SotS was the start of a franchise. With experience back to Homeworld:Cataclysm, the small team had been making space strategy games for a while now. It was the debut title for Kerberos Productions, but it was not the first game for the people who make up KP.

Sword of the Stars is a new entry into the 4X space strategy genre released last August.