The base game is not realy that good, you will need a lot of DLCs if you slowly gather them at 50% off you will eventualy get to a very good game at price less than 200eurs. complex on so many lvls, but very enjoyable if you like startegy buildup games that punish you for bad decesions. The replayability, hunt for achivements or just painting the map with your colour, can be both frustrating and rewarding ... Like to fail a 30hour build up or successfuly win agains ovherwelming odds... Or to dominate throught diplomacy slowly expanding your teritory. Or to try fallow up on trail of history. To see true historical events it's just a great game 9/10 and I do not regret buing most of the dlcs at full price

This game given for for free while I would gladly play at least 10E to get it. Thanks Love in space <3

The story is very catching. Once you get to used to mechanics it is realy interesting, I strongly recomend playing it for captain difficulity in the first try since anything below is far too easy to be enjoyable.

As for Plus and cons:
- one of the greates plus is autosave - which is realy often so even thou the game crashes from time to time - especialy in very long combats I never had to redo the entire turn. Or if you make fatal mistake in placing of your units etc... you can get back quite easily.
-Combat is fun. Fair Rock-paper-sizzors system (Rock being Big *** battleships vulnerable to big guns, Paper being frigates with low armor but fairly high dmg, and Sizzors being mechs with high evasion but relatievly low dmg - but if you soften enemy armor with some heavy hitts they can be realy bad*** :-)
-Story line is cool for the first time, for replayability there is skip option which helps reduce the game time from 12-14 hours to just 4-5
-Upgrades system one of the best I'v seen in Rpg tactical combat game.
-Skirmish - you can try your fleet agains enemy of your choise.

Cons:
-relatievely long turns and animations - I would prefere if you can entirely disable em (was fun for 20 shots - not after that and pressing/holding space like crazy just to skip that - I'd like to have option to disable it completly.
-qotes of heroes - some of em are realy anoing :-) (Especialy Phoenix related)
-higher difficulities reduce your dmg done greatly and thus you are entire time on defensive - I miss the pointbreaker where you and the enemy would be equal (On captain you have +30% dmg while on higher difficulity you deal about 80%

I realy recomend this game. For most of the time had fun (except for one or two nerdrages when I had no idea about the game mechanics and got wiped after 40 minits battle just because I ignored the enemy support units :-) (realy not good idea to do so)

Hey guys its quite fun but is it just me? Or the game crashes quite often (first 10-12 missions no problem) and than it crashed for the first time ... and after that once every hour of gameplay