here's a Armada 1 AI mod clip (I'm the white Rom and the AI is the red Federation). The first step is to get the AI to waste it's chain before moving in for the kill: Twitch Link

We played 5 games last night, new content up on twitch, here are some highlights:

Shrike Rush

Autos and Warbirds vs. Akiras and Warbirds

Just wanted to share this milestone our A1 community achieved. We are on gameranger everyday between 8pm and 1am EST. We just had a brand new player join yesterday. All skills levels are welcome. Message me for details if you want to play with us.

does anyone know wich file to edit to increase the officer limit for each species in instant action games?

I recently rediscovered STA and the nostalgia is real. I'm still not sure which one between STA, STAII, and FleetOps I want to spend most of my time on, but I'm remembering some things that bugged me in playing/editing the game, namely that I was never able to precisely understand how much HP a ship had.

In STA, you can see the exact shield stats by mousing over the bar for a few seconds, but there's no way to see the hull hp afaik.

In STAII and FleetOps it's the opposite. I never figured out how to read/edit STA ship files, since I don't see ODFs. And in the STAII ODFs, I only see hull health but not shields (though it seems like they're always proportional). Anyone know how that works exactly? Know how to edit hp and shields separately?

Thanks in advance

Has GOG done an update on A1 or something?

Here you go:https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2055062975

Hello! I am Admiral Legend here on behalf of the eleventh fleet spartan vanguard. We have an active A3 division with games weekly. We also have a busy and active STO fleet as well as play the old school trek games available on GOG. If you’re interested, please reach out to me! We want to expand and have a larger player base as well as due events with Allied fleets. Please message with any questions or more interested!

We play every night on Game Ranger. All skill levels welcome.

Some sneaky cloaked Romulan Bombers ambushed Klingon Birds of Prey

Sneaky Romulan Shrikes tried ambushing a Borg base, but instead they were the ones who got ambushed!

Hey all. We have about 10 new players on Gameranger playing Star Trek Armada 1. Many of these players are new to open maps so we made this tutorial. Come over to Gameranger and play with us. All skills levels are welcome. Message me for the Discord.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vezXDCcbD6k

Here’s some tips from last nights games on Gameranger:

Force Ratios: The idea here is to have 2 or more of your ships for each of their ships. In this clip, the brown Kling ships are off to the right of his allies, so the 3 of us moved to that spot, making it 3 vs 1 for a few seconds, which was enough to throw them off balance. The important part here is that we moved in unison. https://clips.twitch.tv/ViscousRamshacklePancakePogChamp-Tb7msBqnGAF3qDA4

Defending Against a Larger Force: The idea here is to attack the enemy ships while they attack your stations and then run to your starbase before they target your ships. Ideally you pull the enemy ships in range of your starbase, but this is also good to pick off their ships or delay their overall attack. In this example Josh uses his Bjrds of Prey to harass the enemy fleet without losing any of his ships. https://clips.twitch.tv/GracefulPleasantJalapenoSpicyBoy-SLrapiVjtclZDFzL

Pick your Battles: In this example, we began attacking the center top, but they had ships there to defend. While we could have engaged them, instead we moved to the left players third mine, which was completely undefended. https://clips.twitch.tv/RamshackleSmallWallabyCopyThis-lzTOgb59kzhf_uPg

Hey, here's some clips of an Armada 1 AI mod that builds ships and behaves more like a player, so you can have some legit ship battles with the AI. I had 400 kills at the end, here are some highlights (AI is red):

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2051135905

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2051132237

here's a clip of a 4v4 we played last night, we tried attacking their base but all my ships got self destructed on 😦

we got them back though

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Hi all, some highlights from last night's games of Star Trek Armada 1:
Ship Battles
Fed Attacks Rom
Repelling Warbirds
Hit and Run on Rom Base
Akiras Fight
Defending with Self Destruct
Bops Sniping a Con Ship

Hi, just wanted to let everyone know that Star Trek Armada 1 is still being played on GameRanger. There is a small but active group and we get games 4-6 days per week, usually in the evenings (EST). Would love to have other players join our group!

TL;DR: You need to acquire the Good Old Games (GOG) version of the game, which includes a custom DirectX wrapper that provides Windows 11 compatibility.

1. After installation, run dxcfg.exe from the game folder (by default it's C:\GOG Games\Star Trek Armada).
2. Change the Display Mode to something compatible with your monitor. 1024 x 768 @ 60 Hz should work for most people.
3. Change the Presentation to Windowed.
4. Save settings and exit.
5. Run ST: Armada.

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GOG custom DirectX Wrapper configuration.

From my experience, you do NOT need to adjust any Windows compatibility settings, troubleshooters, or High DPI settings in Windows. You do NOT need to change your regular Windows display settings or resolution. The DirectX Wrapper will provide the compatibility.

At 1024 x 768, the game will run in a 4:3 ratio window: as intended when the game was produced almost 25 years ago when square monitors were the norm. You can experiment with the DirectX Wrapper Display Mode; a higher resolution will create a larger game window. However, the game may appear stretched on a modern monitor, or refuse to start up at all. You can also adjust the DirectX Wrapper Anisotropic Filtering and Antialiasing settings for better quality and performance. Again, your mileage may vary.

The instructions above were specifically tested on Windows 11 Pro 22H2, however they should work on previous versions of Windows from Windows 7 and newer.

My own game is running at 1920 x 1080 @ 144 Hz (my monitor supports up to 165 Hz) with AF 16x Anisotropic Filtering and MSAA 8x Antialiasing.

While I said you need the GOG release for the custom DirectX Wrapper, technically that's not true. You could find other wrappers from other sources, although I personally know nothing about that rabbit hole. Heck, if you're savvy enough, you could program your own, I guess. However, that's a helluva lot of work for a 25 year old game that costs $10 USD. Simplify your life, just buy it and save the hassle.

Mods might want to sticky this post if they deem it worthy and error free: I leave that decision up to them.

hi guys,

just want to let you know that we are running a server for a lot of classic rts games. We are always looking for new members to join, all skill levels are welcome!

We are supporting mods like FleetOperations...feel free to join us :)

> "https://discord.gg/N9sRfqW8HR"

I've been trying to import the ships and stations from armada I & II into .obj, and I've had good luck with the 3ds max and lithUnwrap plugins, but there are still .sod files I'm not able to convert. I've tried using Milkshape 3d, but for whatever reason I cannot import .sod, only export, even though I've put in the armada plugin. Am I not using the right plugin? I've also heard of a program way back from frost-works called CV, I was able to find the archived page but the program was not saved, does anyone still have it?

I know this isn't for Star Trek Birth of the Federation but I'm looking for some help I'm trying to do multiplayer but it just won't connect. Any suggestions I have some mods.

Is there an armada 2 (vanilla) remaster or texture update for all models patch or mod?

Title says it all, was wondering if there is any good strategy guide?

I'm really starting to hate most star trek games. This is the second one I've tried. I bought Armada 2 since BOTF is hard to get a hold of now this lags so bad that it won't even load the menus. Any suggestions?