Fragile Allegiance

Nice comlexity. Oldie but goodie

Few things in my childhood were better than sacrificing my colony in order to crash it into my opponent's. For the greater good!

I remember playing this and the game is great. You conquer asteroids and then destroy your enemies with hail of missiles and defend yourself with lasers. Easy to learn and play. One tip for you if you get stuck somewhere. Use stasis missiles with huge volley of normal ones. guaranteed annihilation of asteroid.

Don't trust anyone. The other races make great promises, but they will stab you in the back when they feel like it. It's a game where you will always lose a lot, wether you like it or not. Deal with it and get going. Oh, and if you think you have a nice asteroid, packed with missiles and space craft, ready to use it against your enemy? Be prepared to lose it in a glorious style by either enemy agents or enemy attack. Same goes for your asteroid that holds all your precious ore. Decentralize is key to winning the day. Money may be some issue in the beginning, but eventually (if you do it well) you will have loads of money. I hardly sell ore, i make loads of housing blocks because inhabitants will create income. That is always my main priority, get loads of asteroids and designate them as living space. As soon as you make money, hire managers to keep those living spaces under control. Then i will have a few "military" asteroids that i will manage myself. I will use these as mobile battlestations, roaming around the map and destroying anything in my path.

I remember this game from when I was in middle school. It holds up surprisingly well and continues to kick my ass. Definitely worth a buy if you want a 4x game with some high difficulty. Plus who doesn't like watching an asteroid get slammed by scatter missiles.