I played waaaay too much Star Trek Armada back in the day, and just firing it up again brings me back to a lot of teenage LAN parties. Just as I remembered it. As I'm writing this it's just been released so compatibility is a bit iffy, but I got it working by changing the DirectX settings to: Resolution: "set by application" Presentation: "Windowed" YMMV judging by the other reviews, but hopefully it will get refined with patches. I'd prefer full screen, but a 1600x1200 window on my monitor is bigger in both resolution and physical size than I played on back in the day, so I can't complain!
Space Empires III introduced me to the 4X genre back in 1997. Over the following decade I kept coming back to it and spent countless hours ruthlessly crushing my enemies, often by destroying their stars and letting the shockwaves do the dirty work. The sound effects are still burned into my brain. I look forward to digging in and playing it again, though I may need to lower my screen resolution a bit to do it properly.
