Star Trek Armada 2 Fleet Operations is a popular skirmish and multiplayer orientated total conversion modification for Activision’s real-time strategy game Star Trek Armada II. The project’s goal was not only to create a simple “modification” but as total conversion to make Armada II a worthy successor to the second bestselling Star Trek game Star Trek: Armada (behind Interplay’s Star Trek: 25th Anniversary by a small, but fair margin).
The first public version of Fleet Operations was released in 2003. Today, version 3 includes a whole new user interface, an updated game and graphics engine, completely replaced ship models, 5 balanced races with totally new gameplay and tons of new possibilities making Armada II a real real-time strategy multiplayer game.
Fleet Operations features
5 balanced races: Federation, Klingon, Borg, Romulan and Dominion.
More than 200 new ships and stations.
Dynamic tactics: Avatars, ship experience system, mixed tech, warp-in.
Fully supported and improved AI.
Community driven and active in development since 2003.
Game engine enhancements: Widescreen support, FMOD sound engine, Tunngle online gaming.
Not the Armada you played: 99% of all models, graphics, sounds, scripts rewritten or replaced.
Patched to include latest fixes up to Windows 7.
Easy Installation: Installs right off your Armada II CD – no pre-installation required.
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I think the Klingons have the best defence turret, as you saw multiple target locks or 4 torpedo's to a single target, plus its a really tough structure. That and the Feds Quantum Torpedo Turrets.
You can turn your mining ships into classic vintage D7 K'Tinga warships, there not too powerful – the equivient of a Bird Of Prey but its an option in a pinch if you need some firepower.
I love what the modders did with the first shipyard, I tried to MOD the base game to do something similiar many years ago but I could not get it to work.
This map was quite cool, I tried it, and placed them in the same starting positions, and had a good tug of war over the moons in the middle,