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Star Trek: Armada is a strategy game developed by Activision and published by Activision/Mad Doc Software in 2000. The game is set in the The Next Generation era and features a few of its main characters and ships.

The story plays after the Dominion War. It includes the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire and the Borg. The Federation fights of another Borg invasion, on the Klingon side Toral tries to use a fake Sword of Kahless to take over the Empire and the Romulan's and the Borg fight for the Omega Particle.

Where can I get it?[]

After a series of lawsuits, started in 2003, between Activision and Viacom, Paramount Pictures' parent company, Activison dropped the license to produce games based on the Star Trek universe. For a long time the only option was to get the game on a market place, but since 2021 the game was re-released on GOG. This version was patch by the developers of GOG and is so no longer compatible with the CD version.

How can I install the CD on Windows 10?[]

  1. Install Armada from your CD with the install.exe as administrator
  2. Install 1.2 Patch
  3. Install 1.3 Unofficial Patch it adds compatibility fixes for modern versions of Windows as well as widescreen support
  4. Copy the DirectDraw wrapper into your installation folder
  5. Check if your Legacy Components are active. You can find it by pressing Start and typing "Turn Windows features on or off"

Multiplayer after 2014?[]

Since the shutdown of all the Gamespy servers, it's no longer possible to play the multiplayer mode with the original CD version. Thankfully, the latest version from GOG supports again LAN mode, which you can play via a VPN-client like Radmin or Zerotier.

What mods can you recommend?[]

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