Battle for the Galaxy

Battle for the Galaxy is a freemium mobile and web browser MMO strategy video game developed by AMT Games and originally published by NinjaKiwi. The game was released on Apple AppStore for iOS platforms and on Google Play for Android on September 22, 2014. It was also published on the web on 29 August 2015.
Battle for the Galaxy features player controlled development of the space outpost, further defending that outpost from other players, as well as attacking outposts of other players. Resources for army training and base development are obtained either from attacks, or via mines daily production. The main resources are titanium, energy and crystals, some extra features are also available for antimatter, which is hardly obtained by players. Players are offered to create or join corporations (groups of up to fifty people), which then give permanent bonuses to defense and attack units of a player and allow him to participate in a corporate wars.
Battle for the Galaxy got positive reviews and high ratings for it's high quality graphics and popular gameplay model, proven successful in a popular mobile game Clash of Clans. Many reviewers liked Battle for the Galaxy, but however a group of people disliked the freemium model, which provides paying players with end-game content faster.
Battle for the Galaxy became very popular on Android devices with more than 5,000,000 total downloads and 110,000+ reviews within 2 years of existence.
Gameplay
Battle for the Galaxy is an massively multiplayer online game, where players cooperate as a community (they are allowed to create or join a corporation), train army of technologicaly advanced units, and attack other players' space outposts to capture titanium and energy, and receive war points and medals for victories.
Titanium and energy can be used to further develop base and it's defenses, that protect the player from other players attacks. Amount of war points is used to determine best player within a league, tournament or corporate war and award him with special resources - crystals and antimatter, which are used also for base development:
* Titanium is used to build most of the buildings, including defensive buildings and to upgrade the Headquarters, which then grants access to more buildings and possibilty to upgrade existing buildings.
* Energy is used to prepare troops, starship and research new technologies for the army and to build and upgrade some buildings.
* Crystals allow player to create more builders or build more starports, allowing player to faster develop the base or attack other players more frequently.
* Antimatter allow player purchase building and troops above available capacity for the current technological level
Battle for the Galaxy also features a tutorial single player campaign in which the player can participate in a few of script-controlled battles to understand game mechanics.
Buildings
* Resources production, storage and builders
To collect and store titanium and energy, players are required to build titanium mines and energy generators and storages for resources to keep collected titanium and energy.
To build or upgrade buildings, player uses a builder. One builder can build or upgrade only building at a time. A player is allowed to have 5 builders a total.
* Defensive buildings
There is a variety of buildings available to the players to defend their outposts, including machinegun bunker, rocket launcher, anti-air tower, plasma gun, tesla tower, plasma traps. Players can also build and upgrade walls, which prevent ground enemies from entering the base, until they breach through.
* Offensive buildings
Players can build and upgrade some buildings to increase their performance in attacks, these buildings are: Starport(s), Command Center, Corporate Headquaters. Starports provide players with an ability to take more troops into the battle, Command Center reduces training time and Corporate Headquaters allows usage of troops, shared by corporate fellows. A player is allowed to have 5 starports a total, each with 4 starships.
* Research buildings
To use new types of troops and increase their combat stats players have to build Academy, Machine Factory and Heavy Vehicle Factory. Academy researches upgrades for infantry units, Machine Factory for light mechanical units and Heavy Vehicle Factory for Battlecruisers and Juggernaughts.
Units
* Infantry units
Three types of infantry units available to a player, these are space marines, grenadiers and raiders. Space marines have best health points, grenadiers have best attack range and damage and are able to shoot over walls, raiders have priority for destroying non-defensive buildings at short range.
* Light mechanical units
Player is able to use four types of light mechanical units, including light robots, robotic mines, helicopters and OAVs. Light robots have best health points and priority for attacking defensive buildings, robotic mines can only target walls and do increased damage to them, helicopters can shoot and move over walls, OAVs can shoot over walls and deal best damage, but have very short range and low health points.
* Heavy mechanical units
There are two types of heavy units and one support unit can be produced after the creation of heavy vehicle factory - Juggernauts - heavy robots, which have priority for destroying defenses, a lot of health points and damage, Battlecruisers - spaceships moving and shooting over walls with heavy damage and a lot of health points, Protoplasm Emitters - a supporting units, which creates a field of regenerating energy nearby the closest friendly unit, all units in that field restore health.
Mass media
Pocket Gamer - "Recruit and build mechs, battle cruisers, space marines, and more, along with several strategic structures to help secure your superiority in the galaxy."
Nine Over Ten - "The game is an exciting mixture of base building, resource management and strategic combat, offering players beautiful graphics and strategy action on a scale rarely seen in mobile games."

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