Star Trek Starfleet Command II: Empires at War Official Strategy Guide

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Summary: Great Guide for those who want to know
Review: Great source for information on ships weapons, assests, and tactics. Shows tactics for ships and fighters of each individual race, and elaboraates on how races could respond to the tactics of other races. Based on many tactics from SFB (the board game SFC2 is derived from)as well as new tactics established in SFC, it is an invaluable source for the beginner to moderate player. Better than any previous strategy guide for SFC, and even the expert player can get something useful out of it. I'll give it 2 thumbs up along with all the stars :)

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Summary: Finally a strategy guide with useful information!
Review: He did a SUPER GREAT job with SFC2 strategy guide and the manual that came with the game. I'm really impressed with it. Finally a guide with real useful information. In my opinion, Excellent layout, content and very damn professional. 5 out of 5 stars for it!

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Summary: Don't waste your timed with this book
Review: I bought this book thinking that it would supplement the instruction guide well. I was completely dissapointed. The strategy guide, like the manual, is well written, but doesn't contain as much useful information as it should. Much of the content is straight from the manual, some of it being word for word. I was hoping for some detailed information on the fighters, but they pretty much just gave the generic "average, above average, etc." comments like they did for the rest of the ships for each race (both in the manual as well as again, in the strategy guide). It's sad because I can go and yank this information from a text document in one of the installation directories. I was also hoping for a detailed information sheet for all the ships like the fold out sheet found with the first game. The strategy guide had this but for the few ships that I've looked up from memory, only 1 has had the right information. The others had incorrect information which makes the one useful thing in the book, useless. Some of the strategies and training exercises are decent, giving this book the one star I rated it. Overall, you are better off sticking with the manual and getting any other information you need from the internet.

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Summary: How long did THIS take to write?
Review: I just bought this book and I am very disappointed. This is not nearly as good as the SFC1 strategy guide and has no mission walk throughs. I understand this was written in a week, and it shows. I have also found errors in the appendix, and I can't recommend this guide to anyone.

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Summary: Great guide for newbees, and ref for vet's
Review: Ok good book over all. Some parts I already knew, but maybe thats due to the fact that they were unchanged since SFC 1 came out and I have played it for over a year. All said and done this book covers the basic game play of each race very well, in simple terms that a new player can understand and use. The tactics are very sound and explained in detail, there are also chapters in the guide covering parts of the game that there was little known about showing how to get every last bit of power out of your ship. To close I would say this a must have for a new player , and a very good refference for the vet's. Thank you Mr. Green! PS there are no walkthru's for indiviual missions, but great multiplayer tactics.

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Summary: Wasn't good to begin with, and now its almost useless
Review: This book had a few good things, like some training activities and basic strategies, but much of the info was wrong like how the plasma I's work or some of the ship stats in the back of the book. Now that the game has went through so many revisions to fix bugs and balance the game, the book is completely lacking or incorrect for most of it's information. No info on Plasma D's since they are new, and the ship information in the back is even more incorrect. Don't waste your time with this one. Wait for an updated version.

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Summary: Star Trek Happy
Review: This official strategy guide contains very helpful information on how to defeat each race, including the Interstellar Concordium. It explains other aspects of the game not included in the manual. Highly recommended.

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Summary: COOL
Review: Very neat, also very informative on how to beat the game.