Abusing Stupidity To Topple An Empire! | Learning Empire At War | REBEL CAMPAIGN

After winning the popular vote in dominant fashion (11%), I'll be sitting down in an attempt to learn one of the greatest RTS games ever created. Star Wars: Empire At War
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[@eagle_and_the_dragon]

The 2000s truly were the golden age of Star Wars. New Prequel content, all the Classic Games, Best range of Lego models (fight me). Great time to grow up.

[@derekf9017]

Lucas was right exactly. Look what were up against. Its incredible lol.

[@ripxvanxxwinklex9881]

Love this game it’s truly a hidden gem, one thing I will say, micro managing will be your best friend. Sometimes, the ai doesn’t have the best pathfinding abilities. Also getting to know, and utilizing every units ability will save you a lot of headache. Space battles are fun, good healthy fleets are also a must, early rebels it’s a little tricky, I’ve learned to build a bunch of fighters and know some are gonna get lost. The artillery ships, such as broadside cruisers, and marauder cruisers, are great to use against enemy fighters, and does damage to ships with down shields. also has a barrage ability you can use at a distance. Keep in mind they can wreck your fighters as well. I’ve learned when you lose a bunch a fighters , to look around just out of range in the fog of war, there’s normally one lurking around. It’ll show up when it fires, nebulon b’s where they’re not tanky through their hull they have a boost power to shields ability that will slow them to tank some fire for period of time. Using bombers in groups focused on one target, such as shield generators, and engines, so your other ships can mop up sub systems after words. Y Wing ion cannons can wreck shields if you use enough and slow the ship. This game is kind like learning a dance, the more strategic you are you will be rewarded. As for land battles don’t worry too much about strong and weak , keep it close in mind, but don’t fret much. If you have enough numbers in base game, and you concentrate fire on the strongest units they will go down. Artillery is very fragile, the spotters are kinda cool but fragile, best to send your force of t2bs and infantry forward, have your artillery set up on the landing zone. Also every command post you capture gives you more build cap. Kessel is one of the more unbalanced planets, base game is bad about not giving enough units at start. But if you use them right you should do ok. Hope this helps you have a better experience, the mods are very fun, most mirror the base game, but fix base game issues such as build cap and so on. Except awakening of the rebellion/clone wars it’s a completely new experience. Yet they’re each their own game, years of content to be made with this game.

[@endosaurus1404]

In terms of mods to play. I'd say the most simple would be republic at war since that one just switches the era to the clone wars. Some more in depth game conversion ones would be Thrawn's Revenge, Fall of the Republic, Awakening of the Rebellion, and now also Awakening of the Clone Wars. These take time to get into coming off of the main game, however they are very much worth looking into and playing.

[@DRGEngineer]

Thrawns Revenge and Fall of the Republic are probably some of the best mods I've seen for any game in general tbh. i would love to see the team that developed those mods develop a full game, i would happily pay money for it. so much love and effort went into creating a game that makes you feel like you are general in the star wars canon. FoTR and TR are easily substantial enough to have been sequels on their own.

[@aurora4xabo665]

Yup as frist playthrougth and dip feet into modding, Republic at War.

[@unfadingsolace6230]

This game is a giant game of rock paper scissors. - Corvettes beat fighters. (Tartan Patrol Cruiser, CR90 Corvette, DP20 Gunship) - Frigates beat corvettes. (Acclamator-Class Cruiser, Nebulon-B) - Cruisers beat frigates. (Victory-Class Cruiser, Assault Frigate) - Capital ships beat cruisers. (Star Destroyer, Mon Calamari Cruiser) - Bombers beat capital ships. (TIE Bomber, Y-Wing) - Fighters and corvettes beat bombers. (TIE Fighter, X-Wing) There's two units that do not fit in that list, and it's the artillery cruisers (Broadside, Marauder), because their role is just to sit in the back and shoot missiles at things which deals devastating damage. But they are vulnerable to anything that gets close. Another unit not in that list is the Interdictor Cruiser, which exists purely to stop you from retreating. Something to keep in mind is that concussion missiles and proton torpedoes ignore shields, which is why these Artillery Cruisers are so successful. A tactic that oddly works for the Rebels is to make purely DP20 Gunships and keep them moving as their weapons are missile launchers. Between their small size and speed, they are harder to hit, and the mass of missile launchers can punch way above their weight because it ignores shielding. For ground battles it's always important to rush the nearest landing zone first to be able to deploy more troops. Defenders will always have the advantage of infinite troops spawning in from their buildings, so there's often little point fighting them until you are ready to.

[@endosaurus1404]

I've never actually played a minute of base game because the mods are basically their own games at this point, but it shouldn't be too complicated. Its pretty straightforward for now.

[@DRGEngineer]

wow as someone who grew up playing the game as a kid and only recently having gotten into mods that is a wild opposite position to think of. i definitely recommend you try out the base game n jus play through the each campaign jus for the experience cuz theyre pretty good. Forces of Corruption is also a really well made RTS campaign that has surprisingly good story thats mostly entirely uninvolved with the movies which i really enjoy. its probably alot simpler on the macro level when compared to something like Rise of the Empire but id like to think the vanilla game holds up well without nostalgia factoring in.

[@Sealice_the_Silver]

As someone who's played basegame and the Forces of Corruption DLC, its enjoyable (also the Empire and Rebels play a bit different in the DLC since they get new heroes and units) but be ready for some frustration. Certain units HARD counter other units but once you get past that it's decent (although I definitely enjoy mods more than basegame)

[@Sealice_the_Silver]

On Korriban it wasn't the walkers that killed your vehicles, it was the enemy plex troops. Also this campaign is the STORY campaign, meaning it's way more linear than the galactic conquest mode as it's basically a huge tutorial. If you end up enjoying this game, you should try the DLC (it comes FREE with the game and adds a third playable faction)

[@reallyFrogman]

I'll give you some tips to continue this campaign: 1. Always build up your planets and spacestations, a few planets have boosted income so use those for mining facilities and prioritise military buildings on other planets (I promise you you have more than enough credits for this stage). 2. Reinforce your planets. Put some ships on the defence of frontline planets and around 5 units on ever planets surface to defend from incoming invasions. You will also need to reinforce any planets that have a noighbouring planet that is greyed out. 3. Move your ground invasion force away from the frontline so it doesn't become destroyed by a surprise attack. 4. Fighting on the ground can be tough but you should defiently use artillery as they are extreme glass canons, they melt both infantry and vehicles but have a low hp in return, an artillery unit comes with 2 artillery pieces and 2 spotters which can travel quickly and have an ability that reveals part of the map up ahead making them good for scouting or bombing runs. 5. Infantry beat infantry, watching you use rocket troopers and tanks on infantry was painful since tanks are not made for killing infantry and rockets aren't that accurate against infantry. 6. Infantry can hide in bunkers to be better protected from getting hit, hence why those stormtroopers on kessel took so long to die. 7. This one is for a bit later but if you have something that moves on the ground like Tie Maulers or T4-B tanks then they can run the enemy infantry over killing them very fast. 8. Vehicle repair stations and bacta tanks are key to minimising your casualties, you have the credits so use them. 9. In space battles you should send in the tanks first and hold the smaller ships back to get a lay of where ships are, you want to avoid an enemy corvette with their power diverted to weapons wipes your squadrons in mere seconds. You can also use the true strategists tactic and have literally every ship vocusing on the same enemy to maximize damage output, it's so stupid it works. 10. Launch raids on Mon Calamari, Naboo and Bothawui since the local populations are loyal to the Rebellion and will give you free civillian units which keep respawning at their homes which make your raids way more effective. 11. If a planet is red with no ground units, or any kind of buildings then that planet could be free for the taking, if a planet is grey then no one controls it and if a planet is yellow then it's controlled by the Black Sun pirates who are not affiliated with the Empire and are much weaker overall. 12. R2-D2 and C-3PO are what's known as hidden units, these can not be detected by the enemy on their own. If you're not stealing tech with them then you can put them in the space of the same system as an enemy to spy on what they have.

[@jk2noob511]

i cant believe i watching this game in 2025. It is one of my favorite SW games! thank you :)

[@Sealice_the_Silver]

Hey ThatGuyPredz, the reason why you're struggling so bad is because: 1. you didn't use the stations, the one at Kuat you autoresloved is a tier 3 station that could've killed half that fleet by itself, since it's fairly strong and calls in free defense units. 2. this is the campaign, and in the campaign you don't have access to some of your units because they're unlocked later in the story, which can make some fights extremely challenging (this is why Galactic Conquest is honestly a bit easier once you know what you're doing, since you aren't dealing with limits). 3. Remember you have raids, this can really help because the Empire cannot raid, and if you destroy a world's defenses in a raid, the station above the world will be destroyed too, so it'll be a lot easier to take. 4. It might be challenging now, but I'd heavily recommend taking as many worlds as possible before doing the next mission, the reason being that each time you do a mission you unlock more of the map, which will mean the enemy Ai has more worlds and ships to throw your way. 5. This is a final tip: read the world's bonuses or debuffs before attacking them, there's a world you'll see that literally burns infantry over time so using infantry there is a bad idea unless you build bacta healing stations on the build pads (also you can build repair buildings on those pads, which can help keep your vehicle losses low)

[@LeWhiske]

After watching the whole thing, here is some pointers and recommendations. This is gonna be sorta casual so I may not use the exact right words: -Play the Forces of Corruption version: This version is a dlc from the main game that all mods base off of. It has some great QoL and generally better game flow. -keybinds Some i know off the top of my head is R for reinforce, W for choosing how troops move (mostly useful of controlling how your bigger space ships move) S to stop your troops (super important!). For a cinematic controlled view select a ship and hit C and it's an orbit cam :^) -Ships Now most of my experience is in modded and changes some things but we will go small to big: ●starfighters You have your fighters (z95 headhunters or a wings if they are in this version). These are most effective against other fighters and especially bombers. Then you have your fighter bombers (id assume base game is x wing). They do a little bombing and a little fighting and are quite versatile. Then you have your bombers (Y wings). In base game and some mods they can hit through shields and they hit hard. ●anti fighter cruisers These shred starfighters of all variety, but are quite weak to larger ships. These are your ships with the large amount of engines in the back (corellian ships). On the empire it's the tartan and broadside (smaller than the star destroyers of all variety). These are what absolutely shrek'd your fighters about halfway in the stream. ●Light cruisers These are your nebulons (larger thin ship that looks like it has an upside down v on the back) and acclamator on the empire (small star destroyer). These are good for ganging bigger ships or stopping anti fighter cruisers and are really great in most situations. ●beeg cruisers These are your full star destroyers (ISD or Victory destroyers) and your beeger ship (mon calamari ships). These look like the ship on rebel side in space battles in battlefront 2. You didn't unlock it but it deletes ships but sorta sucks at star fighters. This was the main reason near the end you felt you couldn't stop the victory star destroyers, as you actually weren't using the actual counter yet XD Some of this could be different in base game but should generally apply. -Ship hard points These are the points on larger ships that you can focus on. I'm gonna skip obvious one like shield gens and engines. (Except broken engines have them move slower and be unable to have that unit retreat!)Torpedo launchers and missiles are typically long range and do great against unshielded ships but not too good for shields. Laser cannons are typically the opposite. The size of the gun typically corresponds to the type of ship its meant for (small gun for small fighters and beeg gun for cruisers)and/or range -Ground Combat Base game ground sorta sucks as its super fast and hard to set up a foothold. But more command posts allow for more reinforcements. I also just sorta suck at ground so I don't got alotta tips here 🤷 This game took me a while to learn, but once you get the flow conquering the galaxy is so fun! The best way is to die many upon many times in conquests until you get the feel for combat and just learning matchups. This wasnt even as detailed as it could be but hopefully gets you up to speed and wasn't too overwhelming :^)

[@EpIcBeardMan1994]

Alright here are some tips and tricks for starting your next campaign. 1. for you to build better units you have to move through the building tiers. example tier 1 is barracks/mine. tier 2 is light factory etc. but the thing is to get tier 2 light factory you need a infantry barracks built. and for a heavy factory you need a light factory. 2. Always keep a Y wing up in space. this allows you to do bombing runs. Bombing runs are infinite and are on a timer. 3. During campaign it is best to always conquer every available planet before going into the next mission. 4. The rebels are super over powered, you can literally cheese planets. all you need is any 3 units (4 if you use a stealth unit like C3P0/R2D2 but there is really only one true stealth unit like them) you can spam raid every planet even some mission planets. 5. once at a certain point in the campaign RUSH tech and RUSH planets, the AI starts to counter attack and become more aggro at this point. I suggest Easy mode until you get more comfortable with the difficulty. 6. Always leave one planet buffer between the enemy planet and your planet with land troops, the last thing you want is to lose all your troops in one go. 7. and lastly avoide moving and keeping mon mathma on alderaan otherwise you can lose the campaign, the planet will explode.

[@Sealice_the_Silver]

This game can be a bit janky due to it's age, but what it accomplishes is incredible. Also the DLC fixes a lot of QoL stuff while adding a third playable faction to the game. And this game still has a very active community (the devs JUST gave the game a new update after over 20 years), from my experience every major mod has been great, you're in for a treat.

[@Anonymous-ks8el]

I don't want to overload you with info or give you strats that require micro & game knowledge you just don't have yet, but the enemy AI is dictating the flow of battle and they play to all of their strengths and you're not reacting fast enough to play to any of your strengths Corvettes+Frigates attack first, attack enemy fighters & bombers with corvettes and attack enemy corvettes with frigates. When the enemy corvettes are destroyed then use bombers to attack enemy frigates (target the hangars first to stop bombers spawning, then torpedo/missile launchers) If the enemy has long range missile corvettes (Marauder, Broadside) DO NOT send in fighters or bombers at all, instead rush them with corvettes (they pop up as red dots on the map when they fire missiles) Infantry and light tanks (T2B) are weak, send them forward first to distract the enemy then send your plex infantry to destroy the vehicles. When enemy artillery starts firing (pops up as red dots on map) you have to immediately rush them with light tanks or pull back your forces (or you get nuked)

[@Bob-e4u]

Make a series out of this please

[@LeWhiske]

You really should try the EaWX mods, they're fantastic! Both thrawns revenge and Fall of the Republic (my favorite) are phenomenal

[@PlatinumGaming67]

I'm late, BUT YES!!!!

[@kamrenbolt5413]

Please tell me youre planning on doing a modded playthrough in the future! Thrawns Revenge is my favorite but theres tons of great mods.

[@aurora4xabo665]

Ohh much nostalgia ye, catching stream now as vod.

[@Abrogator91]

I hate when subtitles refer to R2D2 and C3PO as "artoo" "threepio". I dont know why, but it makes me irrationally angry lol

[@joenuts7027]

This is my favorite game ever

[@elpwrsonio]

empire at war my beloved

[@AtopLeap]

Honestly, my best advice short of micro-managing your decisions is to play the Empire campaign. I find it a lot easier than the Rebel campaign.

[@ClhCgu45]

One of the greatest Star Wars games

[@adriansulahian959]

My advice is to play Sin's of the Galactic Empire instead! It's a mod for Sin's of a Solar Empire.

[@endosaurus1404]

"My advice: play a different game."

[@adriansulahian959]

@ Yup

[@eagle_and_the_dragon]

SoGE is a little old, how about Interregnum?

[@adriansulahian959]

@@eagle_and_the_dragon Never tried it.

[@eagle_and_the_dragon]

@@adriansulahian959 give it a week or two; the full release is coming soon.

[@ninthundertow]

Galactic Battlegrounds was better