The Star Trek Starfleet Command series is one of the most revered "realistic" real-time strategy series on the market. Based on the Starfleet Battles board game, the series has always done a good job of portraying the excitement and challenge of commanding a spaceship in the Star Trek universe. Unfortunately, past iterations of the series have also well-portrayed the complexity of the same task, often with such detail that all but hardcore strategy fans were turned off.
Taldren, the game's developers, realized that they may have thrown too many gamers in the deep end of the strategy pool, and made an effort to simplify the game. The result of that simplification is Starfleet Command III by far the most straightforward and enjoyable version of the series.
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