The interface for adjusting this stuff is basic but functional, fortunately battles rarely involve much more than a handful of units. Alongside that you can also assign a focus on defence or offence which gives bonuses and penalties to your systems. Each ship has a limited range and arc it can move in three dimensions with each class of ship having a variety of armament options ranging from housing squadrons of Vipers through to Guided Missiles and Nukes.Īs well as combat, you also have to deal with prioritising system repairs as they take dings during encounters. During each turn you issue movement, combat and repair assignments for every ship in your fleet. During the planning phase you issue movement, affect repairs and target weaponry across your fleet of capital ships before ending your turn and watching it all play out in the execution phase with your head in your hands as it all goes terribly wrong.Įach battle has your fleet take on a variety of scenarios ultimately engaging a variety of Cylon fleets as you protect the Twelve Colonies. Like that game it uses a simultaneous turn-based system where the battles play out in two phases: planning and execution.
The game shares a lot of DNA with Black Lab Games’ previous space strategy game, Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.
The game’s campaign provides a series of missions that have you trying to save the Twelve Colonies from the Cylon threat. Taking place during the First Cylon War, Deadlock sees you taking over control of the Colonial Fleet from the mobile shipyard, Daidalos, after High Command on Picon is destroyed in a surprise attack breaking the titular deadlock that had been in place. Australian developer, Black Lab Games, obviously agrees and have given us Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, which slots canonically nice and early in the rebooted series’ timeline. Mixing turn-based strategy with the popular Battlestar Galactica franchise seems like something that should’ve been tried ages ago.
Reviews // 3rd Dec 2017 - 4 years ago // By Simon Brown Battlestar Galactica Deadlock Review
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