What makes Galaxy-Battle special?

Galaxy-Battle offers a variety of unique features that are not present in any other browser game.

• For once, Galaxy-Battle has a very special battle system: There are two sets of entities, ships and troops. When attacking a planet, the ships fight first. If they lose, they retreat.
  If the ships win, however, the troops leave the ships and invade the planet to fight the defendant's troops. If they win, they loot the resources.
  Additionally, if the troops have brought a Colonization Kit, the attacked planet is conquered and its remaining ships' and troops' allegiance changes.
  Best of all, you can coordinate attacks with other players and to collectively bombard a planet. But behold: you never know how many players there are supporting it...
• Another distinct characteristic of Galaxy-Battle is its sophisticated alliance system. Unlike any other browser game, the admission system is bidirectional, i. e. the player can apply to an alliance or the alliance can invite him. Moreover, a player can even apply to an alliance while being a member of another one. If such an application gets accepted, however, the player is not thrust out of his present alliance, but instead automatically receives an invitation to join the new one.
• Galaxy-Battle also offers you the possibility to simulate a battle before risking your troops. This is very useful if you have little resource production and every decision has a huge impact. However, the simulator featured is premium-only, which can be acquired for a very insubstantial fee.

First Steps

When you join an universe, you are automatically given a planet to start building your empire. Resourcesa are excavated and stored on the planet, and later used to construct buildings, conduct research, or recruit ships and troops.

• In order to construct buildings, click on "Main Building" in the menu on the left-hand side. There, you see a list of all buildings in Galaxy-Battle. Each building can be upgraded to a certain maximum level, and each level increases the use of the building or unlocks new items.
  A list of all items than can be unlocked is in the "Tech Tree" section. In order to find out more about an item, simply click on the name in its respective building's section.
• Once you have built a shipyard or barracks, you can recruit ships or troops, respectively. A battle consists of both a space battle fought by ships, and, if the attacking fleet wins, a ground combat done by troops.
  The amount of troops that can be sent depends on the ships: each ship has a certain capacity, and troops have a capcity consumption. The cumulative capacity consumption must not exceed the capacity. If the overall capacity of the ships diminishes during a space bettle to a level below the necessary capacity for the accompanying troops, the excess troops are released into space and lost for good.
  Additionally, if both the attacking ships and troops win, and there is a spare attacking Colonization Kit, the attacked planet is conquered and its remaining ships' and troops' allegiance changes.