Star Legions
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| Developer(s) | Supernova Creations |
| Publisher(s) | Mindcraft |
| Designer(s) | Trevor Sorensen |
| Platform(s) | MS-DOS |
| Release | 1992 |
| Genre(s) | Strategy |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Trevor Sorensen's Star Legions is a 1992 video game published by Mindcraft.
Star Legions was based on the planetary assault module of Star Fleet II. This allowed for more detail control of ground troops landing on the planet.
The player has two different kind of troops: shock-troops and regular troops. The player's task is to first put their shock-troopers down on the planet and destroy its shields. Then they can land their regular troopers and invade the planet. The player could also bombard the planet first and then try to invade it.
It was notable for being an early Command & Conquer-like point and click game with speech.[citation needed]
Troops gain names and experience; after a successful fight, they receive a legion name, such as "Silver Snakes", and improve by recovering faster their suffered losses, because of the remaining veteran fighters.
Finally, the player gets different worlds to invade from primitive to very good developed planets who are more difficult to subdue.
Development and release
This game, published by Mindcraft, another affiliated label of Electronic Arts, was released in late 1992.
The game was designed and written by Trevor Sorensen, Mark Baldwin, and Brett Keeton with artwork by Richard Launius.
Although the initial release was buggy, two patches were soon available which fixed all the known bugs.
