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Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is a strategy game about commanding fleets in 3D tactical space battles. You fight in the Second Contact War through a branching campaign of over 60 missions, or create scenarios for skirmish battles. You issue orders and watch them play out in pausable real time, using positioning, flanking manoeuvres and fleet coordination to exploit enemy weaknesses.

The Second Contact War

In the 22nd century, humanity leaves a dying Earth and settles on Novus. The first encounter with the nautilid ends in hostilities, confusion and sacrifice. Fourteen years later, Novus’s leaders remain politically entangled, while dangers persist both beyond the colony and within it. You decide the war’s outcome and help shape the future of humanity’s second home.

The nautilid use disruption fields, bio-missiles and proximity mines. The Remnant, a group of renegade military conspiracists, also opposes your command. Against them, you raise your capital ships’ shields and engage in broadside combat.

Command your fleet

You command six classes of assault ships: Raiders, Corvettes, Frigates, Destroyers, Battlecruisers and Dreadnoughts. Each has its own weapons fitouts and functions. The swift Swordfish Raiders can make precision strikes, while the Kraken Dreadnought is a hulking ship to command from the bridge.

You can call in reinforcements equipped with stun guns, guided missiles, unmanned fighter drones and single-focus DEW beams. You also balance each ship’s energy core to emphasise defence, speed or attack, and tailor your fleet’s arsenal of crew abilities as it grows.

Crew and command

You manage your crew’s personalities and morale to give your flagship an advantage in battle. Each crew member you enlist has personality traits, abilities and a story. Your actions are measured against the War Scale, from calculated tactical bombardments to aggressive, reckless assaults.

The war has no turning back. You choose who will be saved and can order reinforcements to replace destroyed veteran ships, with decisions that shape Novus’s future.