Great. I am looking forward to it!

I find it quite strange that there are no reviews available of this game. I hope they come soon.

There's more then a few reasons for that I think. Partly because it's been put out by a smaller developer, partly because it's not getting any shelf space in stores. There's also a lot of little things still wrong with the game in my oppinion which you'll see when you read the review I'm putting up later tonight.

Don't get me wrong, it's a decent game. It's HIGHLY moddable which is a good thing. It still needs a lot of work in some areas though.

Sounds like the game was a victim of 'Holiday Release Rush'.  It clearly could have used a couple more months of work to hammer out all the bugs, but the publisher said 'too bad, ship it NOW'.  If Impulse is withholding on carrying it because they were not satisfied the release version meets standards, then that's another point for Impulse in my books.  Patch support for small independent companies is going to be dubious at best, so I am glad to see Impulse denying them 'shelf space' until they can prove the game is stable and playable from start to finish without major incident.

Armada 2526 is finally available on Impulsedriven.com

http://impulsedriven.com/armada2526

Bit pricey !!! For European people, it is almost the half of the price on Impulse that on Matrix game !!!

You wish a quick review !!! Let go... don't buy it until they release they first patch... the game have a lot of potential but a huge memory leak plag it... if you forget to save in time, will you soon seen the usual "not enough memory for save" !!! In fact, i consider the game to be a huge beta... a lot of thing was promise for the first patch but we are always waiting these patch... they seem not to be fast like Stardock/Ironclad for correct problems...

The game in itself is interesting, specialy if you are more strategie that graphic... if you buy it, for the time being, limit yourself on standart map and regulary save your game... once memory problem appear, simply stop and restart the game and load the save game... be aware that the game is not like sins, and not like any totalwar... and modding is really not practical now since you can only mod on your original file ( not modding directory )...

If there is no or almost no official review of the game, it is simply because nothing in the game is worthy one... there is nothing special in these game... no super AI, no online game, no good graphic, and a few problems !!! To be honest, when i play with it, it seem that i am back to the time of DOS game, 3D battle are more like a good old space invader...

Positive point are a potential huge universe ( i wrote potential because the memory leak make it difficult )... almost all file can be modded ( all if you use a special xls file for generate new one for the few who was in binary )... research trre is good and complex... and diplomacy is enough good too...

EDIT : almost forget... if you have a Nvidia graphic card, you are obligate to play with everything on the lower setting... else it crash at the first battle !!!

that was no review, just stupid trashing.

Can you explain what it is "just stupid trashing" ?

Is there or not a memory leak ?

Is there or not problem with Nvidia card ?

Is there a mod folder or do you need to modify the original files?

For info, review are not only about positive side, negative side need to be exposed too... this game can become a good game only if problem are resolved... and sure, it is not with using the word "stupid" that problem will be resolved...

By the way, in place of insult the post of someone other, what stop you to make you own honest review ?

While I agree with most of your points, I find this one a little perplexing. Is it only certain cards? I have a GTX260 ran it with graphics full and experienced no crashes with the battles.

Part of the memory issues also seem to stem from being able to create too large a galaxy and running up against the 32bit 2GB limit. That's something that seems like it will be hard to solve without scaling back the available sizes.

Good thing is that the Devs seem involved in the community and listening to feedback. How this translates to improvements only time will tell. With how small the developer is I wouldn't look for any overnight miracles in the patch department though.

I think that it is more related to the driver version that the card itself... it seem that only people with the last official version of the nvidia driver have problem... for now, the only common thing is that people with these problem share a Nvidia card... myself, i have a Nv 8800 ultra and a 9600 Gs... and for both gard, i have no problem... but i use the CUDA version of the driver, beta version...

In fact, sins itself have know problem at the launch too... there was a Nvidia problem who was resolved by a new driver version, or a Vista problem who was resolved by a microsoft kb update...

So, it is very possible that the problem is externe... but something like this have can be detected in the Beta testing periode if these was more long and using more beta tester...

Part of the memory issues also seem to stem from being able to create too large a galaxy and running up against the 32bit 2GB limit. That's something that seems like it will be hard to solve without scaling back the available sizes.

With standart map, you have the same problem... it is more related to time that size... start a game, make a few turn and be busy with something other for a few hours... come back and the game will have grow near the 2gb limit... simply save and reload the game can resolve the memory use... having a game using almost 1.6gb and beginning have the "short in memory" message, i have save it and reload it... result was a game only using 300-400 mb...

Good thing is that the Devs seem involved in the community and listening to feedback. How this translates to improvements only time will tell. With how small the developer is I wouldn't look for any overnight miracles in the patch department though.

Yes, Devs or/and distributor seem to be good involved in their respective forum... Ntronium being newcomers, i don't know them but i know Matrix game... i have other game from them and 10 years after, they are always making patch... not always for correct bug but in some case, for expend unit database or new way the AI work...

The small devs is not a excuse... Ironclad is a small devs and they are able to release a patch for sins in case of problem, 24 hours after the previous patch !!! I think that it is more a money problem... Sins have become a world success very fast, since money was good due to success, it is more easy to have people working on patch... Armada was almost not noticed, i am not sure that the sale are big annd so, it mean more lower money income... if no enough money is earn, devs will not begin to work for free... so, it can be possible that these game will never have any patch !!! And i really hope that i am wrong because these game have a huge potential... the majority of the actual problem have can be resolved with a bigger and longer Beta phase... for compare, see how long are the beta phase for the expension of sins of solar empire ( Entrenchment, Diplomacy )...

Your avatar says it all The Homeworld series was really a blast!

So I guess that you are more into the RTS part of space strategy games right? Armada 2526 is more for people that played Master of Orion 1, 2, Space Empires, Star Trek BOTF and the Galactic Civilizations series, i.e. the pure 4x space strategy afficionados. But if you like the 3D real-time battles and if you also liked to play pure 4x in the past than you should consider giving Armada 2526 a try. When properly patched it will be a great sucessor for the former titles.

The devs are already working on it: http://ntronium.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=376.0

The next patch will cover the following.

Improved Bureaucracy. Effect reduced and capped. Scales with size of map. Additional settings to reduce or disable.
Mod System. Fully or partially replaces files for mods. Use multiple mods at once. Even supports mods for mods.
Cost and factor re-balance to increase fleet sizes and make ground units more important.
Ability to place transports under ai control to automatically distribute population. Immigration and emigration controls for each planet
Hopefully, some improvement in problems saving large games.
Saves custom game settings

Should be done early in the new year.

The patch after will probably be concerned with the following
Bug fixes
Improved UI features
More things exposed for modders, plus one or two feature requests
Improved A.I.

Sorry for disapointing some people, but for me Armada 2526 doesn't feel fun. Thats how the game is now for me.

Armada 2526 is mostly compared with MoOII, but when you play MoOII do you feel the love in the Grafik, A2526 is just cold and sterile.

The tech tree is strange, I dont like it to research a given Ship, I prefer to reserch the Hull, the Engine, the weapons and the Defense for itself and then put it together in my own style. (The tech tree of MoOII is still the best with so much diversity and decisions to make.) Another strange point is, that you have to build first the higher Tech(Biosphere) that you can build the lower tech, which you have to resarch to get the higher tech, but is absolutly useless until you build the higher tech. 

The Battles are just chaotic and loveless.

So the whole game feels half baked.

I hope further patches will make this game to a lil 4X jewel. But I'm a little bit bit afraid that it wouldn't be enough for me.