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__Battle Group in a Sentence__

Battle Group is an MMOG (Massively Multplayer Online Game) where players control groups of ships, called battle groups and form huge fleets to take part in a vast interstellar battles ranging from a dozen or so ships, to many many hundreds.


 * In Detail**

Battle Group is a game of vast interstellar combat. Players choose to join one of four races, begin to assemble a battlegroup and then find a mobilizing fleet(collection of battle groups) to go and attack enemy territory. Unlike other starship based games such as Elite, the X series and Eve-Online, Battle Group has several important differences. Firstly it is exclusively combat based. Secondly the player never flies small fighter or bomber sized ships. The player instead starts in a basic Corvette sized ship - a corvette is an escort for capital class vessels.

Throughout their time playing the game, players would aquire Command Points which can be spent on better ships and equipment with which to do battle. This would include Command Upgrades which would allow them to command more ships. The more enemy ships you destroy and the more territory you help to secure (or defend) will be rewarded with said command points.

The four races (or factions) of Battle Group are:

//The Terran Union:// Human empire that is trying to defend its borders from a totally chaotic galaxy. //The Hive:// A race of space faring insects controlled by their few but powerful queens. No one knows what they want but they seem to be spreading and destroying as they go. //The Marg'ih:// Barbaricly warfaric race who's only purpose is to find fights and win them, they are at war with everyone in the galaxy all the time and want nothing more than to crush it all. //The Reclann:// Hugely advanced but conquered and almost exterminated by the Marg'ih//,// having broke free of the Marg'ih they went from peaceful to utterly consumed by hatred for all non-Reclann and wish to purge the galaxy of all 'dangerous' intelligent life to safeguard themselves.


 * Platform(s)**

Initially it will be a graphically scalable PC only release. If this proves profitable, the required licensing agreements can be made and there are no technical limitations that are crippling, Battle Group would be ported to the Xbox 360 (or its equivilant at the time) and the PS3 for and expanded market/playerbase.

The game would be controlled on the PC through numerous keyboard binds and the Mouse. On the consoles there would be equivilent M/KB support but more geared towards Gamepad support.
 * Controls**


 * Target Audience**

Pretty much anyone who enjoys video games and science fiction.