I remember I originally got this on a disk in a box of Kellogg's Nutri-Grain. Got it on Steam recently and it didn't work out-the-box with proton; but the community expansion (virtually an entirely rebuilt game) works perfectly.

To get the community expansion to work simply:

  • download the Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds Expanding Fronts .zip
  • unzip the content into the head folder which, for me was: ~/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/'STAR WARS - Galactic Battlegrounds Saga'
  • drag and drop the contents of the newly generated GAME folder into the folder named Game and accept all merges and replacements.
  • in the Game folder, delete the current player.exe and rename the file battlegrounds_x2.exe to player.exe
  • on launching the game in steam or however you acquired the original game, you will get a configuration screen, mess with the resolution in the configuration screen, it took me three changes to get mine perfect.
  • invo_rt [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Clearly a reskin of AoE2, but it was fun. Never tried the campaign, but played a good amount of the multiplayer way back when.

    • RonaldMcReagan [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      As is tradition with AoE and AoE clones, I spent a lifetime just map making for skirmishes :read-theory: