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Ensemble's Age of Empires II engine retooled with blasters, shields, and the full weight of Star Wars lore.
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The definitive modern community expansion for Galactic Battlegrounds, introducing widescreen support, new civilizations, overhauled campaigns, and refined balance.
RTS / Strategy · 2001
That One Thing
Deploying Gungan energy shields and marching a phalanx of Imperial Mech AT-AT walkers across volcanic planets to the original John Williams score.
Expanding Fronts is a massive, fan-created expansion that revitalizes Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds for modern systems. Building upon the classic Genie Engine foundation, it introduces entire new playable factions including the Resistance, First Order, Zann Consortium, and Geonosians, while expanding existing rosters with authentic units and technologies from across the Star Wars timeline.
Critically, Expanding Fronts completely resolves resolution and rendering limitations of the 2001 release, integrating high-resolution widescreen rendering, smooth frame pacing, enhanced AI routines, and modernized multiplayer stability. It preserves full campaign compatibility alongside new and remastered scenarios, making it the premier way to experience Galactic Battlegrounds today.
A fan-created expansion that revitalises Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds for modern systems, adding factions, units and fixes.
Keeps a loved Star Wars RTS alive.
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Installed and played end to end by the PlayBound team.
Verified against the official Expanding Fronts ModDB distribution and community installation standard.
Ensemble's Age of Empires II engine retooled with blasters, shields, and the full weight of Star Wars lore.
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