Sword of the Stars: Born of Blood is the expansion pack

Expansion pack

An expansion pack, expansion set, or supplement is an addition to an existing role-playing game, tabletop game or video game. These add-ons usually add new game areas, weapons, objects, and/or an extended storyline to a complete and already released game...

 to Sword of the Stars

Sword of the Stars

Sword of the Stars is a space 4X game developed by Kerberos Productions. In the game the player chooses one of four unique races to form an interstellar empire and conquer the galaxy...

, a turn-based strategy

Turn-based strategy

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 game for the PC released June 2007. Born of Blood was developed by Kerberos Productions

Kerberos Productions

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 and published by Lighthouse Interactive

Lighthouse Interactive

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. It is notable for receiving Gamespot

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's first merit, the terrific voice acting merit.

New technologies

The 1.4.1 version included new features such as ability to roll ships during combat. This was added because even though the orders are issued on a 2d plane, ships still move on the vertical plane to avoid collision; most of the time the computer controlled ships went beneath your ships in this case, which allowed the computer to concentrate guns on the area of the ship that barely had any heavy weapons (the bottom of the ship).

Patch history

The newest version of this expansion is 1.5.3. This was the last patch specifically intended for the Born of Blood expansion, as a second expansion, called A Murder of Crows, was launched in October 2008.

External links

• Born of blood official site
• Born of blood official forum