Armada Hot Keys

Keyboard Commands 
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Hot Keys and Grouping Units
*Global Keys Function*
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Ctrl+F1- Minimize/Restore Minimap
Ctrl+F2- Minimize/Restore Ship Display
Ctrl+F3- Minimize/Restore Speed Rail
Ctrl+F4- Minimize/Restore Cinematic Window
Ctrl+F5- Minimize/Restore Button Menu
Ctrl+F6- Minimize/Restore Comm Menu (Multiplayer Only)
Ctrl+F7- Minimize/Restore Resource Display
Alt+F1 – F7- Minimize/Restore the above interface elements without autohide
Alt–(Drag interface element)- Move interface element to desired location
Ctrl+F9- Restores interface to Default Configuration
Alt+F9- Restores interface to arrangement at the beginning of the mission

Enter- Chat message box.
Ctrl+X- Switch to main menu and pause game.
G- Grid toggle.
Pause- Pause the game.
0-9- Deselect current units and select units in the numbered group.

Shift 0-9 Deselect current units and select units in the numbered group. AND Center Screen on current group.

Control 0-9# Bind a unit to a group, one unit can
be bound to more than one group.

Alt 0-9# Bind a unit to a group, removes units from other groups that it is currently bound to.

E- Select All on Screen
N- Select next unit (Red Alert)
Control+M- Objectives Box toggle 
Shift 0-9- Will center on the selected group

Control- Holding control down when you have a group of ships selected makes all the ships move at the speed of the slowest ship.

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*Unit Selected Function*
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A- Attack
S- Stop
M- Move
O- Orders
R- Repair and Recrew
B- Build
T- Transport
D- Harvest Dilithium
F1-F6 Special Weapon 1-6
Shift-S- Stand Down 
F5- Cloak
F5- Fire Klingon Shockwave (Superweapon ship only)
F5- Fire Romulan Rift (Superweapon ship only)

Tab- Hold while left clicking locations to set a path composed of way points, then release to finish the path
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*Building Selected Function*
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A- Attack
B- Build (including pods)
T- Transport
O- Orders
R- Recrew
S- Stop
Shift-T Special Transport
P- Set Rally Point
U- Officer Upgrade (Starbase only)
F5- Open Transwarp Gate (Borg Superweapon building only)
F5- Stop time (Federation Superweapon building only)
F- Dilithium Freighter (Collector)
Shift-C- Cancel
B- Back
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*Federation Shipyard Build Screen Selected*
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V- Venture-class Scout
D- Defiant-class Destroyer
S- Steamrunner-class Torpedo Cruiser
A- Akira-class Phaser Cruiser
B- Back
Shift-C- Cancel

*Federation Advanced Shipyard*
S- Sovereign-class Battleship
L- Nebula-class Research Ship
B- Back
Shift-C- Cancel
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*Klingon Shipyard Build Screen Selected Function*
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D- NuQ’Duj-class Scout
P- Bird of Prey (B’rel-class) Destroyer
V- Vor’cha-class Cruiser
S- SuQ’Jagh-class Assault Ship
B- Back
Shift-C- Cancel

*Imperial Shipyard*
V Negh’Var-class Battleship
F Fek’Lhr-class Science Ship
B- Back
Shift-C- Cancel
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*Romulan Shipyard Build Screen Selected Function*
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L- Talon-class Scout
S- Shrike-class Destroyer
R- Raptor-class Cruiser
F- Griffin-class Phaser Cruiser
B- Back
Shift-C- Cancel

*Romulan Advanced Shipyard*
W- Warbird-class Battleship
S- Shadow-class Infiltration Ship
B- Back
Shift-C- Cancel
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*Borg Assembly Matrix Selected Function*
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D- Detector
I- Interceptor
A- Assimilator
S- Sphere
B- Back
Shift-C- Cancel

*Borg Advanced Assembly*
C- Cube
D- Diamond
B- Back
Shift-C- Cancel
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*Construction Ship Build Screen Selected Function*
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S- Starbase
D- Dilithium Mining Station
Y- Shipyard
V- Advanced Shipyard
R- Research Facility
C- Science Station
P- Pulse Cannon
U- Torpedo Turret
M- Temporal Research Facility, W- Transwarp Gate, X- Phoenix Facility, I- Shockwave Station
A- Sensor Array
B- Back
Shift-C- Cancel

F3: Vendetta Mission

In Star Trek Armada *all missions are controlled by "Flags" witch are checkpoints the player must hit before continuing or even finishing the mission.

*NOTE: Most missions have you muster through them. but some missions have exceptions ex. B2 Assimilation. 

Vendetta is listed here because players may think they can rush through until the last wormhole. Sadly this is not the case, between flag 5 and 6 there is a sequence in witch 6 Klingon Birds of prey attack the Avenger. 

If these 6 ships are not destroyed the game will not check the next flag allowing you to beat the mission. Sadly in this case if you were to continue to the last wormhole without all 6 Klingon ships destroyed the mission will fail and cause the Avenger to be destroyed upon entering the wormhole. 

In a logical standpoint this makes 0 sense as the goal of the mission entirely is to get to the last wormhole, But it's how it was programmed so it's how we must exploit.

Installing Star Trek Armada on Windows 10 (CD/ISO Copy)

*PLEASE NOTE*
Star Trek Armada is available on GOG. If you do own a physical copy and do not wish to go through this process, I recommend just re-buying the game on GOG.

Here is a link to a visual guide along with more information on the Star Trek Armada Map Editor.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rhjlrxq64671djfqjcpfo/Installing-Star-Trek-Armada-On-Windows-10.docx?dl=0&rlkey=iewjr34qpk31g72ei30y7pgfl

If you do not wish to follow the visual guide you may follow the steps below. 

STEP1: Installing Star Trek Armada

When installing Star Trek Armada on Windows 10 it’s not as straight forward as one may seem.
1. First, we must mount the ISO/BSA.

2. We can mount the ISO/BSA with either windows 10 itself if it is an ISO or by using Power ISO

3. Right click on the drive itself that Armada has been mounted to and select open

4. Then double click the set-up folder

5. We should now be in the initial setup folder for Star Trek Armada, we need to Run the Setup as Admin, Right click on the setup.exe and select Run as Administrator

6.Install Star Trek Armada to whichever directory you wish, now that if you wish to change the directory to another drive please use the following location path with the X being which drive you wish ST armada to be.
X:\Activision\StarTrek–Armada

STEP2: Patching Star Trek Armada

1.After the installation process please Install both patches 1.2 and 1.3

You can get patch 1.2 under the recourses tab. Patch 1.3 is available with the link provided below.

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/star-trek-armada-bcg#download

***NOTE: The GOG Versions of the game run on Patch 1.2 Please advise the moderator before attempting any runs on version 1.3

STEP 3: Installing dgVoodoo
*NOTE: Being that dgVoodoo is a thirdparty software updates may cause changes to the U.I and or how it may affect working with Star Trek Armada

1. After installing both patches, we are going to need dgVoodoo which can be obtained from the internet please note that the settings below pertain to Version 2.53 of dgVoodoo and later versions may not produce the same result. 

2.After dgVoodoo is downloaded
we are going get a compressed file with a folder in it ladled MS and 3Dfx, The .DLL
files and the napalm folder along with the actual dgVoodoosetup.exe need to get transferred to the main directory of
the Star Trek Armada installation

for example X:\Activision\Star Trek–Armada
X being the drive you initially installed the game to.

D3D8.dll
D3Dlmm
.dll
DDRaw.dll
dgVoodooSetup.exe
Glide.dll
Glidex3.dll
Glidex4.dll
Napalm
All of these need to get transferred to the main directory of Sar Trek Armada.

3.Once transferred over we need to make sure dgVoodoo has these settings
GENERAL:
Output API: Direct3D 11 Ft lvl 10.1
Adapters: all of them
Full screen output: Default
Appearance: Windowed screeched
Misc: Keep windows aspect ratio (checked) 

GLIDE:
3Dfx card: Voodoo 2 (8mb/128,2TMUs - Onboard Ram: 8mb
Texturing: Memory size 4096kb - Number of TMUS: 2  
Resolution: Unforced MSAA: App driven
Misc: Enable glide gamma ramp (checked) - Force Vsync: (checked) 

DIRECTX
Videocard: dgVoodoo Virtual 3D Accelerated Card - VRAM: 128mb
Resolution: Unforced 
Behavior: Application controlled fullscreen (checked) - MSAA: 8x
Misc: Bilinear bit stretch  (checked)


4. Once all of the criteria have been met Launch the Armada.exe from the main directory

LAUNCH STAR TREK ARMADA

Upon launching Star Trek Armada, it should load the initial Activision launch video. Once finished or if skipped you will begreeted by the Armada main menu, however it will not look the way Armada should, it will not be full screen and the .gif files
that play in the menu will not be active, however the menu will be fully active
Once on the main menu the game should be 100% fully functional,
you can change the game resolution to fit your
current Monitor resolution.
*NOTE: The in-game menus will NEVER fullscreen but will be fully operational, to fullscreen once in-game hit Alt-Enter

Name	Author
Armada Hot Keys	BillShamrock 1 year ago
F3: Vendetta Mission	BillShamrock 1 year ago
Installing Star Trek Armada on Windows 10 (CD/ISO Copy)	BillShamrock 1 year ago