nothing beats blowing up a rebel base with the deathstar, the rebels should be at a real handicap though
I know this is a build as much troupes as you can to destroy the opponent and all but isn't the rebels technically just starting out? So they should be a real handicap, producing 30x-wings and 20y-wings plus the various cruisers and what not to assault Corruscant twice in a row is not much of a handicap!
At first as the empire i noticed that funds weren't always as abundant but once you start completing various missions next thing you know you have 30,000 credits, it just seemed like yesterday you had nothing (only gaining 2,000-3000/day) i guess time flies when your conquering.
One thing i found is that the sound seems to cut in and out where you should be hearing blaster fire it is choppy it "skips" that could just be my sound card (SB LIVE) with eax turned on, or if you move the camera just a little away from the battle it gets real quite (i know surround sound effect and all but the battle wasn't in the distance). Age of empire 3 did a good job of that you could hear artillery in background but if they were on your camera the sound would be in foreground. The sound effects are perfect star wars effects that is great even the voice overs for the various characters a done pretty well you could almost swear it was actually them.
Another flaw I found is in space battles trying to select a group 99% of the time it would work but the odd time i would have to click somewhere totally different then go back and select the ships I wanted.
This game has a lot of replayablity (obviously) if you don't get bored first of it, if you have some friends that get this just imagine the lan party you could have. But if you have friends that don't care for strategy games maybe this one can turn them maybe not. Playing this by yourself will get boring fast sure you can play online against some stranger but nothing like beating your friend in the other room.