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				<p>Allegiance is a free, online, multi-player space simulation game. You pilot spacecraft to defend and attack targets in sectors connected through wormholes. Your team is led by a Commander who makes tactical decisions and invests in technology and bases.</p> 

				<p>Flight and combat is done in first person view, with a top-down 'Command view' also available.</p>

				<p>Allegiance is about tactics and coordination, knowing your ordnance, where to be and what you should be doing. You'll be able to play several roles each game, depending on the technology path your Commander has chosen:<p>
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					<li><strong>Scouting</strong>: Scouts can easily locate asteroids and wormholes, pinpoint enemy movements, salvage technology and deploy probes and minefields. </li>
					<li><strong>Escort missions</strong>: Miners, constructors, regular bombers and troop transports are defended by scouts carrying nanite repair guns.</li>
					<li><strong>Attack and Defense</strong>: Flying fighters and interceptors, your duty will be to disable the enemy's economy and expansion and protect your own.</li>
					<li><strong>Stealth ops</strong>: Cloak technology, keeping a low signature and destroying probes allows you to sneak unseen into enemy territory and ambush your target.</li>
	<li><strong>Gunning</strong>: Many medium-heavy ships and advanced small ships have additional seats to man powerful, long range turrets.</li>
					<li><strong>Capturing and destroying bases</strong>: Either with escorted formations, bomber squads or steamrolling capital ships, you'll have to destroy the enemy bases to disable their technologic capabilities, take control of key sectors and ultimately win the game.</li>
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				<p>On average, about thirty people participate in each game (15 per team). A typical game lasts between thirty and forty-five minutes. The main settings core has over 40 playable maps and nine different factions, each with at least five techpaths.</p>

				<p>Allegiance is a great game because:</p>
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		    		<li>It's free.</li>
		    		<li>It can run on pretty much any computer, on any connection speed (see system requirements).</li>
					<li>No other game out there offers as much diversity, nor is as teamwork orientated as Allegiance. No matter what role you choose to fulfill - whether it be dogfighter, scout, bomber, Commander, or something else entirely - your efforts will make a difference to the outcome of the game. </li>
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