I'm glad to see Armada I and II are getting a new life again. So I feel it's time to shamelessly promote my mod here. It's a mod based on the popular Fleet Ops mod for Armada II but it has gameplay more in the style of Armada I, with smaller fleets (though still many more than 8) that last longer in fights and are less disposable. Each faction has 8 ship classes with defined roles that stay useful throughout the whole game, no more simple battleship spamming once you get through the tech tree.

The factions are: Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Cardassian, Dominion and Borg. Each faction has a slightly different optimal playstyle, for example the Dominion are the swarm faction, especially during the early game, the Borg are a defensive faction that is slow to get going but dominates the late-game, Klingon ships are extra fast and can slow down enemy ships, so they're good at raiding, the Romulans are slow and cumbersome but their first few volleys are extra powerful, they can cloak almost instantanteously, their artillery ships can fire while cloaked and they have a suite of special weapons, making them a micro-intensive faction that can pull off devastating ambushes.

You can just install the mod over the GOG-version of the mod, or even in a separate folder and it should still work if you link to the game.exe in that folder.

Screenshots can be found here

The mod can be downloaded here