Ntronium Games have announced that they are working on Armada 2526: Supernova, the first expansion to their fantastic 4x strategy game Armada 2526. Jam packed with new races, technologies, stars, ships and weapons it will blow Armada 2526 to new heights.

With new star and planets types to discover Supernova is overflowing with more to explore, exploit and exterminate with a brand new trade system that lets you construct networks to trade commodities between your stars, and other players. This allows you to use them against your opponents as much as to draw them in by placing trade embargoes, attacking their freighters and planting spies to steal technological secrets or sabotage defenses.

However the best bit of new concerning Armada 2526: Supernova is that it will allow a multiplayer experience, other than hot seat gaming, this was one of the biggest irks that we had with the core game, and we are delighted to say that Supernova will support Mulitplayer LAN and PBEM.

Armada 2526 is set to ship in April 2011, we can't wait to fight our enemies over LAN. For a little more insight on what Supernova will give you, check out the trailer.