Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts work in progress.

[mbar]

I bought it. The purchasing process was new to me but I got it. Build your own ships and watch them fight. Good stuff. Runs great.

[Gusington]

Buying it later tonight, hopefully. It calls my name.

[MengJiao]

Looks great, I may have to jump in rather than wait for steam release.  The age of sail one looks great too, I'll probably get em both.

  I'm enjoying it.  Here HMS Agamemnon (a late pre-dreadnought sort of...) tries to close with two Imperial German Superdreadnoughts, hoping to use the 7-inch casement guns (30-seconds later she was blown to bits):

  This Italian armored cruiser was a more successful design..though with 6 11-inch guns and advanced fire-control III -- how can you miss.  She and her sisters inflicted a sort of little Tsushima  on the Russians.  Yes, it being a pretty Russian game those 1905-ish monsters are very much in the game:

[Gusington]

Bought it last night, will set it up in the next few days. So far the descriptions here are quite loin moistening.

[Sir Slash]

I smell a, 'What's Gus Playing' coming.  \m/

[Gusington]

It might just be this for the next 1000 installments.

[Tripoli]

I'm curious about this one. I have "Rule the Waves" and "Rule the Waves II".  It sounds similar , but with better graphics.  Has anyone played both?  If so, what is your verdict on the two games?

[Skoop]

I have neither, but I can guess that the Admiral game doesn't have the depth of rule the waves.  The Admiral game looks way more fun to play though.  If you own RTW, you must like the era so why not own both. 

[em2nought]

If you own RTW, you must like the era so why not own both.

I can see them being kind of complementary.   Get different things you're after from each. 


Shoot, now I'm kind of jonesing to take my computer out of the hands it's temporarily been placed into.  :dreamer:

[Gusington]

Installing now  <:-)

[Sir Slash]

Can you name your ships you build? Because that could result in some  :hide: moments.

[MengJiao]

Can you name your ships you build? Because that could result in some  :hide: moments.

Well -- its very alpha -- which can be fun of course but:

1) you can't name your ships
2) you don't even know what country you will be or who your enemies are until you launch.  The Italians crushing a Tsushima style Russian force was pretty unexpected!

[Grim.Reaper]

Can you name your ships you build? Because that could result in some  :hide: moments.

Well -- its very alpha -- which can be fun of course but:

1) you can't name your ships
2) you don't even know what country you will be or who your enemies are until you launch.  The Italians crushing a Tsushima style Russian force was pretty unexpected!

Can you elaborate on #2....you don't start the game as a specific country building ships for it?  How does the game assign you a country then?

[al_infierno]

Can you name your ships you build? Because that could result in some  :hide: moments.

Well -- its very alpha -- which can be fun of course but:

1) you can't name your ships
2) you don't even know what country you will be or who your enemies are until you launch.  The Italians crushing a Tsushima style Russian force was pretty unexpected!

Can you elaborate on #2....you don't start the game as a specific country building ships for it?  How does the game assign you a country then?

Right now there's no campaign mode implemented, just a series of pre-built scenarios designed to teach you the game.  The scenario descriptions don't tell you who you are or who you're facing, it just explains the objective and scenario details and drops you into the ship designer.

EDIT:  I spoke too soon, you can see the national flag sailing on your ship during the designer.

[DennisS]

I'm curious about this one. I have "Rule the Waves" and "Rule the Waves II".  It sounds similar , but with better graphics.  Has anyone played both?  If so, what is your verdict on the two games?

I have both, and love both. Personally, RTW II is superior, as it adds naval aviation.