The graphics look like something out of 1980 but you won't care. You take on the job of head of a navy (US, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Russia and Austria with 'custom nations' available for Spain and the CSA - I'm building one for Byzantium tonight). You have a budget, you have to design and construct ships, deal with training and research. Once your ships are built, events will increase tension until you are at war with someone - usually you can influence the events but at a cost of prestige and budget. When war breaks out, every month you get opportunities to take your fleet (or parts of it) into battle. Let me mention that each nation has its 'trends' in ship design and the AI is very - very - very damned -- clever.
The construction system is fine - a little easy on tonnage, meaning you get to crowd a bit more into a ship than they historically could, but overall it's the best I've ever seen, and it literally 'builds' the ship in a deck view as you work. The combat system melds player control with AI control, so you may be steering your battle-line while the AI runs your cruisers and destroyers. The combat results are realistic, reasonable, absorbing and frustrating - if not the best representation of actual command I've ever seen then damn close. The tactical system is based on NWS's 'Steam and Iron' game (WW1 and there's a variant that covers the Russo-Japanese War), and I'm impressed enough I'll probably buy that too - maybe a Christmas present.
I just spent 25 years as Italy trying to keep up in battleships with Austria - I built big and good, they built small and cheap, but it was still hard to win. My armored cruisers roamed the seas as commerce raiders, and eventually that got me victories. Favorite event? Britain offered me an alliance as soon as I got into a war with Germany (heh). Favorite battle? Got the Austrian battlecruisers separated from their fleet, pinned them between my BCs and my battle-line. Blew one up and torpedoed the other as they tried a death-ride for port...
Win a war and you can get colonial possessions. You can even get to pick a ship as 'war reparations'. Heaven.
I'll be playing this one for a long time. 'Rule the Waves' is a steal at $35 US. As I say the graphics are crude, but you will not care. Go Google 'Rule the Waves' or go look up some 'Lets Play' videos on YouTube. I cannot strongly enough urge anyone who has an interest in naval games to go look at this one.
Now I've got to go fight my war with Austria while hoping Germany finishes my 'Autokrator' class battleship. I'm building it in a German yard and praying they deliver it instead of keeping it... it's a semi-dreadnought beast with 4x12" and 12x8" guns, 10" armor and 22 knots. Heh. Bet Austria didn't see that coming. Wheeeeeeee!!!
Hey thanks for the informative answer. I went to check videos of it in Youtube and the strategy depth seemed awesome in a naval game but unfortunately, I am a hardcore strategy player of the newer generation, which means my petty pleb brain is automatically predisposed to like shiny graphics and cute maps (I blame Nintendo and Bill Gates - I don't know why Gates but still). When you said the game looked as if it was from the 1980s...you were totally right. What a shame, really, because if they had higher and more advanced graphics, I'm sure a whole new cast of younger strategy players would be into it. I was really digging the budget and many classes of vessels. Just from casually observing it, it looks like a well thought out strategy piece.
Does it have newer sequels ? Did the studio that produced it makes other games?
cheers
No offense. But i hate you. I cant stop playing.
I know right. Everytime I play Agario I get this guilty feeling that I could be doing something a bit more productive instead of fighting for survival in a virtual cell petri dish against thousands of players..
.but it is all worth it when you eat someone smaller than you.
I managed to stay on the 3rd place for a while
Nice
I myself mostly get to 5th place only. I find it quite hard to go beyond that although one time I reached 1st place for a few minutes hehe
In case anyone was playing while I was, i was penis.
In case anyone was playing while I was, I was Hitler.
Sometimes, I also write SS Wehrmacht.
It's funny when the players using the german and prussian flags as their cell avatar get close to me for protection or at most have a non-threatening and sometimes friendly attitude when I use those names. LOL I am so serious here!
It's funny you guys mentioned agar.io, in my college we play it on the same server whenever we're in the computer rooms. It gets so intense
Wow I never played Agario with friends on many computers but I agree, it must get very intense. I also play it in college sometimes and laugh my ass off when going on a cell rampage. I know some people notice it sometimes
hehe
I know how you feel, I bought legacy of the void a few days ago and have ended up putting more hours in as a cell fighting for survival!
Survival of the fittest is something us humans enjoy a lot apparently
I tried playing Agario after reading the comments here...for some reason it doesn't even load. Forever stuck at 'connecting'.
If you are looking for a PC game, I hear
Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations is a really hardcore simulation of strategy where you can simulate anything and everything of the modern warfare related to sea and air, and probably land as well. You can conduct anything from a tiny sea patrol to a full-on military operation ranging thousands of miles. They have a gigantic database of every known equipment from the later Cold War onwards, and there are modded databases that add things from WW2 and such. There are also scenarios about some wars I think, there was at least one about India-Pakistan war. And there is an editor so you can make scenarios or units/equipment yourself.
It is available on Steam, although it isn't that cheap.
The thing is, the real hardcore strategy games that I know of are all real-life wargames.
Gary Grigsby's games are renowned, and there is one on Steam I think.
That's a shame.
Try playing Agario on a different browser or just wait a bit but eventually you'll be able to play it. Check out the video in youtube from indian players playing Agario. Its cool.
Also, thanks I'm going to check out CMANO on youtube and see what is it about. Hopefully its something similar to what I'm looking for, thanks again
Oh and one thing. I don't know why but I do not want to buy Gary Grigsby game because I must be faithful to Paradox WW2 games. Also, GG War in the East seems way too detailed and OCD for my taste.
