Clockwork Dawn

Overall, I like this game a lot. The developer has been very responsive to comments in a positive manner. It still has some flaws-most notably the lack of a badly needed tutorial. I've managed to parse out most of the game mechanics with some aid from Spacecrab, but there are still some grey areas. The most important one at the moment is trying to declare war on another country. In order to declare war, you need to establish a claim on one of their territories. So far my efforts to establish a claim on anyone's soil have yielded NO results. In warfare itself, the balance of forces doesn't always give victory even when it seems like it ought to. In one game I was playing as the British Empire and the United States declared war on me (note that the AI has no trouble declaring war on you!). I created a large fleet consisting mainly of Ironclads and sent it over to teach the Yankees a lesson. My fleet was met by an American force of less than half the size of my Fleet which then roundly defeated me without suffering a single loss. ???????!!! Those quibbles aside, it is a decent game and promises to become a really great one if the developer keeps up their efforts. I love Steampunk and grand strategy and this game supplies both in good measure.