Ironclads: High Seas

I wanted to love this game. History and alternate history stories have been a hobby of mine as far back as I can remember and the US Civil war is one of my favorite periods. The idea of the Confederates gaining the naval strength to go toe to toe with the Union navy is one of my favorite What Ifs of the war and there as so few naval foused games, especially set in this period, that it seemed like a match made in heaven. Where things went wrong. 1: You can only control the flagship of a squadron directly. In fact you can't give any orders to the other ships at all and can't even order your ships into battle formation as far as I can tell. 2: The flagship's controls are far too clunky and the flagships will sometimes switch their engines to full reverse for no apparent reason. 3: Battles take forever even with the turbo speed option engaged. I played one battle for almost an hour. Not only was the battle not over but none of the 13 ships involved had been sunk or surrendered and the most heavily damaged had only taken around 65 percent damage. This ship started fleeing at 60 percent damage but fled through the heart of my nearest squadron guns blazing rather then running away and soon rejoined its squadron for their next pass. 4: There aren't enough ship classes in the game. There are six ship classes but each side only has three warship classes to choose from. Though I will say that I was pleasantly surprised when I realized they didn't just have both sides using the same ship classes they really need more choices in fleet makeup,

Tags: Tactical - Squad & Military Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Improper ship combat interactivity. Feels unsatisfying to try to play herding cards with the clusmy controls, unrealistic combat and dubious pathfinding. Review: This game be so slow that even on fast forward I thought it was turn based for 3 whole minutes. It is everything I hate about naval combat. Ships take forever to turn, you gotta like... snake your ships around to maximum damage around the enemy. ships fire in a straight line despite cannons being side to side on ships, friendly units fire through each other as if they did not exist. One of the most braindead, slow unappealing pc entertainment products around. Its also just a reskin of the russian american version of this game. Whatever man

dobra giera, wybieramy strone, kupujemy statek no i zaczynamy gre, potem gra sie konczy i nastepna misja, calkiem dobra gra

jeu immonde. les graphismes dégueulasses ne représentent que la partie visible de l'iceberg. Il faut en plus comprendre le but du jeu et la prise en main. aucun tuto, rien d'explicatif, vous êtes largués au commande d'une flotte qui ne repond à rien. Pas de tuto, sur un jeu de stratégie, on commence mal, mais en plus, la campagne brille par son absence. le wargame du pauvre. berk.

I'm not much of a fan of the Ironclads series, but this is kind of beyond a lack of being a fan. It's just... dull and boring. The ocean is smooth, like an orange. Ship combat is..... well.. It happens. But I guess I just found the experience very boring.

+The game is cheap even when it's not on sale. +The game is simple and easy to get the hang of. +The game has so much potential for being good. +/- You are likely to lose ships due to damage over time rather than enemy gun fire. The game will only note ships destroyed by gun fire. +/- The game is almost too simply to be realistic. +/-The title says "High seas" so I cannot blame the game for taking place in the middle of the ocean with close to unlimited area. Eventhough a lot of the vessels used are restricted to costal duties. +/-Not a single cloud in the sky, no wind, no waves, no thunderstoms or fog... This game would be awesome if it was in a fog and you would have to listen for horns and bells. +/-2 hours of sailing around. Even more in major battles... Enjoy. +/-If the game was WASD controlled instead of arrow keys, the game would be much nicer to control. +/-Flooding and fires have their own process rather than just doing direct damage. There is no way to stop them once started. +/-While all the other games have titles implying the conflict in question, this one is just called "High seas" -HERE COMES THE LIST- -There is a lot of DLC and packs for this unpolished game, none of them have anything exciting to offer. -There is only 1 cannon soundeffect, 1 impact soundeffect and 1 splash soundeffekt... From 6 diffrent warships with diffrent guns... and types of hull. -Although you are in control, you cannot make ships break line formations to preform manouvers. -The camera is aweful, rather than remembering what view you were on when looking at ship A, it will keep the same view when you skip to ship B which is fighting an enemy in the oppersit direction. You are fighting the camera all the time. -The game lacks propper options. -Expensive ships are easily overtaken by cheap ships due to pivot guns and turrets. Nothing else really matters besides speed. -Pretty damn boring. -There is always something that doesn't work in the game. -Ramming does no damage but makes your computer vomit as it has no idea how to deal with it. It also disables speed up. -Formations often crash together and get stuck because the game can't handle ramming physics. -You are limited to 3 squads of ships while the game is sluggish enough for players to control 5 single ships. -Once you've compleated your first battle... there is little to nothing new in the game. Unless you bother play till you can buy a bigger ship which can do the same things... -The models and scales are somewhat lazy. -I have incountered several gameplays where guns do 0 damage or won't fire at all. -This game is so simply it's amazing it doesn't just work. -You have to pay for the game.

best cup of tea game

Personally I love this game, though unfortunately it doesn't get any updates or anything to add to the experience.

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