War on the Sea

Still clunky and problematic after all these years. Came back to see if it improved, saving a game doesn't even work.... nope.

Basic things are just bad, like going to tactical view and my submarine starting in the middle of an island or a convoy starting full steam head on into land less than a km dead ahead. The enemy AI also seems omnipotent, their submarines always know where to intercept your convoys making repeated actions of defensive sub hunting with the same group common. Air forces are also hilariously bad, whoever has more fighters just wins. There is no tactics or advantages one fighter has over another and engagements with them have no verticality. It's "fight at this level at this speed" and you can change what level you fight at but not dynamically during a fight (for instance you can't boom and zoom with F4s and zeros are not particularly better at turning). There is an option to turn off the enemy using submarines and aircraft but that seems like a drastic response to a feature that just shouldn't be this broken. The enemy's command points also seem limitless so they just keep buying more and more CAs no matter how many you sink you just can't keep up, which gets very frustrating. There are mods that make the game better however they should not be necessary. The devs just need to fix their game or hopefully make the next one better.