Rule the Waves

[LostCosmonaut]

Have you ever wanted a game that is like KSP for boats, but with terrible graphics? Rule the Waves  might be for you!

 

Design boats, some of which are probably going to be terrible!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Play as great naval powers from the early 20th century, such as:

 

• US
• UK
• Germany
• France
• Russia
• Japan
• Austria-Hungary (?)
• Italy (??)
• Spain (???)
• The Confederacy (????)

Sweet battle graphics!

 

 

Diplomacy!

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a copy of the manual: http://www.navalwarfare.net/files/SAI/RTW_MANUAL.pdf

 

Have at it.

[Sturgeon]

Shouldn't this be in the "games with terrible graphics" thread?

[LostCosmonaut]

This one actually costs money, unlike the games in the other thread.

[D.E. Watters]

You could build your own ships in the old DOS-based PC game "Action Stations!"  However, the historical scenarios should be enough to keep you busy.

[Vanagandr]

I'm super late but this game is a gem

[LostCosmonaut]

There's a goon LP of this going on, and some of the user submitted designs are amazing.

 

(that last one is mine)

[Sturgeon]

I don't speak shipsperg, explain?

[LostCosmonaut]

Mixed caliber main armaments are generally a terrible idea (different trajectories, hard to distinguish shell splashes, probably some other reasons).

 

Also, that boat with a bazillion 8 inch guns displaces about the same as the South Carolina but with much less armor and a main battery that has much less penetration ability.

[Sturgeon]

Yours is better because it has four 11" guns and displaces less?

Also, aren't Battlecruisers a really bad idea?

[xthetenth]

Battlecruisers are a mixed blessing. That kind with incredibly thin armor is bad because they tend to die. On the other hand a speed advantage is really nice for making the enemy let you pick off damaged stragglers or keep the fleet together and let you get another go. They can also counter enemies attempting that.

Also that thread is what got me going on ship design posts. So that's nice.

My germany game has gone weird places, I'm cracking 40,000 tons on my designs before 1910, and the resulting designs with the oil I got from the Sakhalins are absolute monsters but very limited in number.

[LostCosmonaut]

Got a treaty in 1906 limiting ships to 8 inch guns and 10000 tons displacement. Horrendous numbers of battleships and battlecruisers scrapped in the yards.

 

And now we end up with stuff like this.

 

[LostCosmonaut]

 

brutal