Comments on: Ship-shaped: Ironclads: High Sea Demo

By: Adventurous Putty

Adventurous Putty — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:27:57 +0000

This isn’t anything against the game (indeed, it may well reflect my own lack of sleep), but that truly seems to me to be the most utterly soporific trailer I’ve ever seen in my life. It sounds like something pre-recorded to cure insomnia, and even the canonshots are eerily relaxing.

By: Jae Armstrong

Jae Armstrong — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:50:37 +0000

Ironclads? Arses to that. Dreadnoughts ftw.

By: Torgen

Torgen — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:21:26 +0000

Don’t forget that, towards the latter part of this era, fire rates were a blistering 1 round every three minutes, and some guns had to rotate back to a forward position to reload :D

It seems though, that they are modeling the more fun, earlier time of the mid 1800s.

By: FhnuZoag

FhnuZoag — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:28:42 +0000

Can an ironclad strategy game really be fun? The thing is, this was an era when defensive power greatly overwhelmed offensive/manuvering capabilities. The Monitor and the Virginia pounded each other for hours, and even had a ramming action, and failed to inflict real damage on each other.

By: Jti

Jti — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:02:07 +0000

My DL was cut off, so I’ll have to try it later. This game really has hit nail on the head on the subject, but I fear that delivery isn’t as good as it should…

Anyway, I have a lot of optimism when it comes to Eastern European games.

By: Fergas

Fergas — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:22:24 +0000

well tryed the demo and i like it not something you see everday had to shout at it to make it work bloody ++c library crap but seem to work once i installed it even though i already have ++c installed werid.

By: Torgen

Torgen — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:59:32 +0000

you know, there were some seriously freaky designs in 19th century naval construction. I wonder how hard this game is to mod? Pre-dreadnought naval warfare is a area that gets far too little attention, probably because there wasn’t any large battles before the 1905 Russo-Japanese War, when things were already becoming standardized.

You know, I bet a game that let you experiment with all the crazy inter-war tank designs would be fun as well.

By: Vanguard

Vanguard — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:25:32 +0000

Poor Quinns.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:17:38 +0000

We all know that even if Quinns did have Iron he wouldn’t know what to do with it.

By: Oak

Oak — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:14:19 +0000

The Age of Fighting Steam.

By: Cooper

Cooper — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:36:55 +0000

Any ol’ Iron?

By: dartt

dartt — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:23:17 +0000

I hear Quinns doesn’t have much iron at all.