Carrier Battles - Successor to Carriers At War?

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Hi,

I am looking forward to Carrier Battles, since there is no more work on Carriers At War (e.g. the expansion never materialised). This is a port of the iPad game to the Mac/PC.

Website

You Tube Video

Steam

If it doesn't cover all the original Carriers At War scenarios, maybe there will be the ability to add user scenarios?

[ncc1701e]

Looks interesting, thanks for sharing.

[Propitious Crane]

Yes it does. I do wonder if you can edit the scenarios though. That was one of the better things about CAW, although one really irritating feature of the CAW mission editor was how much that could be automated had to be manually coded.

For example, if you create a new carrier or airbase and assign squadrons to it, you have to manually type in the inner and outer strike limit ranges and times when those apply. As the ranges are known from the plane type in each squadron, and its day/night capability likewise, and dusk / dawn times are in the scenario setup, all those fields could surely be populated by looking values up from elsewhere.

The same applies to things like whether surface formations are likely to fight or not. This is largely a function of whether they contain carriers, seaplane tenders or merchants, so again it could be default value based on task group composition.

The single worst change made between the old DOS and Windows versions of CAW was that in the latter control of what aircraft flew CAP was taken away. If you have a carrier equipped with say 9 Sea Hurricanes and 12 Fulmars, you probably want the former flying CAP because short range and 4 x 20mm cannon, and the latter accompanying strikes because longer-range. You're as likely to find that you have no fighters with the range to accompany a strike, because you set CAP to 10/21 and the AI has assigned 10 of the 12 Fulmars to the CAP leaving you only the 9 Hurricanes, which can't reach the target.

You Swordfish strike duly gets slaughtered and it's game over.

[Rasputitsa]

Thanks for the links, as this game was a surprise to me.

Went onto the website to see that 'Carrier Battles' was to be released in 2hrs, on that day.

Good timing, got the game, which is looking very good.[8D]

[surfcandy]

It's actually pretty good game.

[ATCSMike]

Read the battles to be included. Reminds me of the old DOS "Carrier Strike". On my wish list now.

[Curt1956]

It plays well. Developer continues to updaate