I appologize if it seemed i was being too critical of anyone. I just have worked with and studied naval simulations for much of my life, and both Distant Guns and Jutland are the most advanced surface warfare simulations with the best graphics and qualities yet achieved in any form. Everyone has their own experience, and without some historic understanding of the perils, challenges and dangers faced by sailors at sea in that era in the huge lumbering behemoths of ships, with danger at every hand, it can be boring and seem overly complex indeed. For me, to see the detail lavished on the in sim ships, down to the crew, the detail achieved with the dynamics, the accuracy of the risk and action factors balanced by what is playable on most systems, and on and on, I am in awe and very grateful. Finally we may be able to sim some of the battles of that now distant era and achieve an immersion that none of us have been able to achieve.
As I said, we all have our own course to set, and I applogize again for saying what i feel and see should be what you see and feel. Naval sims are complex and require quite a bit of learning. I am sure over time, these two titles will be classics and I hope the foundation for a new generation of naval sims that will allow us even more understanding and knowledge of naval warfare, past and present. I am going to let associates know about this at the Naval War College here and its fellow in the UK, and thank the developers for the care and attention to detail they have achieved with Jutland. I do hope we can someday get offical game disks, I understand the cost factor of download vs packaging, but I still love a Game disk and box and a manual I can hold in my hands.
cheers and salute to all shipmates.
a fine site for information on the pre dreadnought and Dreadnought era: amazingly detailed for all the major powers of the time:
http://www.cityofart.net/bship/frameset7.html
http://www.cityofart.net/bship/oesterreich.html
http://www.cityofart.net/bship/site_nav.html