On Jutland
Yes, hopefully it will make the anniversary, although they are still adding new features... to quote developer Jim Rose:
"Deep in the Campaign Game, Another layer of AI, More Light Houses, More Light Ships, Zeppelin scouting' Lots of new neat things........Good food takes time to prepare
check out what's happening at the semi-official
gamesquad forum for the series.
On Dreadnoughts...
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Originally Posted by Raptor1
Has anyone heard of an older game called "Dreadnoughts"? Is it any good?
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Dreadnoughts was a very good MS-DOS title by Dr Peter Turcan who developed some of the first 3d wargames such as Waterloo,Borodino and Armada on the Atari ST, Amiga & PC. The games would show a 3d picture view of the battlefield and you would type commands in then advance time by a certain period to see how your actions played out. The game originally shipped with cool laminated charts so that you could plot your ships positions yourself, the post patch game saw the plots integrated into the game itself.
Dreadnoughts started out in this typing manner but was upgraded to have mouse input of commands a big improvement. The level of commands in the game gave it a very realistic feel. Two addon data discs "Ironclads" & "Bismarck" were released for the game. Dr Turcan also went on to release a futher naval game "Midway" using the same system.
You can check out a 90% Amiga review for the game
here
Another Jutland alternative
There is of course yet another Jutland game this time by John Tiller who did the first Age of Sail game for Talonsoft. It's less visual than those above yet, relying on a 2D top down viewpoint of the action, still worth a look check it out over at the
HPS Simulations site note that if you want this you can find it cheaper than HPS sell it for, shop around!