Carriers at War

[flintlock]

With the upcoming release of SSG's highly anticipated (at least for me) Carriers at War, I'm curious if any from the subsim community plan on purchasing a copy. It think it would be a lot of fun to have some MP naval battles amongst fellow subsim aficionados!

[CCIP]

To be honest, anything hardcore and naval has gotten my interest lately, so I think this one's a buy by default! :)

[flintlock]

Good to read! :)

[flintlock]

SSG posted a list of included scenarios within Carriers At War.

They Include:

Pearl Harbor (+1 variant where the US get about 9 hours warning)
Wake Island (+1 variant)
Coral Sea (+1 variant)
Midway (+1 variant)
Eastern Solomons (+2 variants)
Santa Cruz (+3 variants)
Philippine Sea (+2 variants)The above list was posted on Matrix's CAW forum by SSG's Gregor (VP, SSG).

[tedhealy]

Definite purchase.

[FAdmiral]

I had the original made back in 1991 and played it many, many times.
If this new one plays as good but with better AI and graphics, I will be very happy playing it too....

JIM

[Corsair]

Same here, had good times with original game, will have a go. There hasn't been anything like it in the meantime...

[tedhealy]

From a tester on the ssg forums on june 2nd

http://ssg.com.au/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3953


I better shut up now before Alex comes into the forum and kicks my butt.. but like I said.. tonight I installed the Gold Master.. but I dont think Im allowed to say that.. so I didnt ok. My estimate is you will have it on your desktop within 2 weeks at the very very latest.. you may even be enjoying it this time next week - depending upon Matrix Games release schedule - which I know nothing about..


:rock::rock:

[CCIP]

:o:o:o:o


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Can't wait!

[flintlock]

It's up on the Carriers at War Dev Diary now:


Gold Master Uploaded

The long wait is nearly over. We've uploaded our final release to Matrix. There is still some admin work to do (finalising installers, getting things ready on the digital download side of things etc), but we hope you should see the game on sale within the next week.
Now I've got to get back to working out how to stop that invasion of Port Moresby.

Good times! :up:

[flintlock]

Here's a post from Gregor (VP, SSG) on the Matrix CaW forum in a thread from a user inquiring about the tactical and strategic challenge of Carriers at War:



The challenge in Carriers at War is not so much the searching, but where you have positioned your carriers relative to those who are most assuredly searching for you. You are cast in the role of Admiral, so once a strike has left the deck you can do nothing further to contribute to its chances of success. This might sound strange, but its actually more exciting this way - you just don't know what is going to happen. The stress that the real life carrier admirals suffered must have been astronomical.

The real art of the game is in placing your forces in the right spot, evaluating the inherently unreliable sighting reports and deciding when and with what to strike. I was playing a game the other day where my over zealous pilots had reported 8 different carrier sightings.Now some of those settled down fairly quickly to be more accurate, but trying to evaluate all those sightings, while knowing that some of them had to accurate and that a lethal enemy strike could already be in the air, is a task that will take your full attention.

It always been a hugely popular game and I'm sure you'll enjoy it if you give it a go.
Definitely sounds like a lot of fun!

[bookworm_020]

I had the old version of this game on my mac many years ago. If the new one is as good, I would buy it without flinching:up: