Well, having played a few "real" campaign missions, I gotta say I'm really in total agreement with Horsa on this review. This game's got charm and essence of a good subsim - too bad that essense is really stripped down to truly bare essence. But if you go into it with a lot of imagination... the game takes you back. A few years ago this would've been a stellar subsim title -far better than SHII when it was released!

Again, shame it wasn't really finished. I'll be happy to play it along and wait for mods though!

Meanwhile, back to sailing. I totally agree with the assesment that it feels a bit comic-book-ish. It is! As I said, with a lot of imagination this one makes for some cool adventures. It also feels a bit less pressuring and less time-consuming to play than SHIII/IV assuming you don't mind the lack of in-mission saves. It doesn't have nearly as much tension as SHIII/IV, more just... you make an error, you pay for it quickly (and pay you do!). While I love the nail-biting drama of being depth-charged, it's nice when you can step back from that and play a game of peekaboo with the enemy.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y12...tuff/wwi03.jpg

I call her U-7, 4 missions in and 6660t sunk (since I've only attacked warships and small vessels sailing in suspicious areas so far). From humble beginnings bigger things go, though! :p

Well I got the game and at first I wasn't all that struck on it, but now CB is getting his teeth in to it, it now shows a lot of promise.

Well done CB, nice to see you again, I'm still flight simming but I keep looking in from time to time. :)

cheers COL..nice to see you again too:up:
it's a very moddable game...the best part is really seee-ing the ww1 ships up close..very nice models and you just never see these turn of the century ships anywhere else...the game is a bit "heath robinison" but either deliberately or accidentaly that's strangely appropiate for the time period!:lol:

same here tho.. i've been else-where too

there's no end to that which could be achieved with the game tho...even SH2 wasn't as moddable as this..mission-script wise..