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Originally Posted by geosub1978
Hello! I am thinking of buying this game. Just one question. Does it include shore bombardment or merchant hunting or it's only fleet interactions?
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Just to clarify...
Both shore bombardments and merchant captures are in the campaigns.
Shore bombardments are handled abstractly. They don't do much, if any, real damage to anything important (which is historically accurate), but mostly are for morale/prestige purposes. Move your ships to the target, the bombardment happens, and that's it. You don't fight them out in a 3D battle. In Jutland, shore bombardments score more points for the Germans than for the Entente. In DG, I don't think they do very much for either side.
As for merchants, in DG the whole campaign depends on merchant capturing, because the Japanese Army has to be supplied by sea. Only the Russians can capture merchants, and if they do this well enough, they can greatly slow or even stop the IJA's progress toward Port Arthur.
In Jutland's long campaign, both sides can capture merchants. This is more important for the Germans because if they can stop the cross-Channel shipping in the 1st 1/2 of 1916, they can actually win the war by causing the French to make a separate peace after losing at Verdun.