I've mentioned in a previous thread that Jutland has returned, the team managing the game are engaging with customers again, helping with any issues and replying to tickets. I've had a marvelous time the last month replaying this game, creating my own scenarios.
I was playing on a small windowed version, I just discovered the settings that allow me to play in its full 1920 x 1080 - 32 bit glory. This is the way the game was meant to look. Anyway, here is a gorgeous picture from a scenario of my own creation, a convoy of mine from America (in 1917) with ten ships carrying important cargo (aircraft engines? something like that) is being escorted by two pre-dreadnoughts, HMS Canopus and HMS Ocean. I also have several armoured cruisers of the Minotaur / Black Prince type, and my light cruisers scouting ahead have just encountered the German destroyers and light cruisers. There must be a german battle fleet in the area! (because I made the scenario, I know there is; it's a battle line of three Nassau class dreadnoughts and five Deutschland pre-dreads.
There are four Queen Elizabeth-class super-dreadnoughts well to the north carrying out manoeuvres and gunnery drills, but it's 70 kilometers north so it would take almost 2 hours at 21 knots to join the convoy (they are fully laden with fuel and ammo so they cannot make their top trials speed).
I also have two battlecruisers 50 kilometers east of the convoy, the HMS Repulse and the HMS Princess Royal. In their loading condition, the Repulse can make a full 27 knots, and Princess Royal only 23. I've just decided to split them up, due to Repulse having oil-fired engines that give off less smoke, its high speed and 15-inch guns give it superior gunnery range, I'm sending the Repulse north to scout for the main German battle line (it's cloudy, rainy and foggy, visibility is down to 23km).
Here is a picture of the two mighty battlecruisers parting company to pursue their respective missions. Princess Royal has peeled off to the west and left the two-ship division in which Repulse was in the van.
I strongly encourage all of you to give Jutland a try again, I know the sales/support/Steam-like distribution system haven't been perfect and they seemed to go radio-silent for a while. But these issues have been resolved, since I re-initiated contact about a month ago they have been completely professional, supportive and empathetic. It's a magnificent game, it's been so educational for me. Please, please try it if you're a World War 1 naval buff.
