Jutland by Sofware Sorcery

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by Sonarman

Bes sure to look out for the forthcoming Jutland game from Storm Eagle Studios it's looking pretty good and promises to be a very deep strategy/sim currently it's in beta so should be with us in a few months.

I'm still sticking to my May 31st release prediction (The anniversary for the actual Battle of Jutland), Because their website still says it's a "Spring 2008" release, So not a few months, But weeks

Has anyone heard of an older game called "Dreadnoughts"? Is it any good?

[Sonarman]

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...

Originally Posted by Raptor1

Has anyone heard of an older game called "Dreadnoughts"? Is it any good?

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!

[Raptor1]

Just played Dreadnoughts, Ouch, Gonne take a while 'till I get used to this...

Anyway, Does anyone know if it's still possible to get Software Sorcery's Jutland anywhere?

[Sonarman]

Ebay would be the place to try for Jutland, although I would caution that it's definitely not a great game, no where near as good as say Task Force 1942 and is really only for the naval-game completist (like me unfortunately). The game does run happily under DOSBox however I have been unable to get sound effects although the music track does play.

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by Sonarman

Ebay would be the place to try for Jutland, although I would caution that it's definitely not a great game and really only for the naval-game completist (like me unfortunately).

Think ill pass...

Can't wait for SES' Jutland though, Even if it is going to be expensive like Distant Guns

[Jig]

I'd have to disagree on it not being a great game. If I could get the sound to work, I'd play it. I recall the sound needed the sound card to have an IRQ jumper set on a certain one, ( it's that old SB32 ) Awesome sound on a home theater. Damage control teams, and excellant combat..

Here's the one problem I had with it , no save feature,,, could only pause the game. The battle of Jutland once took me over 20 hours of play, and I won, once. I still have the cd but haven't tried to get it to work for awhile.

[bradclark1]

Originally Posted by Sonarman

Ebay would be the place to try for Jutland,

You can get it on Amazon for $2.70.
http://www.amazon.com/Jutland/dp/B00...0865882&sr=1-2