Best naval strategy game?

[Weirdguy]

I've been trying to find a good game to play that deals with battleships.  This isn't as common a genre.  Most games are usually about armies and land warfare, and naval combat is just a side show.

The first one I have been looking at are Storm Eagle's Jutland game, but I find their user interface to be pretty bad, and even their demo didn't impress me when it asked for me to log onto their website and setup an account (it's a demo, just let me play it).  To be fair I have never really gone much further because of those issues.

Are there any other games out there for people who like big gun ships?

[Sabre]

Check out a MMO called Navy Field (www.navyfield.com).  It may be what you're looking for.  I tried it out, but didn't have the patience for it. At the time (couple years ago), I couldn't figure out how to get into an on-line battle and gave up.  It had potential, though, and is worth checking out.  I used to play a table-top game called "Battlewagon", and hoped Navy Field would be similar to. Good luck, either way.

[Blooz]

NWS Online

http://yhst-12000246778232.stores.yahoo.net/bogaandmiru.html

[mbailey]

I thought i read somewhere that the "World of" series is doing a naval game

[Karnak]

I thought i read somewhere that the "World of" series is doing a naval game

Yeah, but that is likely to be a "naval action game" not a "naval strategy game."

[68ZooM]

Battleship          "you sunk my battleship"

[Gixer]

Best Naval Strategy game imho is War in the Pacific Admiral's Ediiton, though of course that's grand campaign not just naval, but I think you can allocate a lot of ground stuff to AI if you choose.

Played War in the East for a few years now, and the scale is immense one turn can take up two or three hours playing as Russians.

http://www.matrixgames.com/

For sim only Naval one could recommend is SH5 with lots of mods.


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[TheMercinary60]

im trying out that navy field right now, not too bad, bit of a learning curve is all that i can see is wrong with it

[Curval]

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/216/details/Uncommon.Valor

Uncommon Valour is a more scaled down version of the huge games Grigsby has put out, still very good and fairly complicated.  Swoop and I had some massive online PBM games back in the day.  Great game.

[Shane]

im trying out that navy field right now, not too bad, bit of a learning curve is all that i can see is wrong with it

It's a grinding leveling game. Wot/P/(NF eventually) take the same idea but extend it further in the "3-d."  It's not so much strategy, or even much in the way of tactics, tho' - basically a steel cage team death match, full of fail. 

I've played NF on and off since 2004 - playing now, biding time for a better PC for AH. 

You can find me in-game as BWOopsy.

[Gixer]

playing now, biding time for a better PC for AH. 

Doesn't take much of a PC to play AH, im using a Lenovo E530 laptop and runs AH fine (50+fps) at high detail levels. Would be good to see you back, just returned last month myself. 


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[BoilerDown]

Now I look like an old fogie, but this game was awesome: http://www.google.com/search?q=ancient+art+of+war+at+sea

Damn, 25 years ago.

[MrKrabs]

I thought i read somewhere that the "World of" series is doing a naval game

Yes, yes they are - they have alpha's out for it right now... But at the moment the alpha is closed until march while they open the alpha for the lousy world of planes...

http://worldofwarships.com/

[GScholz]

Pacific Storm Allies. Properly patched and modded it is great.

[TheMercinary60]

It's a grinding leveling game. Wot/P/(NF eventually) take the same idea but extend it further in the "3-d."  It's not so much strategy, or even much in the way of tactics, tho' - basically a steel cage team death match, full of fail. 

I've played NF on and off since 2004 - playing now, biding time for a better PC for AH. 

You can find me in-game as BWOopsy.

look me up sometime TheMercinary im looking for someone to mooch some expirence off of