Recommend me a good NAVAL wargame ... please

[dud]

I've had an interest in naval warfare for many years and have the urge to try a newer PC simulation that it acurate as possible ... yet fun to play. Many years ago I used to play Age of Sails and loved it. I've tried (years ago) the like of Enigma Rising Tide and even Fighting Steel and they were OK I guess.

I've searched and came up empty ... any recommendations? Thanks ...

 

[SunnyD]

What do you mean by "Accurate"? I'm assuming something like Battlestations: Pacific isn't what you're wanting, as it's more arcadey...

 

[dud]

What do you mean by "Accurate"? I'm assuming something like Battlestations: Pacific isn't what you're wanting, as it's more arcadey...

Your assumption is correct. I was looking for a sim/game that would make me think. When you get to my age you need to exercise your brain.

 

[SunnyD]

Your assumption is correct. I was looking for a sim/game that would make me think. When you get to my age you need to exercise your brain.

Hmm... I'm not as young as you think.

Good luck though, I'll be watching this thread myself as I haven't seen any naval games that piqued my interest since Silent Service II.

 

[KaOTiK]

The Silent Hunter games are good if you are looking for submarine types

 

[Daverino]

The Silent Hunter series is about as accurate as you can get if you like submarines. Put it up on the highest level of difficulty and all you get to track and fix your targets is a compass, protractor, ruler and pencil.

And strangely, that can be a lot of fun. Getting a single torp kill on a merchantman is a ton of work and very satisfying.

 

[Liet]

Yep, Silent Hunter III (WITH the GWX addon, MUST play with GWX!) is considered the best of the best, gameplay wise. Plenty of folks enjoy SH4 as well, but I don't believe the GWX mod was released for it.

Seriously, few things in my years of gaming were as tense or exciting as learning how to plot a course to successfully intercept a spotted convoy, silently stalking it while figuring out how to take down the most ships at the same time with a spread of torpedos, then evading the damned escorts.

WHEW.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/ is a place for (primarily) SH discussion.

 

[astrosfan315]

http://www.simhq.com/

this is a good site for all sim stuff.

 

[Nik]

How about Navy Field?

http://www.navyfield.com/

 

[microAmp]

As others said, Silent Hunter series. Though last I heard, quite a while ago too, Silent Hunter 3 used Starforce DRM and doesn't work with Vista, probably Windows 7. Silent Hunter 4 should work with Vista and Windows 7.

 

[dud]

How about Navy Field?

http://www.navyfield.com/

I installed Navyfield on my comp and it crashed for some reason.

Thanks but I'll pass.

 

[Nik]

I installed Navyfield on my comp and it crashed for some reason.

Thanks but I'll pass.

anything newer than vista needs a couple checkboxes in the compatibility tab to run right

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

War in the Pacific: Admirals Edition

/thread

 

[novasatori]

I thought Dangerous Waters by Sonalyst Combat Simulations was awesome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_Waters

 

[IcePickFreak]

Also worth checking out is Dangerous Waters. It's a relatively modern day full out naval combat sim that offers a lot of different platforms to play with. It's not ground breaking gfx or anything, but they're not that bad and the game play more than makes up for it if your into naval sims. You can use voice commands as well to give orders which actually works pretty well. It also has a pretty loyal community since it's a pretty niche game, but they've produced some pretty good mods. It's been a few years since I've played (it came out in 05 or 06) but now that you reminded me about it I may have to install it again.

Here's a gameplay vid to give an idea. Once you know whats going on it's a very fun sim.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJTDbu9kw1k

 

[BladeVenom]

There was the Harpoon series.

PT Boats: Knights of the Sea has been coming soon for a couple of years... It looks like it might be nice.

War Plan Pacific looked interesting, and was one I meant to get around to. An earlier one from them was War Plan Orange Dreadnoughts.

 

[Mike Gayner]

Also worth checking out is Dangerous Waters. It's a relatively modern day full out naval combat sim that offers a lot of different platforms to play with. It's not ground breaking gfx or anything, but they're not that bad and the game play more than makes up for it if your into naval sims. You can use voice commands as well to give orders which actually works pretty well. It also has a pretty loyal community since it's a pretty niche game, but they've produced some pretty good mods. It's been a few years since I've played (it came out in 05 or 06) but now that you reminded me about it I may have to install it again.

Here's a gameplay vid to give an idea. Once you know whats going on it's a very fun sim.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJTDbu9kw1k

You use the word "pretty" too much.

 

[ayabe]

SH5 is coming out soon(early March), it looks beautiful and will have a dynamic campaign that seems like it's the real deal.

But a surface ship game on that level would be fantastic but the market just isn't there for it. We have next to nothing in the sim genre, I guess the kids don't like it.

 

[dud]

I thought Dangerous Waters by Sonalyst Combat Simulations was awesome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_Waters

Thanks. DW looks wonderful. I'll have to check it out as I was hoping for pre-missile gunbattles.

 

[exar333]

Silent Hunter is a lot of fun, and is challenging. You really feel a sense of accomplishment when you stalk and successfully sink a merchant ship. Awesome game all around.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Your assumption is correct. I was looking for a sim/game that would make me think. When you get to my age you need to exercise your brain.

Go oldschool with silent service II, which by the way I was exercising on when I was 8.

 

[paperfist]

Go oldschool with silent service II, which by the way I was exercising on when I was 8.

That's pretty cool, I didn't know they made a SS II game. I used to play the first Silent Service with my dad at that age

Silent Hunter is too hardcore for me though from what I played of #4 it was fantastic.

 

[IcePickFreak]

You use the word "pretty" too much.

You've pretty much summed it up.

 

[KMFJD]

I used to love this game...

http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/phm-pegasus