Ironclads: American Civil War

It's not good. It looks bad, there is only music on the title screen (which is one track and repetitive) and none in the game, there is some basic sound effects in the levels but it gets annoying hearing the sounds of the ships over and over. There is a 'help' screen to learn the controls but it's a bit confusing at first. The game is slow and boring. It crashes a lot. There are missions where you need to destroy coastal batteries but you have to come very close to the shore to get a shot - and if you go too close to the shore you run aground - it's very frustrating. Need to save the game a lot because of things like that as well as regular crashes. NO options - no resolution, volume or other options menu... games take literal hours just to complete one level, due to the enemy ships moving at the same speed as yours during the AI's turn (so it's not like total war where you can speed up the AI movement turn etc). Hitting anything is very random, it can have 75%+ chance to hit and you might miss 3-4x. 'Best' way to play to win 'easier' (but taking even longer to play) is to save regularly and cheese it by firing and reloading the save file each time until you get a hit, and then sa…

Interesting maneuver and fire type game that made me pull out my old Ironclads wargame from Yaquinto Publishing back in the 80s. Promising start..curious to see how the other games expand on what has been started in this initial effort.

Complete junk, terrible gameplay.

https://youtu.be/Gn3Gvz_nyHM Nearly impossible to parse either due to the age of the title or the structure, but the high seas here are low fun.

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Turn-based ship combat. Seems to have come out at that awkward phase between 2D and 3D. Kinda feels like a blue tablecloth thrown on an endless table - throw some simple token-based boat model game on top, and this is what you get. Game soft locks my PC if I alt-tab out. Doesn't look that great, and music is pretty generic. I'd pass.