Rule the Waves 3
Naval Warfare Simulations · 2023 · Simulation, Wargame, Naval, Military, Strategy
PC
Very Positive88% · 846
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About Rule the Waves 3
Build Your Navy, from pre-Dreadnoughts to Aircraft Carriers and Missile Cruisers!
Rule the Waves III is a simulation of naval ship design and construction, fleet management and naval warfare from 1890 to 1970.
It will place you in the role of 'Grand Admiral' of a navy from the time when steam and iron dominated warship design up to the missile age.
Rule the Waves III will let you design and build the ships of your navy, and lead them into battle when war erupts. You will guide your navy's deployment, construction and operations during a period of great technological innovation and political tensions. While the game derives much of its technology and events from 'actual' history, you will find that you forge your own new history each and every time you play!
Rule the Waves III is a simulation of naval ship design and construction, fleet management and naval warfare from 1890 to 1970.
It will place you in the role of 'Grand Admiral' of a navy from the time when steam and iron dominated warship design up to the missile age.
Rule the Waves III will let you design and build the ships of your navy, and lead them into battle when war erupts. You will guide your navy's deployment, construction and operations during a period of great technological innovation and political tensions. While the game derives much of its technology and events from 'actual' history, you will find that you forge your own new history each and every time you play!
Features
- Campaigns start in either 1890, 1900,1920 or 1935 and can run through 1970.
- Monthly strategic turns with Battles resolved in a realistic tactical naval battle resolution system.
- Manage your naval budget, and deal with interfering Kaisers, presidents or navy ministers as well as a variety of historical events including naval treaties.
- Realistic design of ships ranging from corvettes to battleships and aircraft carriers.
- Research and technical development will determine ship design and tactics.
- Espionage will keep you up to date on the progress of competing navies
- Submarines, airships, aircraft and missiles will all appear and change the naval balance of power.
- Build, train, maintain and fight with your own 'ideal' navy.
- Construct coastal fortifications, airbases and other defenses
- Play as USA, Great Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, Japan, Spain, Austria-Hungary, or China.
DLC & expansions
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
boat5 found this helpful
Who knew a spreadsheet was all you need for the best naval warfare simulator? Everything is 2D, but the campaign and combat system are far more enjoyable than UAD along with being able to go from ironclads to missile cruisers in a single game.3 found this helpful
Its ultimate admiral but windows 95, all the same issues in a 130mb package that costs more somehow2 found this helpful
Fought off an entire fleet of battleships and armored cruisers with destroyers. 11/10. Would do it again.2 found this helpful
Not giving the player any control over when you end a war is easily the worst design choice i have ever seen in a strategy/simulation game. The sheer stupidity of fighting a war for 2 years and having no oppertunity to end a war that started for undisclosed reasons other than ''tension'' and forcing you to fight pointless battles where the AI either has a clear numbers advantage despite you having litteraly your entire fleet stationed in the same seabord as the AI. Or you are given the most pointless objectives like ''Do more damage to the enemy ships than you recieve'' In a battle where your only ship is an Armored Cruiser that has a max speed of 20 knots, and your only opponent is a light cruiser with a max speed of 25 knots who spends the entire battle sitting at the edge of the firing range of your turrets, refusing to engage or leave you alone, effectively making the entire battle a giant waste of time. The so-called logic of the AI being ''careful'' is neither realistic nor fun in a game sense, since there is no reason to fight 60% of the battles you are presented with, and if you refuse to fight you are actively punished, so you are either forced to waste 3 minutes of …1 found this helpful
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