2017 Totem Games80Great
Manage your fleet and army, hunt the enemy's fleet, hide your weak squadrons in protected ports until reinforcements arrive, blockade enemy trade routes, amphibious assaults, struggle for dominance over the seas in turned-based strategic mode. The real time tactical battle mode allows you to set up battles and squadron groups with their formations and management using realistic ship models and characteristics as well as advanced ballistics and weapon models. ATTENTION! In the game there is no interactive training, only a textual manual.
PRO
strong artificial intelligence
beautiful models of the ships
interesting historical subject
variability and gameability
reasonable price
you can finish the battle at any time (novelty)
CON
there is no multiplayer
there is no custom battle mode
there is no in-game tutorial (only a manual)
When I been playing Ironclads 2 War of the Pacific, I was thinking that number of ships is too low, it is too risky to lost ironclads (there are 2 maximum!) in first fight ... here we have a lot of ships, I like that, still it feels like Pacific or Caroline Island - you can't build ships or infantry, only repair or reinforce them, which is in my opinion...
Everything in this game is not as easy as it seems from the screenshots and video. This game dumbfounds its uniqueness. This is both bad and good. The bad thing is that all the previous gaming experience does not make sense. You look at the screen and do not understand what is happening and what you need to do. And in the game there is no training....
Clad in Iron: Gulf of Mexico 1864 deserves praise, provides excellent entertainment, and is well worth its price. I admire both the design of the strategy and tactical layer. There is good balance between realistic and arcade elements. And the game's polished graphics makes playing a real pleasure. Clad in Iron: Gulf of Mexico 1864 distinguish itself...
This is an alternate history naval campaign game. Basically, what if the European powers decided to intervene in the Civil War. On the strategic map, it is… decent, and somewhat easy to figure out. Not so much on the battle maps. Goal is to have more victory points at the end.
Suggest getting on discount.