Create 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 and harbour sieges, 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.
What needs to be known about naval games from the Totem:
Ironclads American Civil War - very bad game in all aspects
Ironclads High Seas & Scenarios - very empty games in all aspects
Victorian Admirals - absolutely unnecessary game
Ironclads 2 American Civil War - very promising game
Ironclads 2 Pacific War - one more step in the right direction
Ironclads...
Having won a full victory by both Shogunate and Imperial court, I am updating the review.
I assume the developers built the entire 48 turn till victory concept on the assumption that players will prefer skirmishing with 1-2 ships and not go all out in a single decisive battle. Regardless of the side you pick, if you can score a decisive victory as in...
For reasons I do not understand, it's more interesting to play this scenario than to play the scenario about the war of the North and the South. The game is not long and quite interesting. Of course, some obvious problems of the whole series come to mind, but I do not want to quibble. For such money in this genre, there is nothing better.
I seldom buy a video game, I seldom play them. I prefer historical books and play board wargames. But I bought this game. And I am happy. In places it strange and unclear, but it transmits spirit of battles of an era of armor and steam.
I did not expect very much when I purchased this game. This game was a pleasant surprise. Although the genre is described
as action, the requirements for success are sufficient to classify Boshin War as naval action/turned based strategy. The ability to control every ship a provides a variety of means to achieve the objectives. At the same time you
can...
