#Rule the waves mods update#

A destroyer might take around a year to build, while a modestly-sized battleship or carrier will probably take over two years to construct. The bigger the ship, the longer it takes to construct. By the mid 1930's, you're designing carriers and warships that look like they would be at home in World War II. Just like real history!Д«ut then, surprise surprise, ship designs start taking on a much more modern form by 1915 or so. As in, you probably won't be reliably hitting anything unless you're at point blank range.

This is particularly a challenge in a 1900 start, when the post-ironclad ships and technologies you start out with are hilariously bad. However, the ability to design your own ships is the real draw here. The game has some odd mechanics, and after a few playthroughs you start to realize that capturing more territory doesn't really enhance your empire's power in the way it does it most games. I have spent pretty much the last 3 weeks playing it, so I'd say it's worth the price. So I went out and bought Rule the Waves 2 based upon this thread. The second one seems to be a great improvement so far. I found out about the game from the post above, and the first one is one of the games I keep coming back to. So, although the microing associated with tracking the detailed movement of ships between battles is gone, as is detailed control of the economy. Every month the system generates a tactical battle somewhere in the world, to which it assigns a random-ish OOB and drops into a pausable tactical simulation where (at hardest difficulty) you're the top admiral - the AI controls (almost) all your divisions and ships within the division. In addition, the strategic timescale is a month - you move your ships to 15 zones (it takes a month of travel time to move to an adjacent zone). The game is a contrast with Aurora in some ways, in that you're playing the part of the Navy minister - you only have indirect control of budget and policies by making choices that are presented to you - your main function at this level is to design and build your fleet and deploy your forces.

#Rule the waves mods update#

It's from a small (1 dev in spare time, I think) shop, so the bug report thread for v1.0 is up to ~10 pages, but they're going after them hard and I expect an update in the next few days. It adds aircraft (both lighter and heavier than air) and the tech tree can go to 1950 (I think the last playable date is in 1972). In case people haven't noticed, Rule the Waves 2 is out as of Friday. One time I tried to get an Neutronium plated Battleship at the end of a game.That added +100% game time by itself just for this, because the stuff is incredibly rare.(it's not even really worth it.) My few games lasted maybe around 12-20 hours though, because I always want to do and colonize everything. There is also a pacing problem near the end, where the last fight is suddenly really challenging, so you need to build up fleet for forever unless you sport some unconventional attack plan.(you can chose out of a couple strategies in the end) If you know what to do, you can play through a story mode in an afternoon I guess, though you wouldn't see all possible tech. Ingame speed depends entirely on you, as you can fast forward as much as you like. As said, I doubt there will be much more, but I always check in periods of a couple months, because I really would want something with this nice officer system to function. Patches come about in every 6 months, but unless what Steve does, there is rarely 'visible' change to any core mechanic. The developer is gaining progress really slow, but is understandable. You mean from the game developer, or ingame?