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PC Game Review: Ironclads: High Seas
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Posted by Donster on: 2009-10-15 18:30:29 1000
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Moving American Civil War ironclads into the high seas has resulted in a stellar achievement. Find out why.
Author: Jim Cobb @ The Wargamer
A great irony is that the only company making American Civil War tactical naval games is Russian. Totem Games’ first effort was the under-rated Ironclads. That turn-based game focused on littoral actions and was marred only by the inability of ships to exchange fire simultaneously. Ironclads: High Seas moves the action a few miles from shore and uses a real-time system. Naval buffs may object that the ironclads weren’t ocean-going. The rebuttals are that some of those vessels could handle blue water and the actions are simply blockade engagements out of sight of land but not in mid-ocean
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