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#4233639 - 02/25/16 11:39 PM Atlantic Fleet  
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Atlantic Fleet has been released on Steam for 9,99, I consider this game a steal!

I just played for a couple of hours and boy is this fun! It's a turn-based naval strategy/simulation game featuring the Battle of the Atlantic in WW2.

The game initially was released on mobile platforms, the PC version now released has been substantially improved. It's not a die-hard realistic sim, the controls are rather simple, but the gameplay is amazingly fun and the level of detail is impressive.


Admiral Hipper with two light cruisers and two destroyer during a fight with HMS Exeter and her escorts



Stuka!



RN Sheffield is sunk during a vicious night action



Silent...



...sneaky...



...and deadly.



HMS Suffolk is about to have an unpleasant surprise...



Torpedo bombing



A nightmare come true:

Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in bad weather surprise a convoy escorted only by a few destroyers...






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"...late afternoon the Air Tasking Order came in [and] we found the A-10 part and we said, "We are going where!? We are doing what!?"

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#4233646 - 02/26/16 12:04 AM Re: Atlantic Fleet [Re: Para_Bellum]  
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Wow, the graphics look really impressive - nice shots!


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#4233654 - 02/26/16 12:30 AM Re: Atlantic Fleet [Re: Para_Bellum]  
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Great shots!

#4233685 - 02/26/16 02:53 AM Re: Atlantic Fleet [Re: Para_Bellum]  
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Wolfpack attacking at night



Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are having a jolly good time in the Atlantic...



...until they run into the Queen Elizabeth guarding a small convoy



Well two battleships against one, shouldn't be too hard, right?

Uhm... well..



Let's just say that bringing 15" guns to an 11" party is considered rude around here. Those thing hit hard...

But 18x11" guns put out some serious hurt, too.



After a tough fight she goes down.

On our way back to Kiel for some serious repair we run into bad company:

HMS York



Open fire!





Soon she sinks. and we're back in Kiel for repairs.


The score so far: Dec '39

Royal Navy losses: BB Queen Elizabeth, BC Renown, CA Exeter, York, Suffolk, CL Sheffield, Achilles, 14 DDs plus 240k merchant shipping

Kriegsmarine: 2 U-Boats


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"...late afternoon the Air Tasking Order came in [and] we found the A-10 part and we said, "We are going where!? We are doing what!?"

Capt. Todd Sheehy, Hog pilot, on receiving orders during Operation Desert Storm

#4233737 - 02/26/16 11:35 AM Re: Atlantic Fleet [Re: Para_Bellum]  
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hey take it easy on the Royal navy, my grandfather was out there in the atlantic in the RN ( served on a cruiser, forgotten which one) and my father was an AA gunner on the convoys( he was royal artillery but was volunteered to the merchant navy as they needed gunners).

Game looks great, but no way a british battleship would be in the atlantic without cruiser escort and destroyer pickets.

#4233761 - 02/26/16 01:39 PM Re: Atlantic Fleet [Re: digger52]  
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Originally Posted By: digger52
hey take it easy on the Royal navy...



Ouch, you won't like what happened to the Mighty Hood then... Bismarck will be so disappointed. wink





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...my grandfather was out there in the atlantic in the RN ( served on a cruiser, forgotten which one) and my father was an AA gunner on the convoys( he was royal artillery but was volunteered to the merchant navy as they needed gunners).

Game looks great, but no way a british battleship would be in the atlantic without cruiser escort and destroyer pickets.



Atlantic Fleet is more a "beer and pretzels" kind of wargame, not a serious naval simulation like, e.g. War in the Pacific. The RN so far is a bit too prone to send out weak task forces, hopefully this changes in the future.

BTW all kidding aside, I have the utmost respect for the Allied effort in WW2.


"...late afternoon the Air Tasking Order came in [and] we found the A-10 part and we said, "We are going where!? We are doing what!?"

Capt. Todd Sheehy, Hog pilot, on receiving orders during Operation Desert Storm

#4233842 - 02/26/16 03:49 PM Re: Atlantic Fleet [Re: Para_Bellum]  
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Yup, keep in mind this was originally launched on iOS. It's a great tablet game, and I can't wait to install and play on a larger screen smile


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#4235238 - 03/01/16 11:13 AM Re: Atlantic Fleet [Re: Para_Bellum]  
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Well... I shot the Hood with 9 torpedos. The first 6 in a spread was aimed at a destroyer, 2 connected and sank it. The other 4 sailed on and 3 ran into Hood. It was still floating. Got my second sub into position, shot 3 torpedos at Hood point blank. All 3 hit and the Hood is STILL floating. The Hood shot back with main guns and sank my sub. Got the other sub into position and sank it with another 3 torpedos...

#4235241 - 03/01/16 11:33 AM Re: Atlantic Fleet [Re: Para_Bellum]  
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The reality is of course that BBs were really obsolete in the face of air power. Witness the demise of Repulse and Prince of Wales.
The Kreigsmarine big ships were pretty ineffectual though they did tied up RN ships just due to the threat of their presence. Hitler enraged by their lack of action almost ordered them scrapped.
My wife's Grandfather was on the Queen Elizabeth at Gallipoli, the 'Hood' in 1928, and had to abandon the 'Effingham' during the Norway campaign in 1940 when she ran onto a rock which was hidden on the chart because the navigator had drawn a thick pencil line over it.

Sorry for the history lesson. Nice shots. Thanks for posting.



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Originally Posted By: BD-123
The reality is of course that BBs were really obsolete in the face of air power. Witness the demise of Repulse and Prince of Wales.


Perhaps in the early years before AAA was beefed up on many battleships, US battleships especially. No American BB was sunk underway at sea in WWII, much of that can be attributed to the immense AAA firepower US BB's possessed.


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#4235649 - 03/02/16 11:05 AM Re: Atlantic Fleet [Re: F4UDash4]  
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No American BB was sunk underway at sea in WWII

Maybe it's also because CVs are bullet magnets?:D.... not an expert.. just a guess.

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#4235676 - 03/02/16 01:21 PM Re: Atlantic Fleet [Re: Para_Bellum]  
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And also because Japanese air power was pretty much neutralised by 1943. Not completely, but largely.

#4236015 - 03/03/16 01:44 PM Re: Atlantic Fleet [Re: Para_Bellum]  
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I was looking from my English point of you, but you are right F4. The intensity of AA seen in US footage of the time is incredible; still firing at flaming planes out of control falling into the sea!
USN BB's an asset in the vast PTO but perhaps this was due to effective air protection? But consider the impotence of Yamato and Tirpitz under the threat of air attack, tying up men and many tons of scarce resources available to Germany and Japan.



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US BB's had a distinct advantage over a probably any other nations' BB's in terms of AA armament. The British 5.25" dual purpose gun was a very good AA weapon, but not quite a match for the US 5"/38 caliber, generally considered the best intermediate caliber dual purpose shipboard weapon of WWII. Once the proximity fuse came into use with the US 5 inch gun it was a game changer.

Likewise the US used the excellent 40mm Bofors, which was deemed to be as much as twice as effective as the British 2 pounder "pom-pom" gun.

Not only were the US AA weapons better, there were more of them. US new fast battleships carried 20 5 inch guns, HMS Prince of Wales had only 16 5.25. Likewise US battleships from North Carolina on had from 60 to 80 40mm barrels; Prince of Wales had 32 "pom-poms". US BBs also carried as many as 50 of the short range 20mm Oerlikon (my fathers assigned weapon in the US Navy, WWII), Prince of Wales I dont think had any of these but UK BBs did carry them later in the war. The British also adopted the 40mm Bofors as well, later on.


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#4236314 - 03/04/16 09:57 AM Re: Atlantic Fleet [Re: Para_Bellum]  
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The Germans never fielded a true dual-purpose secondary armament like the US did. The Bismarck also had major flaws in the firecontrol system for its 4.1" AA guns, rendering them almost useless.


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