FIGHTING STEEL is a simulation of World War II surface naval combat between 1939 and 1942. This was the last heyday of the really big ships; the battleships and cruisers, before submarines and especially aircraft carriers made their big impact on the war.
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You command anything from a single ship up to multiple divisions of ships, giving orders on heading, speed, targets, torpedoes, smoke screens, and more. It is all in real-time, so it’s good that the interface is easy and quick to use.
There are four navies featured in Fighting Steel: The Japanese, American, German, and Royal Navy, with more than 90 ship classes and more than 1000 vessels. All the best known ships are there, including the Bismarck, Graf Spee, Hood, and Yamato.
The navies have different characteristics. For instance, the Americans had excellent damage control systems but terrible torpedoes, while the Japanese had excellent torpedoes but no radar.
There are a dozen or so historical scenarios available, including the hunting of the Bismarck and the Battle of the River Plate.
The real meat of the game is the campaigns. You can play historical campaigns of the Kriegsmarine versus the Royal Navy in the Atlantic, or the United States Navy versus the Imperial Japanese Navy around Guadalcanal.
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If you’re into “what if” history, then try a fantasy campaign of the Japanese versus Germans, or Americans versus British. You set the length of campaign, difficulty factor, and time of campaign. The campaign is based around managing your ships, posting some on patrol and others to rest. After each turn the computer calculates whether any of the ships or fleets on patrol have encountered enemy. If so, its off to battle!
Once in a battle you can give orders to each ship separately, or to all the ships within a division. You set the heading and speed of the ships, and once contact with the enemy is established you can set target priorities for each ship, for the main and the secondary guns.
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You’ll have to get used to using each ship type in its proper role. If you go in guns blazing with a destroyer against a cruiser or battleship you won’t last long, but if you keep your destroyers back, or operate behind a smokescreen, till the big ships are engaged or damaged you can zip in and unload a torpedo barrage.
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Some battles occur at night, giving ships with radar a great advantage. You can use starshells and searchlights to spot the enemy and target the big guns, but these often help the enemy to find you as well.
Fighting Steel. Fighting Steel - SSI showed Fighting Steel during the 1998 E3 show, and from what I saw of the sim this time around it was almost complete. Joel Billings, the producer of
The battles look nice. You can rotate and zoom the camera, which looks down on your ships in all their 3D glory. With all the graphic options turned on you see a heaving sea, clouds, smoke, explosions, guns belching flames, flags rippling, and wakes behind the ships.
Fighting Steel. Fighting Steel - SSI showed Fighting Steel during the 1998 E3 show, and from what I saw of the sim this time around it was almost complete. Joel Billings, the producer of
There are several automatic camera actions that can be selected, for example, following the first shells on their flight to the target, watching as an enemy ship is hit or sunk, and so on.
The Bismarck begins ranging with her secondary guns. I order the Bismarck to turn to port.
The sound is good too. It increases in volume as you get closer to the ships, and you can hear the boom of the guns, the whistling of the shells falling, and the crackle of fires onboard.
A German destroyer opens fire on the convoy.
Fighting Steel is SSI. It requires a Pentium 200-megahertz processor, 64 megabytes of Ram, quad-speed CD-Rom drive, 4Mb 3D graphics card, and recommends a good soundcard. You can play multiplayer on the Internet.
A German destroyer opens fire on the convoy. The Bismarck begins ranging with her secondary guns.
It comes with a scenario editor, and there are already a load of scenarios available on various Web sites. The latest patch can be downloaded from the SSI Web site.
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If you’re into naval wargaming then Fighting Steel will be keep you happy for a long time.
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