Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail

[Luka-boy]

Is it good? Not interested in the ships so much but I want musket fights.

The game's fine, but I wouldn't get it if what you're interested in is land battles from that era. The primary focus is naval combat and I'd even say land battles are in general worse than in their previous games.

Reading some comments from the devs, I get the feeling they added it as an extra and a way of testing the new engine for their American Revolution game. It's no wonder they are skippable with no negative consequences in the campaign.

I mean, disembarking from ships and having them bombard the enemies is cool, but having to deal with a ton of small units zooming around the place, not to mention enemy units retreating and coming back thirty seconds later that you won't even see until they're almost at firing range is infuriating. Way more than in UGCW.

Also hey good news, scaling is a toggleable option now.

 

[Andnjord]

Is it good? Not interested in the ships so much but I want musket fights.

The game's fine, but I wouldn't get it if what you're interested in is land battles from that era. The primary focus is naval combat and I'd even say land battles are in general worse than in their previous games.

Reading some comments from the devs, I get the feeling they added it as an extra and a way of testing the new engine for their American Revolution game. It's no wonder they are skippable with no negative consequences in the campaign.

I mean, disembarking from ships and having them bombard the enemies is cool, but having to deal with a ton of small units zooming around the place, not to mention enemy units retreating and coming back thirty seconds later that you won't even see until they're almost at firing range is infuriating. Way more than in UGCW.

Also hey good news, scaling is a toggleable option now.

More than any mechanical problem, my main gripe with the land combat is that the scenarios are just completely forgettable. I can remember most of the battles from UG:CW and how they play out in game (and some of my favourite maneouvres and strats), and several of the sea battles from Age of Sail. But nothing for the land battles. Which is fine, because you're suposed to buy this if and only if you're interested in the naval combat.

If it's muskets you want, get the Ultimate General: Civil War game from the same developpers, or get Grand Tactician: The Civil War (yes, those names are terrible, especially when viewed side by side )

 

[Joggerino]

This is an impostor, the true age of sail was made by akella 20 years ago.

Spoiler

 

[Burning Bridges]

Akellas game crashed a lot though.

 

[Joggerino]

Akellas game crashed a lot though.

I don't really remember having such problems. Did you play Pirates of the Caribbean with the New Horizons mod?

 

[Burning Bridges]

Age of Sail Privateers bounty

That's also the game your screenshot was from.

 

[Sinilevä]

The naval combat is pretty disorganized when you have to control multiple ships. There are way to many things you have to watch, which requeres a lot of micromanagement. The land combat, like people already said, is a secondary thing for this game. In that regard Ultimate General is a way better game. For some reason the visuals of Admiral are also worse than in General.

 

[Grotesque]

this game rocks!

 

[oscar]

It's pretty good. Finding it quite a bit easier than Civil War though (though a lot of the difficulty even in Civil War was working out what are the skill point traps and what is efficient use of your money). Capturing ships gives you a huge advantage over sinking them (you can send them back to the admiralty for rep or keep them for yourself if you have enough rep, much much better than buying them).

Taking the option to ignore land battles also makes the game easier as more cash to spend on your precious beautiful ships.

Naval combat feels plausible and satisfying. Age of Sail naval tactics weren't that complicated (as Nelson himself showed). Try cut their T if you want to shoot them up, get in close and grapeshot them to hell if you want to board.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1069650/view/2939151018135576877

mprovements in land battles
We are happy to announce further improvements in land battles.
You can see the changes in the video:

Patch v1.1.6 rev.38061

1. Fixed an issue where if a part of a unit entered at the corner of the defender's sector, range attack was canceled
2. Fixed an issue with no re-suppling when the unit moved inside the supply range of a supply unit
3. Fixed an issue where a unit could remain stuck with reloading animation
4. Fixed a bug due to which artillery could get stuck while trying to go through destroyed sandboxes

 

[Burning Bridges]

What happens when I sail to the edge of the map? Do the ships hit a wall like in the Truman show?

 

[Andnjord]

What happens when I sail to the edge of the map? Do the ships hit a wall like in the Truman show?

They keep on sailing and start a timer. At the end of the timer, if the ship did not turn around it will retreat from the battle.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Possible competitor coming.

 

[JarlFrank]

Possible competitor coming.

The visual design is a bit weird for a real time strategy game. I've seen this kind of board game style unit representation in turn based games before, where it fits, but here it looks really weird.

 

[Sinilevä]

Possible competitor coming.

The visual design is a bit weird for a real time strategy game. I've seen this kind of board game style unit representation in turn based games before, where it fits, but here it looks really weird.

It would be ok, if it wasn't in 3d.