Quote Originally Posted by knoddy View Post
played the naval battle, got my ass handed to me, but it was really good, the only thing i didnt like was the men jumping onto the enemy ship, not because they were jumping just cos they were jumping like 10 feet in the air lol. looked a bit weird, to all the people who thought it was arcady i dunno wot there problem is, YES it is a little unrealistic, but i found the turning circles not all that small.
The problem for some of us, isn't that the turning circles are small. It's that there's a concept of turning circles at all! Turning circles are for jet fighter pilots, not square-rigged ships.

Some may prefer the way this is being done, and that's fine. Everyone has a right to an opinion. Others like me, are lamenting the loss of tactical challenge. It's bumper car combat, not the slow, stately motions of ships under sail, constrained by the wind to move only in certain ways. We may differ in our views of whether this is fun or not. However, from what I've seen so far, I don't think it's debatable that naval battles are being presented as an arcade game, at a different level of realism compared to the land battles. It will be interesting to see if any of the major game review sites pick up on this.