There are also other things, like clouds, that hovers a bit over the map, and makes it look more alive. The water (of which there’s a lot) looks reflective, even if it’s actually not, and depending on if it’s day or night, it changes colour.
But there’s some more visual flare here than normal. The playing field is also split up into hexagons, similar to a lot of tabletop wargames. You’ve got square counters with an image and several numbers that represents each unit. Did anyone ask for a boatload of different planes? PresentationĬarrier Battles borrows some of its aesthetics from hex & counter board games. And some of the decision making you have to do are likely a bit more realistic than that of a lot of other wargames. There’s a staggering amount of different historical planes and ships in this game, and the scenarios do a decent job at portraying the different battles, at least from the perspective of a naval commander. That’s not to say that it does a bad job at representing history though.
In fact, when it comes to giving you the historical background, the game is very sparse. You’re not given a whole lot of information about these battles in the game itself, just a few sentences giving a very quick summary. My poor transport ships are in serious trouble Settingĭespite having Guadalcanal in its name, Carrier Battles is not a game that’s just focused on that the famous Battle of Guadalcanal, but rather covers a fare few engagements, from the Battle of Wake Island in late 1941, up to the earlier portions of the Bougainville campaign, starting in late 1943 (with the DLC that’s available at launch). That said, this is still not an overly complex wargame, it just requires a different approach than most other games of its type. You don’t just click on what you want to attack, and see the results, even planes take several turns to reach their destination, and during that time, you can just hope you made the right choice to send them out.
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In Carrier Battles you control fleets of either the US, or Japan in a series of scenarios, with the mighty aircraft carriers being the most important ships both you and your opponent has, and also the ships you have the most control over.Ĭarrier Battles is a rather niche game, even by strategy game standards, as it skews even more towards planning and forethought than what is the norm. Having only been introduced about 20 years prior, these ships were now arguably the most important ships of any fleet, dethroning the old king of the sea, the Battleship.Īnd it’s these behemoths that Carrier Battles 4 Guadalcanal (from here on just Carrier Battles) are focused around. And central to this conflict as a relatively new type of ship, the Aircraft carrier. The Asia-Pacific theater of World War II saw the clash of two of the world’s largest naval powers, the US and Japan.
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