Changelog: Now all ships, except civilian ones, can lay smoke from their funnels to obscure visibility. In addition, high-tier destroyers can also lay chemical smokes. Significant changes has been made to the projectile dispersion mechanics: Now, when firing artillery, in additio
Historical context. It is obvious that smoke screens were widely used in naval battles during World War I, but information about their technology and tactics in the internet is fragmented and incomplete. It appears that in addition to traditional funnel smokes produced by reducin
Changelog: A new dialog box for managing damage control teams has been added for all turn phases. It can be opened by clicking the button in the “Crew” section of ship status panel in the upper right corner of the screen. It allows to disband, reassemble and replenish damage cont
Changelog: The damage control system has been reworked. I wrote a detailed article about this on Indie DB . Added Damage control teams that can be assigned to repair modules, firefighting and holes patching. Damage control teams replaced the old priorities assignment system. The
Added a set of screech sounds of the hull of sinking ships. Barbette and casemate artillery turrets are now susceptible to soot as a result of fire, just like open deck mounts. Fire extinguishing in a compartment can now be performed even if the fire is so strong that the crew ca
A big update that is the result of long period of work to give a more natural list and trim behaviour to a partially submerged ship. The first German battlecruiser, Von der Tann, is also here. Changelog: Von der Tann class battlecruiser has been added for German Empire. More phys
New weather and time of day options have been added. A "Fog" slider has been added to Custom Battle screen. Thunderstorm and cloudy weather have been added to the Weather selector of the Custom Battle screen. The Morning and Evening Time of Day options of the Custom Battle screen
A hotkey to focus the camera on the selected ship (“F” by default) has been added. A couple of bugs have been fixed.
"View report" button displaying "Battle Report" UI screen has been added to the UI showing the battle result. Free camera is now automatically activated along with the UI displaying the battle result. All ships can now surrender if their position is bad. The chance of warships su
The positive effect of the best fire control systems on projectile spread has been slightly reduced. The algorithm for generating random commanders has been changed to make their professional characteristics more equal. The calculation of the effect of ship pitching on artillery
Artillery accuracy has been significantly reduced. The effect on rough seas on artillery accuracy has been increased. The minimum and maximum values of “Projectile spread” slider of the Settings screen has been changed. Added the ability to choose between the tight shell pattern
Hotseat mode (the ability to select both sides as human players) has been added. The difficulty, time of day and weather UI selectors of Custom Battle screen have been changed to save space in the UI. Several minor performance optimizations have been made. Several errors in the a
Bellerophon-class dreadnought battleship has been added for British Empire. A new mission “Battle of the early dreadnought squadrons” has been added. Control posts (conning towers) can now be of two types: fire control and movement control, or fire control only. Now, if an active
Added an interval of one turn for the crew to occupy serviced modules after increasing modules priority or after the death or injury of the crew. Tooltips has been added to some elements of the ship status panel in the upper corners (only for friendly ships). Extended the functio
Added submerged torpedo tubes for large surface ships (except Majestic, which will be replaced by another model). The map UI can now also display the history of torpedo launches. A 'Difficulty' tab has been added to the Settings screen with two settings: Checkbox ‘Show map scale
A couple of bugs have been fixed.
A checkbox ‘Show all ships on the artillery firing history map’ has been added to the settings screen, which allows you to enable or disable the display of all alive ships on the artillery firing history map. A couple of graphics optimizations of the main menu 3d scene were made.
The armor model of all ships except Majestic has been reworked in order to increase the performance of large explosions. Openings in armored decks above magazines were modeled. The number of projectiles that explode when an artillery turret is damaged is now randomized, and the m
Changed the blast hole area formula to make holes from smaller explosions much larger. Ship collisions now cause significant amount of structural damage to nearby bulkheads. A couple of bugs have been fixed.
Slightly increased ocean rendering performance. Slightly increased the range of blast waves in the air. A selector has been added to the settings screen to control the visibility of ship labels UI in battle. A couple of bugs have been fixed.