Slitherine

Some screenshots of a PBEM++ naval battle Dave (Myrddraal) and I were testing today. With some totally objective screen captions!

Sailing in close formation for maximum AA support, my Imperial Fleet is unimpressed by Dave's pesky F4F Wildcat fighter.


After taking significant damage from Long Lance torpedo volleys, the Americans have started to return fire!


Sinking, exploding and burning ships all around us. Glory to the Emperor!

Very nice!

Two questions:

1. What are the two numbers attached to each air unit?

2. What does the color of the ship's health mean? Supply?

Looking forward to playing this one

The numbers attached to the air units represent that unit's fuel level. Specifically, the number refers to the number of turns remaining before that unit must land on a carrier or airfield.

The colour of the strength number represents unit efficiency. Naval units have unique efficiency rules which we are still in the process of testing and refining. For all unit classes low efficiency makes units more vulnerable in defense and less effective in attack.

Incidentally, I'm pretty sure that Lukas tweaks the unit stats and combat mechanics to favour whatever faction he plans to play as next.

Also, I'm sure it will come as no surprise to you all that Lukas designed the scenario shown above... he had 4 carrier unit to my two...

Looks fantastic!