War on the Sea

Superb game. 2d strategic map with 3d battles. Carriers launching fighter planes attacking scout planes spotting submarines for destroyers protecting merchants and cruisers, also under attack from carrier dive-bombers and torpedo bombers, while battleships use their range to try to stop the carriers. Can be carnage, because it's war. On, over, and under the sea - but perhaps they thought that title wasn't catchy enough ^^. Apart from the tutorials, you can play set-piece or custom single battles or longer campaigns. Single battles allow you to test a variety of tactics while the entire strategic approach you take to campaigns is open. Which ships (and aircraft) you assemble, where they go, how they fight. There are some janky bugs - for instance, a couple of my spotter planes just detected an approaching enemy fleet (on the strategic campaign map). On transfer to the 3d tactical world the planes looked around and then the enemy spawned ... all run aground on an island. One of the them was instantly reported as sunk and the others took damage. At other times I've had a convoy attacked by a submarine and 4 destroyers unable to find the slightest trace of it, Some you win, some you lose.