Steam slipways upgrade#

Steam slipways upgrade#

Ports will work like cities in Rome Total War, having buildings that you can upgrade to allow construction/repair of various sizes of ships. When attacking an enemy fleet/port any fleet/port in the 9 squares around it will be able to participate in the battle (if they arrive in time/participate will be determened by technology, weather and how powerful your computer is) Ships can be merged or detached from a fleet at any time Movement on the campaign map is on a square grid. Have the campaign gameplay work like Rome Total War (a game that Darth knows well). My ideas for campaign improvements/rework: Without disturbing my newly planned BBs? Can I expand my slipways while building, refitting or repairing a ship in it? Do I have to hold off on refitting/repairing a ship in dry dock because there's simply no space at the moment?ĭo I invest in the longterm strenght of my navy, increasing not only the size of slipways but **number of them** - laying a solid foundation to build and **support** my navy in the long run? What if a shipyard is occupied by a refiting of an older ship? Can I refit all my ships at once (Again, historical) Questions and dilemmas such as these arise: With this added feature the player has to think long-term much more. In Rule The Waves 1/2 for example, I would constantly be increasing Shipyard Sizes, and every generation of BBs would just get bigger and bigger, always on the edge of this arbitrary-seeming Cap. This would also - and the more I think about it this is actually perhaps the most important argument for this feature - finally give more incentive to keep ship designs smaller!!! Germany can't just build 8 battleships at a time, there are capacities on for example aquiring certain naval guns (granted, managing gun industry would be a feature too far) but especially slipways, shipyards. Somebody once said 'Naval Strategy is Build strategy'. This feature would add sooo much to the strategic thinking that's necessary for a balanced and monetarily responsible long-term ship building strategy. This all could be made optional for players looking for a more simplified, abstracted experience.īut if you were a Tirpiz, a First Sea Lord - these were the kinds of dilemmas and decisions you would face. But 2-12+ Shipyards (depending on what nation you're playing and how far the campaign has progressed)? Should be managable. I do think these Shipyards should only be necessary for ships above a certain size - as there were (truly) a lotttt of shipyards for smaller ships - that would (truly) be tedious to manage. In the reverse way perhaps it could be possible to buy/lease private Shipyards - costing 10 percent or so more in maintenance. (To add Cherry on top perhaps they could even be 'leased' to build for private shipbuilding - Titanic etc - in times of lower budgets and/or tensions. We are also able to expand shipyards' sizes (during which I guess they should not be able to operate) and build new ones of specifiable size.īuilding them should take perhaps close to what it takes to build a capital ship itself - two to three years - they should cost some maintenance - directly depending on their size.

For every Shipyard one 'Card'-View-Element will be visible, in it we see the silhouette the ship currently beeing build/refurbished/refitted/repaired and it's remaining time to finish occupying said precious, precious capital ship -yard. Let's have a 'Shipyards'-Tab in which we see a list of our nation's Shipyards and how they are occupied right now.

Let's think Shipyards as what the historically were: Individual and gigantic infrastructures, taking a long time to build, limiting very directly the number of capital ships a navy could lay down (or refit/sometimes even repair (when there was heavy damage)) at a time. Instead of increasing all my Shipyards' (which are of a practically unlimited number as of now and in Rule the Waves 2) sizes at once with the click on a button. This leads to countries with far less developed shipbuilding capacities (Especially _military_ navy shipbuilding capacities) beeing able to unrealistically easily catch up with historically naval power houses such as the UK and the US, where Shipbuilding (and number of Shipyards) far surpassed that of other navies (Germany, Russia, Ottoman empire, etc.). As of now, whether there are available facilities to build a certain ship, is determined by the abstraction of 'Shipyard Size'.