#Age of sail 2 full#
#Age of sail 2 software#
#Age of sail 2 professional#

We have had no news from home, no news from Jamaica, no news at all! There is a saying, during war no news is good news. Promotion is better choice, right? We are anchored in the mouth of the San Juan River and there we wait. I dreamed of staying on HMS Richmond - but to do so I would have had to remain a lieutenant. Recommended to new players.Д¬hapter 2 - Expedition I have been promoted to Captain and given command of a brig and an old sloop. The best units of the British Empire are available to you, but earning recognition and building a reputation is difficult in the finest military in the world. You will receive ample funding and a wide range of ships and equipment to create your fleet and army. Your order is to protect England and become a legendary naval hero for centuries to come! Rule the Waves! You will take the role of a British naval commander. As such, there's always a risk that the ship will be captured by the enemy or lost. HOWEVER, the chance of success is determined by your career skills and the quality of ship sent. The side missions do not expire until you end your turn, so you can finish real time battles beforehand.

Side missions cannot be tackled directly and require sending out ships from your fleet.

trading captives taken during battles to the opposing side, deciding whether to fight both land and naval battles, or just one side thereof, and so on and so forth.

Occasionally, you'll be presented with choices.

You can skip some missions, but you will miss out on money, reputation, the chance to obtain better ships and overall it's ill-advised. Naval and land battles are self-explanatory, and require you to flex your tactical muscle and prepare a carefully picked crew to tackle the dangers awaiting beyond.

The campaign is essentially a turn-based strategy mode where you manage your fleet, featuring a mix of naval, land, and side missions.

#Age of sail 2 full#

The scenario editor allows creation of new campaigns or editing of existing missions, with full control over nearly every aspect of gameplay from adjustments to weather conditions and scripts to inserting ships and landscapes. Up to 16 players can participate via LAN or the Internet with adjustable game settings like fog of war, the ability to lock the server, game speed, and difficulty level. Battles include ship-to-ship, forts, towns, and coastal batteries, with weather, islands, and shoals impacting tactical decisions.

Unique specifications attend each ship in terms of year, number of guns, power rating, hull, crew, mariners, mizzen mast, main mast, fore mast, speed, depth, freeboard, weight, and turn rates.

#Age of sail 2 professional#

Ships are separated into 13 levels of effectiveness, and crews are ranked by six efficiency ratings ranging from professional to inexperienced. Enhanced ship maneuverability (creating groups, wind direction, sail control, headings, waypoints, formations), four types of ammunition (ball, chain-shot, grapeshot, and double-ball), different caliber guns, and enemy confrontations (boarding, attacking) are but a part of the experience of navigating 19th century sailing ships. The new units featured in Age of Sail II: Privateer's Bounty include an air balloon, submarine, steam paddleboat, fire ship, and bomb vessel. All scenarios from the original game are included, but with advanced ship damage modeling, improved graphics, floating 3D cameras, non-linear campaigns, new weather effects, revamped game interface, crew discipline levels, and more than 1,200 historically rendered warships.

#Age of sail 2 software#

Global Star Software upgrades and reissues Akella's Age of Sail II, originally published by Talonsoft, with Privateer's Bounty, adding more than 20 new single-mission scenarios, five new units, and a comprehensive scenario editor.