Baltic Encounter (Update)

This is the first single mission in Naval War: Arctic Circle and it is set in the Baltic Sea, with my forces arrayed just south of Karlskrona, Sweden sitting atop some shipping lanes which makes the scenario quite plausible. The description indicates that enemy forces are putting pressure on Germany and Denmark. Although there is no information on these enemy forces, at least I am told that I am on my own out there as there are no land based aircraft available to assist.

The objective of the mission is straightforward enough: destroy at least two surface combatants while not losing two or more of my surface ships. From the outset I verify that my weapon orders are set to “Fire on all Cleared Targets” with “Threat Detection as Hostile”, “Automatic Evasion” and “Automatic Active Sensor Response” all checked.

Naval War: Arctic Circle Impressions

The game was released by Turbo Tape Games/Paradox Interactive in April 2012. Long story short it is a real time naval strategy game. A DLC named Operation Tarnhelm was recently released adding some new missions; however some glaring issues have yet to been fixed. While the game is interesting and immersive, it struggles to be anything more than a bargain bin diamond in the ruff.

Several users have reported repeated freezing, although I have not experienced any yet in working through the various interactive tutorials and attempting the first single player mission. However, what I did run into was the patently absurd omission of a save game feature.