Navy Field (Free Online WWII Naval Sim Game)

[Thordic]

http://www.navyfield.com/

Its in Beta right now, so its free. Its a pretty cool game, although the lack of documentation makes it a bit confusing at the start.

You start off with a frigate and a rookie crew, and you have to work your way up the food chain. After your sailors gain enough experience you can upgrade to destroyers, cruisers, aircraft carriers, or battleships.

You get to choose between one of four ship-trees, USA, UK, Germany, and Japan. The ships in the game are modeled after real-life ships such as the Yamato and the Bismark.

Its fun and frustrating at the same time, but its a free beta, and worth giving a shot, IMO.

Its around a 300MB download, but I don't think the requirements are that high so you don't need a supermachine to play it.

A bunch of us on my forums have started playing, theres a thread on it there too.

http://www.thordic.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1773

The more players the better, so go sign up. I warn you its kinda addicting.

[Eagle]

Playing as a frig? Crap, gimme a submarine any day. They put more tonnage on the bottom then anyone, especially a frigate.

[Thordic]

There are no subs in the game, surface ships only.

Submarines would be hard to integrate with the way the game works, first off, and secondly, the game is all about big fleet battles. Subs weren't part of fleets.

[MiniSpdRcr]

I cant download it...it says it is not found on their servers. ???

[Thordic]

Hrm. Maybe they are updating the download version. They had a bunch of updates lately, maybe they are incorporating them into the installer.

Hopefully its back up soon.

You can get it off download.com, but I don't reccomend it. That version is kinda old and for some reason tends to crash even if you update it, but if you want to give it a shot, you can try it.

[Eagle]

Subs weren't part of fleets.

Ah no, now you gone and done it. Need I bring up the subject of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, where if it weren't for the participation of 2 of our FLEET boats (the Drum and the Dace I think, but I'm not sure) the battle would have been a hell of a lot different.

[Miscue]

I've been playing Silent Hunter III lately... it's a good WWII sub game. I still like the old school Red Storm Rising game from way back.

[fire1811]

I've been playing Silent Hunter III lately... it's a good WWII sub game. I still like the old school Red Storm Rising game from way back.

hell I still bust out silent service for NES every now and again. great game

[Thordic]

Ah no, now you gone and done it. Need I bring up the subject of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, where if it weren't for the participation of 2 of our FLEET boats (the Drum and the Dace I think, but I'm not sure) the battle would have been a hell of a lot different.

As a general rule they were not part of fleets. DOn't be a picky *****.

If you dont wanna play the game, then don't play it. BUt everyone I know who has tried it liked it. So try it or don't try it, but stop *****ing.

[Jakedubbleya]

I cant download it...it says it is not found on their servers. ???

qft, sounds cool tho, ill dl it later.

[SpecialBlend2786]

yeah it looks fun as hell. I'll download it when it comes back up.

[devildog]

the auto install is down, but the manual install seems to work. im about halfway through the download right now.

[Thordic]

Couple screen shots to tempt those who havn't signed up yet :)

[Steelrat]

I attempted to download the game, and then my lifebooks hard drive self destructed. Coincidence?

[Steelrat]

Can you get something other than the old battleships, like the Tenn pictured there? You know, something like the Iowas?

I can't wait to play this game, looks awesome.