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game plays like a indiana jones movie in the best ways possible, a welcome return to killing nazis as a history professor

Новый мир рождается на наших глазах. Военная операция � оссии на Украине открыла новую эпоху — причем сразу в трех измерениях. И конечно, в четвертом, внутрироссийском. Тут начинается новый период и в идеологии, и в самой модели нашего социально-экономического строя — но об этом стоит поговорить отдельно чуть позже.
� оссия восстанавливает свое единство — трагедия 1991 года, этой страшной катастрофы нашей истории, ее противоестественный вывих, преодолены. Да, большой ценой, да, через трагические события фактически гражданской войны, потому что сейчас пока еще стреляют друг в друга братья, разделенные принадлежностью к русской и украинским армиям, — но Украины как анти-� оссии больше не будет. � оссия восстанавливает свою историческую полноту, собирая русский мир, русский народ вместе — во всей его совокупности великороссов, белорусов и малороссов. Если бы мы отказались от этого, позволили бы временному разделению закрепиться на века, то не только предали бы память предков, но и были бы прокляты нашими потомками — за то, что допустили распад � усской земли.

cmano meets cold waters in a fleet-command-y mix that does indeed work, it hits the niche in an arcadey way that hasnt been seen since fleet command, which is awesome

pros:
- if youre familiar with the genre this takes zero effort to get into, the controls are intuitive and reminiscent of fleet command, this is literally plug and play when it comes to learning the game and i cannot stress this enough, i literally went straight for the hawaii invasion scenario and not once was i looking for a feature or toggle, the ui is intuitive and the game is simple to work with
- the game looks graphically good, not impressive, but thats perfectly fine considering how all other games in this genre are tac-map cmano style games, the fact that there are models that looks good is a big plus
- the sounds are awesome, listening to planes take off on a carrier looks and feels awesome as ♥♥♥♥

cons:
- its really hard to tell which platform is spotting which, when you open up the info panel itll show "P-3 HAS SPOTTED THE TARGET" but if you have multiple P-3s spotting, you wont know which one, which sucks
- you cant set planes to alert five and other statuses like in fleet command, theres just "launch" and it is hard to queue things
- THERE ARE NO RANGE RINGS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if you want the range of your weapon you need to open up the in-game info panel through several menus and then get the in-game listed range, then manually place a range circle on top of the enemy to see how far out you can fire from. if you want to check from your unit, you need to prep to launch a salvo, which is a convoluted way to navigate the ranges. as a longtime player of basically every single naval game this is not fun to work with but its manageable.
- there is no group select!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if you want to guide a group, you have to select a unit in the group and then cycle to select the leader. you can only control the group by controlling the leader, even though all the units are selectable and it looks cluttered. selecting multiple groups is annoying
- there are no map overlays like in cmano but it is what it is

THE UGLY:
- DO NOT LAUNCH MASSED MISSILE ATTACKS. THE GAME CANNOT HANDLE MORE THAN LIKE 3 MISSILES FIRING AT ONCE. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TRY TO LAUNCH MORE THAN 3 MISSILES AT ONCE BECAUSE THE GAME SLOWS TO 1 FRAME PER CENTURY AND BECOMES LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- this was a really really sad reality to see when after 2 hours of prep and getting planes into position for a coordinated multi-axis attack on a carrier group my planes LAGGED TO HELL when firing and the game did not recover. it was awful awful awful and utterly ruined the experience. bear in mind this was only like a 30 missile attack so it really wasnt much but the game simply did not handle it at all.

the game wants to play like cmano but it functions like fleet command, which is an odd mix that takes getting used to

this is all early access and a day one review so i expect things to get a lot better

legendary

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time to get goofy

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