Does anybody else know...

[Kraut]

the game Rule the Waves? Part 3 game out May this year and beeing new to this subgenre and Admiral Dreadnoughts beeing my first i am bit stunned about the ...similarities.. these games share... i mean... down to text lines in the evens about Regattas, fishing boat incidents or ambassodors / chancellors saying stupid things or industry wants this and that.

I mean, i want competition and i support copieing good game ideas / mechanics but i think in this case someone went a lot further than just taking some inspiration or taking over some core mechanics. 

The games are literally the same with the only major distinction beeing that one exucutes the tactical battles in 3D and the other in 2D. The Latter has some better / deeper Mechanics regarding Crew Training for example or even offers Doctrine settings. And it has planes. So not for wussies 😛 And a decent task force creation tool.... instead of building taskforces by moving ships via map at the same point...

I suspect a lot of veterans of this genre to be around here so i wonder why i cant find any mentioning of said game via forum search. Maybe the search let me down. i didnt searched manually thru all the topics here.

Edited October 14, 2023 by Kraut

[Astor]

UAD takes a lot of inspiration from RTW.

Many do not know RTW because before RTW3 it was not available on steam (just through their website).

While I like both games, I prefer the battles in UAD more, as it's something else to see your creations in battle.

RTW is great in it's own way ofc, the non combat is great and deep - but for some it might be too much excel sheets.