#Naval Combat

[illustratus]

Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Cape St Vincent 14th February, 1797. 'All hands to board' roared Nelson...

by Robert Alexander Hillingford

[ghostriderslade]

U.S.S. Wisconsin

[tabletopbellhop]

New #Boardgame #Unboxing

Seas of Havoc: Sea Monster Edition from Rock Manor Games

This is a mash up of Naval Wargame, Deck Builder and Worker Placement Engine Builder that manages to blend all that extremely well.

Check out what you get in the box!

[linuxgamenews]

Waves of Steel to face brand new threats in v1.0

Waves of Steel naval combat sim game launches on both Linux and Windows PC. Which is the result of the labor thanks to developer TMA Games. Which is available on Steam with 89% Very Positive reviews. Waves of Steel is the build your own battleship (BYOB) arcade naval combat sim from TMA Games. Which has successfully navigated the waters of Early Access. Today, it finally docks at v1.0, bearing a weighty cargo of new over the top naval combat gameplay. Doing so after nearly four long years. The developers originally started working on Waves of Steel back in 2019. Then hitting Early Access in July 2021. Which was due to be a relaxing project for down-time between jobs. Needless to say, things got a little out of control. But the important thing is, the game is complete. Venture into v1.0’s single player campaign, now including the debut of the final 7 of the story’s 33 missions. Confront brand new threats, including ships that can transform into Gundam-inspired mechs. Also, the overwhelming power of “The Biggest Gun”. Equip ships with beyond cutting edge weaponry like railguns and plasma torpedoes. Test out special abilities that let a 50000 ton warship dance like a fighter jet.

Waves of Steel launch trailer

Upgrade your mighty vessel by collecting the remains of fallen foes. ANd also discovering hidden treasures. Customize the more than 50 different playable ships with over 450 different ship parts. Make any ship as historically (in)accurate as you want with custom flags, paint jobs, and decals. Take advantage of the Waves of Steel extensive accessibility options. So you can customize controls, set any or all weapons to autofire, and change the HUD’s colors. Even tweak the game’s speed. Set up grand melees in Free Play mode against your choice of ships from across the entire campaign. Anyone and everyone can take to the captain’s chair. Then conquer the cartoonishly dangerous waters of Waves of Steel. Streamer captains can put fate in the hands of viewers. All thanks to Crowd Control integration. The audience can call down raining meteors and orbital lasers, or scramble your controller. They can activate cheats like Big Head Mode. Even turn individual enemy ships into specially named minibosses. Waves of Steel naval combat sim game launches on Steam. Along with a 25% discount, dropping the price to $14.99 USD / £11.61 / 12,59€. Along with support for Linux and Windows PC. Plus the games also Steam Deck Verified.

[captain-price-unofficially]

The MV SOUNION ship in the Red Sea detonates after violating the Yemeni ban on Israeli shipping, 23 Aug 2024

[nocternalrandomness]

US Navy Rescue Hawk in the Persian Gulf

[fauvester]

time honored garak-bashir tradition of dangerous holosuite romps

[good-to-drive]

When I was in high school I was president of history club but literally all we did was argue about which historical figure would win in a fight so to this day I have little meaningful knowledge of history but I do have an uncomfortably detailed theory on why Lincoln could kick Eisenhower's ass

[kradogsrats]

so I'd assumed the reason there wasn't any naval warfare to speak of between Xadia and the human kingdoms for a thousand years was that the Spinning Sea prevented east/west travel in the south Charybdis-style and the Frozen Sea prevented it in the north The Terror-style, but s5 shows that apparently??? they've been able to just sail around the Spinning Sea???? all along??????

anyway I was thinking about that and piracy and was suddenly like "wait a minute, none of these fucking ships have any cannons, what the Disney-ass fuck???" and it honest to god took me a solid five minutes to remember that there's probably still a generation or two between now and someone in Katolis inventing gunpowder and causing everyone to have a bad time

[illustratus]

The Battle of Jutland, 31 May, 1916. Grand Fleet coming into action

by Bernard Finnigan Gribble

[marvelslut16]

I love all of the og Top Gun fics I read, but it always bugs me when the female reader is in Top Gun with Goose, Mav, and Iceman. Because the Navy didn't even let women be fighter pilots when the movie came out. They were granted that in the mid 90s. And the first woman to graduate Top Gun was in 2004. Some historical inaccuracies in fics are to be expected, but it bugs me to no end that how sexist the Navy was (and still is) is so glossed over in day to day life, that people just assume women were allowed to be fighter pilots in the 80s- 30 to 40 years ago.

[historyofguns]

The article "German Human Torpedoes — D-Day’s Nazi Suicide Subs?" by Tom Laemlein explores the development and deployment of the Nazi "human torpedo" mini-submarine during World War II. Developed by the Kriegsmarine under Richard Mohr, these manned torpedoes, including the initial Neger and later Marder models, were part of Germany's desperate attempts to counter Allied naval forces during the Mediterranean and Normandy invasions. Despite their simplistic design, these weapons were highly dangerous to both their operators and enemy forces, often resulting in a high mortality rate among pilots. The article details the technical specifications, operational challenges, and significant combat engagements involving these mini-subs, concluding with insights from U.S. Naval Intelligence based on interrogations of captured German pilots.

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has conducted a special operation in Novorossiysk Bay, Russia, and a naval drone damaged the Olenegorskiy Gornyak large landing ship.

Source: an Ukrainska Pravda source in the Security Service of Ukraine

Quote: "The video shows a SBU surface drone loaded with 450 kilograms of TNT attacking an enemy ship with about 100 crew members on board."(..)

P.S. Very good news! Ukrainian drone operations against Russian Black Sea Navy warships are quite successful... In fact, all cargo ships servicing Russian ports are also a perfectly legitimate target, as Russian foreign trade and shipping companies finance Russian war and Russian army war crimes against Ukrainian civilians.

[captain-price-unofficially]

Footage of USS Washington (BB 56) defending TF-58 against an IJN air attack off Saipan during the Marianas campaign, June 15, 1944.