Carrier Battles 4 Guadalcanal
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| Community | CARRIER BATTLES STILL ON BATTLE STATIONS Almost 4 years since its first launch, the game continues to be passionately followed and improved, with already 4 content-rich DLCs added to one of the most detailed simulation of the carrier battles in the Pacific. | — | |
| Community | 1.11 - Indian Ocean Raid & Royal Navy New Scenario: Indian Ocean Raid (DLC) - The Imperial Japanese Navy makes a foray into the Indian Ocean in an attempt to deter or destroy the British Eastern Fleet. - Enjoy British units Night duration depends on the map and the season. | — | |
| Community | Indian Ocean Raid Attached, a few screenshots of the Indian Ocean raid scenario to come. The foreseen rules for the armoured flight decks would be like this: - The chance to get an inoperative flight deck following a bomb hit drops from 75% to 25% per hit - A bomb or shell has more chance to hit the deck area rather than the hangar area Damage control is increase by 2 against a bomb hit, by 1 against a shell hit… | — | |
| Esports | War & Peace - Game of the Napoleonic Wars My second computer wargame in preparation, based on the superb work achieved by Mark McLaughin : War and Peace, Game of the Napoleonic wars. A Kickstarter Campaign is going to start soon ːsteamhappyː Link to the Kickstarter prelaunch page | — | |
| Major update | Carrier Battles 1.10 MP * The play-by-email has been removed as the online asynchronous mode is replacing it * Delete online account * The saved game size has been cut by half for faster downloading * During the opponent’s turn, you may write a message, surrender or send a gentle reminder Air Search * The distance used to compute the chance to find is increased by 1 every 3 hexes * A major fire increases the chance… | — | |
| Sale | AVALON DIGITAL PUBLISHER WEEKEND | — | |
| Release | 1.9 Submarines New content (in-app / DLC): - Submarines - New scenario Torpedo Alley, September 1942 Submarines - Assign patrol area, mission and target for your subs during the set-up of most of the scenarios - The computer will handle movement and encounter with enemy ships - TF will never be safe anywhere on map, so a decent DD escort is handful - Flip ships to see historical sunk date, torpedoes and depth… | — | |
| Community | Nominate Carrier Battles in the Labor of Love category You like the game, You have enjoyed the frequent updates, You feel the support reactive, You would love to keep this game evolving Then, do not hesitate and nominate Carrier Battles 4 Guadalcanal in the "Labor of Love" category Steam opens the vote between Nov 24 - Dec 11 A great thanks ! | — | |
| Major update | 1.8 Cross-platform multi-player Multi-player - Play against anyone over internet on PC/Mac/iOS/Android - Turn-by-turn asynchronous 2-player game. You don't need to both connected at the same time - Take your time to play against a challenging human opponent - The game state is automatically saved in the cloud - Login and notifications by email - Less cheat opportunity - The multi-player is free for the time being. If run-time… | — | |
| Major update | Carrier Battles 1.7 1.7 Scenarios - New what-if scenario: Operation FS July 1942. included with Advanced Fog of War - Watchtower: US carriers embed more fighters - Essex: reduced Japanese set-up area Air Operations - Preparation time estimates are more stable - CTRL-Z to undo the last action - Easier TF selection as airstrike target when within a stack - Possibility to rebase damaged air units when unable to land… | 7447257 | |
| Community | CB on Android Carrier Battles 4 Guadalcanal is now available on Android platform. It is quite similar to the desktop version, set aside screen size, some graphical tips and shortcuts. There is also a LITE version with a single scenario (Coral Sea) which allows you to see how it renders on your device. Enhancement which will come later - DLC Seaplanes and Advanced fog of war - Cross-platform multi-player Once… | — | |
| Major update | Carrier Battles 1.6 Airstrike Intelligence - Airstrikes can also be detected by airstrikes, CAP or scouts - You won’t see the detailed composition of an airstrike on map until it enters battle. Several level of intelligence are displayed in between TF Intelligence - After an air-to-sea battle, the enemy TF is displayed at the highest intelligence level - The 3rd level of intelligence shows the number of ships +/-… | — | |
| In-game event | Carrier Battles 1.5 1.5 New Scenario : Essex, September 1943 - features the carrier raid on the Gilbert islands and a plausible Japanese interception - it is included with the Seaplanes extra feature TF - Autopilot: the estimated time of arrival also mentions the arrival day Units - B24 has a greater air-to-air rating - Old Japanese BB, CV Hiyo, Junyo are faster UI: - Progress bar from scenario loading and faster… | — | |
| Community | 1.4 and Survey A big survey to improve the game The backlog of Carrier Battles 4 Guadalcanal is full of good ideas, thanks to all of you. Time has come to make some choices in order to build a decent roadmap. To do so, we need your expectations. Check out this survey! survey Non-owners of the game may answer the questionnaire. Feel free to share the link. The survey will remain open until mid-March approximat… | — | |
| Release | Seaplanes in Carrier Battles Seaplanes New option to manage your seaplanes - See and access seaplane bases - Click on any ship carrying seaplanes to enter Air Op with a zoom on current TF - Launch Search and CAP missions - Create seaplane base with tenders TF located in a seaplane spot hex - You are also allowed to observe and attack enemy seaplane bases by air and by sea Version 1.3 Search • Counters colors have been alig… | — | |
| In-game event | PBEM - JAPANESE - CHINESE Dear players of Carrier Battles 4 Guadalcanal, A new major version is now available. You may now play the game against a human opponent by using the PBEM system. Content · Play-by-Email mode · Possibility to launch a new game with a random side · Possibility to select options at random without knowing which options are active or not · The scenario info screen list the selected options for the c… | — | |
| News | Version 1.2 - Beta Hi all, Summer vacation are approaching for us and we wanted to leave a little gift for you ːsteamhappyː The Play by email feature is going to open for beta-testing Moreover, the following features comes with the 1.2 - Possibility to launch a new game with a random side - Possibility to select options at random without knowing which options are active or not - The scenario info screen list the… | — | |
| In-game event | Version 1.1 Update List of additions, modifications and changes - V 1.1 Interface · Improved behaviour of screened edge scrolling · Possibility to hide the hex grid · Hexes are thinner · Hex numbers are displayed by a right-click · Wind direction and rain/storm sounds on right-click · Possibly to display the distance from the last selected TF on the map · Use the TAB key to iterate through your TF and airstrikes… | — | |
| Community | Carrier Battles Roadmap Dear players, we must say that these last 12 days were quite stressful, in particular for our lone developer: Carrier Battles go-live, family life, school, some expected turmoil in the company employing the dev (CB is not the dev's primary job... so please help him to switch to game development) , etc…. Hopefully, major bugs have been fixed and the current version appears stable, with updates m… | — | |
| Announcement | Release Approaching... The game has entered last changes and fixes, release is as scheduled, full steam ahead... | — |
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.