Battleships and Carriers 2: 1940-1945

Game Details

Title: Battleships and Carriers 2: 1940-1945
Genre: Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Developer: SLS
Publisher: SLS
Release Date: 25 Sep, 2024
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2949090/Battleships_and_Carriers_2__19401945/

About This Game

Casual WW2 naval turn-based strategy: attack/defend, search & destroy, build ships and airplanes. Clear and simple combat and move. Fast, re-playable board game style strategy. Easy combat execution and control: just plug and play.

Different mission objectives (destroy, conquer, defend, escort, kill-them-all).
Sort of dynamic XXL battleship game, with over 70 moveable ship/aircraft/submarine/artillery unit types, with huge tactical and strategic maps, and unit production.

Non-historical and historical missions, campaigns and death-matches from World War II.
Pixel perfect, 2D, retro style, WW2.

Features

-New air-carrier based aircraft units (deck dive bombers, anti-sub, torpedo bombers, deck fighters)
-More than 70 combat unit types: ships, submarines, aircraft, radar, anti-air and coastal artillery (20 new unit types)
-new Air Base objects: base your non-carrier fighter/bomber wings around Air Bases. Protect it with new anti-air artillery types (Single Air Base capacity: up to 8 air wings )
-New tactical maps: USA East Coast, Britain, Great Pacific, North Atlantic, North Africa, Iceland, Norway, Eastern Mediterranean, plus improved B&C Pacific maps incl. Guadalcanal, Saipan, Guam, Tarawa, Aleutians, Japan Sea.
-Control WW2 navies: US Navy, Royal Navy, Kriegsmarine, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Australian Navy, Italian Regia Marina, Imperial Japan Navy
–Ships and aircraft production: create your own fleet (up to 200 units), equip your aircraft carriers with naval air wings, earn production points and get more ships/subs/planes/artillery units during the missions
–Group movement: simultaneously move your task forces up to 100 ships
– Unlimited game-play: WW2 scenarios, death-matches and campaigns with various missions and objectives: conquer ports, destroy enemy units, neutralize air bases, defend your own ports and airfields, secure convoy, kill-them-all
-Tactical / strategy maps mode, with zoom-in-out option
-New unit type attributes: Fire Power (Air, Surface, Anti-sub) and Fuel capacity, in addition to Armor, Radar and Speed
-Historic names and more than 100 officer ranks

Estimated Playtime: ( 45 hours in total )
– 40 missions, Free Hunt and Death-Matches: 20-90 minutes per each scenario
– campaigns: 3-6 hours per campaign

List of scenarios, Death-matches, Free Hunt and campaigns:
Invasion U.S. East
Saipan
Crete Operation 1941
Tarawa – Pacific 1942
Full Pacific War
Rommel Support
Guadalcanal – Imperial Navy
Operation Forager – Saipan
Operation Guam
Death-Match Gilbert Islands
Free Hunt Tobruk Africa Corps
Sea Lion – Counteroffensive
El Alamein Support
Husky – Operation Sicily
Free Hunt Solomon Islands
Iceland – Operation Ikarus
Yamamoto on North
Dutch Harbor 1943
Death Match German KriegsMarine
Death-Match Saipan
Canada Defense
Road to Okinawa
Downfall Japan
Free Hunt Atlantic Scapa Flow
HMAS Canbera
RAF Pacific
Task Force Australia
Royal Navy Homefleet
Royal Canadian Navy Hunt
USA Liberation
Royal Navy Fleet
The Airbases
Norway – Operation Weserubung
Mediteranian – Royal Navy
Operation Flintlock
Task Force Melbourne
Air War
Free Hunt Taranto
Free Hunt Target New York
Death Match Regia Marina
US Navy (C)
Royal Navy (C)
KriegsMarine (C)

Battleships and Carriers 2 improvements vs Battleships & Carriers 1:

New aircraft carrier combat modes:
-aircraft wings are now operational from air carriers (launch, refuel, repair)
-all air units are now airborne during multiple turns
New air carrier based aircraft units
-Dive Bomber (Carrier based – Deck)
-Torpedo Bomber (Carrier based – Deck)
-Fighter (Carrier based – Deck)
-Anti-Sub (Carrier based – Deck)
New unit types and classes:
-Submarine Group (Wolf Pack)
-Torpedo Boat Group
-Escort Destroyer
-Anti-Air (AA) Destroyer
-Escort Cruiser
-Anti-Air (AA) Cruiser
-Light (Pocket) Battleship /Panzerschiff
-Spec. Aircraft Carrier
-Air Support Aircraft Carrier
-Attack Aircraft Carrier
-Light Anti-Aircraft
-Anti-Aircraft
-Long Range Anti-Aircraft
-Heavy Anti-Aircraft
New missions, death-matches and campaigns, and few improved BC1 scenarios
New attributes for all unit types:
-Air, Surface and Anti-sub Fire Power
-Fuel capacity: affects unit movement range
New Air Base objects:
-Deploy non-carrier fighter/bomber wings around Air Bases
-Protect it with new anti-air artillery types
-Single Air Base capacity: up to 8 air wings

New unit types graphics for each of 5 major navies
Air Group movement: applies to all aircraft types
New Order of Battle panel
Improved Production panels
New tactical maps:
-USA East Coast, Britain, Great Pacific, North Atlantic, North Africa, Iceland, Norway, Mediterranean

System Requirements

Minimum:

OS:

7, 8, 10, 11

Processor:

All standard processors

Memory:

1 GB RAM

Storage:

610 MB available space

Additional Notes:

Optimized for screen resolutions 2560×1440, 1920×1080, 1600×900, 1680×1050, 1366×768, 1360×768. Game is not optimized for Ultra-wide (UW) or Super-wide (SW) monitor/screen resolutions

Recommended:

OS:

7, 8, 10, 11

Processor:

All standard processors

Memory:

2 GB RAM

Storage:

610 MB available space

Additional Notes:

Optimized for screen resolutions 2560×1440, 1920×1080, 1600×900, 1680×1050, 1366×768, 1360×768. Game is not optimized for Ultra-wide (UW) or Super-wide (SW) monitor/screen resolutions

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