Naval real-time tactics · in development
Two carrier groups, one ocean, and a sensor duel that only ends one way. Find them before they find you, put a coordinated salvo on the deck, and survive the answer — with the missiles you have left.
01 The loop
There is no economy to boom and no base to build. There is a strike group, an ocean, and an enemy commander doing the same math you are.
Nothing on the plot is ground truth. Radar returns, ESM bearings and scout reports fuse into tracks with confidence, age and error — and lighting your own radar to sharpen the picture hands the enemy a bearing on you for free. Most of the game is played dark, listening.
Strikes are scheduled, not spammed. Package Hornets behind jamming, set ingress axes, and time-on-target the launch so ship and air missiles arrive as a single saturating wave. Magazines are finite: every Harpoon that flies today is one you do not have tomorrow.
When the vampires come back the other way, you get a softkill window for chaff and decoys, a SAM ladder, and a CIWS for the last two kilometers. Winchester is a real word here. So is leaker.
02 Terminal defense
A six-missile salvo against the demo strike group, captured live from one engagement. Interceptors chase real seeker logic — when a defense fails, the combat log can tell you exactly why.
Some engagements end with INTERCEPT ×6 in the log. This was not one of those engagements.
03 The water
Reefs, lagoons and choke points break the open-ocean math. Islands mask radar, ports repair and rearm, the airfield extends your air wing's reach, and radar outposts change what the water around them means.
World art is mid-overhaul — reef bathymetry and island shading are current build, unit models are still placeholders. The fog-of-war shroud was lifted for these three captures.
04 Force design
A points budget buys the flagship, the escorts, the air wing and every loadout on the deck. Magazines are drawn when aircraft launch and credited when they recover — so the builder is less about collecting ships and more about deciding what kind of fight you can sustain.
Presets save as doctrine: a SEAD-heavy package, a picket-line defense, an alpha-strike deck. Pick your answer before you know the question.
05 Devlog
Design notes and build reports from development — what changed, what it proved, and what is still rough. No schedule promises.
Two months of systems work in one report: a fog-of-war redesign, the island and reef overhaul, a living audio layer, smarter missile guidance, and a proper front door for the game.
The first validation target is a playable carrier duel against AI: scout, classify, strike, defend, and resolve the match through carrier kill or combat score.
The interface direction combines naval-chart logic with RTS readability: range rings, bearings, contact tracks, uncertainty areas, alerts, and fast commands.
A missile engagement should unfold through launch warning, detection, classification, defensive assignment, terminal defense, and clear hit-or-miss feedback.
The target look is realistic ships, aircraft, missiles, and ocean presentation with exaggerated UI and combat effects where readability needs it.
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