Eleven scenarios are included, all predicated on the supposition that large segments of the former Soviet Navy become engaged with various client-states in this unstable region. Starting locations are randomized for each game, so replay value is much higher than "eleven scenarios" might lead you to think. Each game is controlled from a "CIC" screen, where you can select scenarios, configure the game for two-person or E-mail play, and consult the Tactical Reference Monitor, a handy Janes-Fighting-Ships guide that shows a crisp picture of every ship or plane in the game, along with their real-life vital statistics and their ratings in terms of the simulation.
Overall battle management is conducted from a strategic map based on satellite reconnaissance data. You can display all known sightings, by type, and vector recon flights to the various tactical zones displayed. Tactical action is fought out on richly detailed operational displays, whose hex-grids can be toggled on and off. Each hex represents 50 miles, and the air, sub, and surface unit icons look exactly like their board-game counterparts.
Movement is simple. You just click on the unit you want to maneuver and drag the mouse to the destination hex.
Animated missiles, aircraft, and explosions add a bit of graphic zip to the combat routines, after which a score screen appears telling you how many of your SSNs hit or missed. Victory points are awarded for sinkings though not, rather curiously, for damage inflicted and for convoys brought safely to their objectives.
But the more I played, the more I came to respect the way it subsumes an enormous amount of data into such a playable engine, and then slowly reveals the subtleties implicit in that database through the growing experience of the individual player. Certainly the best way to play 5th Fleet is against a human opponent, either in the flesh or by E-mail, but the computer AI fights a very competent battle.
If you can survive his onslaught with sufficient units intact, you can probably slaughter him with counterattacks, because he will have burned up most of his magazines. This handsome, engrossing PC version will certainly satisfy the many fans 5th Fleet has gained as a board game.
You can also delete the existing saved game file for the scenario when you receive this prompt. When you start a saved game the program ignores any player assignment, AI, and WEAX settings that existed on the scenario selection screen and loads them from the. The PBEM rules in the printed 5th Fleet manual employ an outdated method of direct modem-to-modem connection. See how to play 5th Fleet via email in the online rules manual.
The built in AI is extremely easy to defeat, even at its most aggressive settings. In fact this was a common criticism of the program in the initial reviews. Here's my take on it:. Having said this, an interesting solitaire method is to play a game using the 2-player "hot seat" setting. This is like playing solitaire with a board game, but with hidden movement, there is a level of uncertainty about opposing units as you switch between sides. To install the scenarios: in DOSBOX, navigate to the directory containing the unzipped scenario files and type install.
Fourteen new scenarios will appear on the list in the Scenario screen the next time you start 5th Fleet. Top of Page. Comparisons to the board game 5th Fleet PC should be seen as the next evolutionary step in the Fleet Series of five board games published by Victory Games.
According to Joseph Balkoski , the designer of the Fleet series: There is a computer version of 5th Fleet that uses an updated game system, the most important change of which is a near-total lack of intelligence about enemy movements unless detection occurs. Mike said: Anyone expecting a direct port of the board game to the computer is going to be pleasantly surprised.
Here is an example of an install in Ubuntu Linux. Install the scenario module after the patched program is working OK. Top of Page Getting it to run When 5th Fleet first came out it used every bit of memory available to PC's of that time. Top of Page Saving Games There can be one saved game file for each scenario, so each time you click the Save button any existing save file for that scenario gets over-written.
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