[@Moon South Gambit Expansion]

Yes. The contracts have been signed, and we are preparing the website and announcements right now.

Well that's good news. Any chance of the mission editor showing up in this release ?

[save file for the game missions?]

I've left it installed, but I'm twiddling my thumbs until the MEd expansion and (oh please) the mission builder.

[ridiculously hard?]

Very few S-Boats, or any MTB, were actually sunk in combat. Plenty went home with lots of holes in them, but plywood boats turned out to be amazingly resilient to light weapons.

[Radar/control panel]

A big welcome to the nice guy from Akella.

[Can't Steer anymore!! no <A or D>]

At a guess, you're in 3D Tactics mode, not 3D sim. Hit 'enter' again.

[ridiculously hard?]

Take command of the destroyer and park her next to the U Boat. You'll get a "mooring..." message, just wait and you'll load the surviving crew.

[Earth to buzz, come in buzz?]

Can't say as I blame Joe, not one bit.

[How realistic is this game?]

It's harder than you'd think to hit a fast 70' boat with a light autocannon from another boat also running at high speed. Reading accounts from boat captains its amazing how often several guns would light up a boat, fill it fill of holes and not hit anybody. Or how quickly things can go horribly wrong if some gunner does get a bead on your boat.

I just wish they'd gone up to BC-sized ships, then we could recreate the Channel Dash event.

[How realistic is this game?]

it doesn't look to be that hardcore, but since you can control units up to cruiser size I'd say it's the closest on the market.

[Problem with the demo benchmark]

English can be a real mother of a language.

[DevBlog Issues]

I'm in for a pre-order too. I also just put in a sizable order for Finnish and Russian boats from PT Dockyard. It's an MGB winter for me.

[DevBlog Issues]

And let's not forget http://www.ptdockyard.com (disclaimer: satisfied customer) purveyor of fine 1/600 scale resin models, a quickplay set of rules and collector of photographs. Dave has an excellent selection of Russian MTBs.

[Earth to buzz, come in buzz?]

I'm pretty sure I've heard that the damage modeling is hit-point based. That's a shame if true. I'm hoping for better from either Battlefront or the mod community.

[When were PT Boats *that* important?]

Hmm, I'd have to take issue with that. Lets see there was Ark Royal, Wasp, Shokaku and Taiho that come right to mind...

Kevin

The Saratoga was hit twice, and was out of action for about a year total.

[Long time no see]

anyways, i gona follow this one but i dont think i will find anything here for me. i got my naval fix with jutland game and i am more than happy with it.

but im couriouse about one thing...are WW2 torpedo boats that "advanced" that you can make a sim around it wich is interessting? the WW1 TB´s i play with are suicide nutshells

The WW2 "torpedo boats" aren't same thing at all as the WW1 vintage TBs aren't. This game is about the small (70-110 feet), plywood, internal-combustion driven torpedo boats, not the very small traditional warships that destroyers were built to keep away from the capital ships. The classic TBs were still around in WW2, but really only the Germans and Italians used them.

I'd say there's enough sim value in PT Boats to be worth a major effort. An 80' PT boat is bristling with guns, goes 40+ knots flat out, has torpedoes and has no defenses other than sneakiness, speed or smoke. They fought all over the world and took the fight to the enemy every night. Count yourself lucky Akella didn't decide to copy the engine management from a flight sim and make you spin dials down in the engine room.