It's a completely Niche game for a specific kind of person. If you watch Drachenfel, History of Everything, or Perun, you will enjoy this game. If you do not know who they are, you will not. (However if you are attracted to this game and do not know who they are, look them up.)

The game is one step up from playing an Excel spreadsheet.

Things are a bit obtuse and the AI control of battles could do with a lot of work, and Auto-resolve would be appreciated.

Buuuuut, it's a very specific niche game that fits an itch that I didn't know I had, and once you get past some of the rather obtuse logic involved in the game, it just turns into something fantastic. Things will click into place more each time you play, understanding combat Divisions, ship design, changes that come from Radar, Aircraft and Missiles. Each time you master a new facet and the game just changes completely, you'll restart and find even more enjoyment from it. Also because you lost two wars and 7 Supercarriers to the French because you didn't understand how the hell Air Recon worked.

Hmm, yes ill spend a hour or two seal clubbing the austro-Hungarian empire


wait why has 10 hours passed and my dreadnoughts are being bombarded by missiles?

The answer to the question, what if Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts had Windows 95 graphics but had competent game design in every other aspect?

This game certainly has it's problems with things like AI and battle generation. But the campaign actually makes sense. Battle AI is for the most part good.

CVs work much better than in RTW 2. It can be a bit confusing along with land air bases, but overall, air combat does work better.

If you can get past the graphics, this is a superior product to UAD in every way.
It can still improve, but every update and new entry into the series makes it a bit better.