A dull top down view shows your ships and the enemy ships that are visible to you. Your ships can travel much faster then the British convoys so you can catch them fairly easily (convoys have to travel at the speed of their slowest ship).īattle takes place on a separate level. During the course of the game you get reports of convoy locations and you can then send your task forces in pursuit of those convoys.
Once your ships have reached the Atlantic their job is just beginning. Only then they would reach the open waters of the Atlantic. Sailing out of Kiel the Germans had slip past the British main naval base at Scapa Flow (on the North tip of Scotland) and past their patrols around Iceland. As you attempt to do so you will see just what kind of a precarious mission that was. With those limited resources you need to take on the mighty Royal Navy and sink as many ships as you can. What you are left with as the Germans is a very small amount of heavy ships and a handful of destroyers. The computers of that time had only very limited memory capacity and tough decisions had to be made. The ships the Germans captured in their conquest of Europe are also never added to your total. Many of their cruisers are nowhere in sight. The Germans especially have gotten the short end of the stick. Not even all surface ships have been included for either the British or the Germans.
Not that submarines do not have a role to play but they are handled by the computer and you are notified only of the results. The German U-boats are uncontrollable in the game and that is pity. GNB-NA focuses solely on the big surface ships in the war. Luckily for us most of the most mundane tasks in GNB-NA can be left to the computer (like the aiming of those guns). You control one of the fleets in all its facets, from the grand strategy down to the aiming and firing of the guns.
Great Naval Battles of the North Atlantic (GNB-NA) is set during World War II and covers the convoy engagements between the surface fleets of the British Royal Navy and the German Kreigsmarine.
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