Jutland: The Long Afternoon

Turn-based strategy for browser and Windows, $4.99

Lose the war in an afternoon. Or don’t.

Take command of the British Grand Fleet or the German High Seas Fleet and fight the largest naval battle of the First World War, turn by turn, under real fog of war.

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You never see the board

You see what your wireless operators intercept and what your scouts claim to have seen, and you commit on that. Acting on it anyway is the game.

The Jutland command screen: a hexagonal North Sea plot with British and German contacts beside the wireless log and fleet orders. — The command plot, wireless log and orders: the picture you have to act on.

What you do

Give the orders: Course, speed and engagement for a full battle line, committed before you know what you’re steaming into.
Read the signals: Reports arrive incomplete, late, and sometimes wrong. You decide which ones to believe.
Face the debrief: After the action the fog lifts, and the replay lays the true positions over the picture you were working from.

From briefing to debrief

Jutland’s title screen on a parchment chart, with British and German naval flags and fleets at sea. — 31 May 1916, before the action begins.

The North Sea briefing in German, setting out British and German objectives over a chart table. — The North Sea briefing, in German.

The British Grand Fleet briefing with Admiralty objectives and a flag-officer panel showing Sir David Beatty. — The Grand Fleet’s orders and flag officers.

The British debrief lists losses, strategic consequences, reported versus actual positions and a turn-by-turn replay. — The debrief: what you saw and what actually happened.

The soundtrack

Slow dread on gray water, broken by the shock of the guns. I wrote it alongside the campaign it plays under.

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