Age of Sail (computer game)
Encyclopedia
Age of Sail is a real-time tactics
naval combat PC
video game. The time period of the game is 1775-1820. There is a campaign to play as well as over 100 scenarios of great battles such as Trafalgar
and Camperdown
. Also included in the game is a Scenario Editor with over 2,000 historically accurate sailing ship
s.
Real-time tactics
Real-time tactics or RTT is a subgenre of tactical wargames played in real-time simulating the considerations and circumstances of operational warfare and military tactics...
naval combat PC
Personal computer
A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...
video game. The time period of the game is 1775-1820. There is a campaign to play as well as over 100 scenarios of great battles such as Trafalgar
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars ....
and Camperdown
Battle of Camperdown
The Battle of Camperdown was a major naval action fought on 11 October 1797 between a Royal Navy fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan and a Dutch Navy fleet under Vice-Admiral Jan de Winter...
. Also included in the game is a Scenario Editor with over 2,000 historically accurate sailing ship
Sailing ship
The term sailing ship is now used to refer to any large wind-powered vessel. In technical terms, a ship was a sailing vessel with a specific rig of at least three masts, square rigged on all of them, making the sailing adjective redundant. In popular usage "ship" became associated with all large...
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