JTS Naval series online play

[grognardgames]

Last night Stejones82 and I played a demonstration game of Wolfpack on the Live Fire! server, and streamed it live from both sides. It was a fun game that lasted about 90 minutes and highlighted how as you might expect, playing against a human is very different to playing against the AI and is definitely the most satisfying way of playing the Tiller Naval series.

Streaming it Live from both sides was interesting, the spectators were able to switch from screen to screen to see the game from both the German and the Allied side whilst neither of the combatants lost the fog of war. We plan to set up a game of Guadalcanal in the near future and I would certainly like to try Jutland with a couple of players on each side. 

I will post here when we are looking for volunteers and offering invitations to spectate.

For anyone unfamiliar with setting up JTS games for online play, or with using Discord, we have an extensive help file on the server and often have people online who can offer some practical advice and assistance.

Don't forget that we knocked out an SB game before your naval battle.  It was THAT easy. :)

It was fun watching your game but the most fun was listening to the under-the-breath cursing as you both try to find each other and avoid torpedos, lol.  Reminded me of my games!

I will attest that live play is surely something worth looking into.  We all know the AI is only good for learning mechanics, so when you put a human in the seat and go H2H it's something else entirely.  Watching your units rout in real-time is more fun than not...

Although I am not a naval gamer, I was curious to see how the game plays and it was enjoyable switching up and seeing both perspectives with FoW enabled.  

Highly recommend this method!