https://youtu.be/jal2Ttv-T2A

• Ship combat is easy, accessible, and stresses fun over realism but still keeps the realistic feel alive. Combat is fast paced and rewards daring maneuvers.
  
• Extremely unique ships with crazy weapons such as drills, catapults and boat rams makes each time you fight a new ship a new experience. Higher end ships are NOT just stronger copies of the smaller ships.
  
• Warhammer universe inherently gives the game a lot of potential lore to work off of.
  
• Easy to understand trade system takes the pain out trading while still allowing more advanced players the option to profit greatly if they are smart about which city needs what resource.

• Only Orcs and Humans are currently in the game as well as the map being limited to the first few cities resulting in only a few hours of content being currently available.
  
• Sailing is long and boring, even with a 2x time speed up it takes a bit too long to get anywhere especially when you have to run back and forth during quests.
  
• There is severe graphical hitching when loading in new ships or cities. Framerate also is very inconsistent even on my GTX 970.
  
• Quests need balancing, as many of the longer quests give you extremely low amounts of gold in relation to how much work you do.

As someone who hated Naval Action for having long drawn out boring battles Man O’ War really hits the spot for me by providing fast paced, fun ship vs ship combat. Ship combat and control is simplified with you only needing to worry about the range of your shots and the direction of the wind, giving the game a more casual (but still deep) gameplay feel. The biggest problem with the game is that there is only a tiny bit of content available; you are restricted to only exploring around 1/10th of the map and interacting with only 4 factions which you will quickly run out of things to do with. While I don’t think this game is currently worth the price tag, I do think it is a game that will eventually grow into one of the best naval combat games available as it progresses through early access. Game key aquired from developer for free for review purposes.

[h1]FULL VIDEO REVIEW:[/h1] https://youtu.be/jal2Ttv-T2A [h1]PROS:[/h1] [list] [*]Ship combat is easy, accessible, and stresses fun over realism but still keeps the realistic feel alive. Combat is fast paced and rewards daring maneuvers. [*]Extremely unique ships with crazy weapons such as drills, catapults and boat rams makes each time you fight a new ship a new experience. Higher end ships are NOT just stronger copies of the smaller ships. [*]Warhammer universe inherently gives the game a lot of potential lore to work off of. [*]Easy to understand trade system takes the pain out trading while still allowing more advanced players the option to profit greatly if they are smart about which city needs what resource. [/list] [h1]CONS:[/h1] [list] [*]Only Orcs and Humans are currently in the game as well as the map being limited to the first few cities resulting in only a few hours of content being currently available. [*]Sailing is long and boring, even with a 2x time speed up it takes a bit too long to get anywhere especially when you have to run back and forth during quests. [*] There is severe graphical hitching when loading in new ships or cities. Framerate also is very inconsistent even on my GTX 970. [*]Quests need balancing, as many of the longer quests give you extremely low amounts of gold in relation to how much work you do. [/list] [h1]SUMMARY:[/h1] As someone who hated Naval Action for having long drawn out boring battles Man O’ War really hits the spot for me by providing fast paced, fun ship vs ship combat. Ship combat and control is simplified with you only needing to worry about the range of your shots and the direction of the wind, giving the game a more casual (but still deep) gameplay feel. The biggest problem with the game is that there is only a tiny bit of content available; you are restricted to only exploring around 1/10th of the map and interacting with only 4 factions which you will quickly run out of things to do with. While I don’t think this game is currently worth the price tag, I do think it is a game that will eventually grow into one of the best naval combat games available as it progresses through early access. Game key aquired from developer for free for review purposes.