Airships: Conquer the Skies

10/10 bigger cannon better
also dont just armour the front of your ship they can shoot anywere in a ship so just armour the important stuff not jut the front as thye dont have to go through the front to shoot at your ammo

A desperate war between a mercenary company and a death cult. The discovery of what man can do to another for ideology and fickle politics. The pointlessness of the suffering. Conquerors of a land that has become a graveyard, devoid of resources and beauty. War is hell, and the funny airships game has opened my eyes to the absurd horror of it all.

This game is really fun and not overly complicated like some other games in this style (looking at you From The Depths.) I was very sad to see that in app purchases were getting put in, i was then very happy it was an april fools joke!

I like this game because you can make cool and normal looking airships, but you can also make the horrors.

Strikes the right balance between maneuvering in combat, shipbuilding, and strategy. Some systems are a bit simplistic (e.g., income buildings) and in my personal opinion there are some areas that can use some additional balancing, but in every other respect it is a very enjoyable, fast paced, relatively short strategy game, despite straddling several genres known for being very unapproachable.

Airships: Conquer the Skies is great for a number of reasons:

1. The shipbuilding and design part of the game is very intuitive and well done, with many possible ship designs ranging from little fighters to gigantic flagships spewing rockets and bullets. The ships you use for each play through usually have to be designed for each situation due to rapid changes in resource availability and new research into better ways to kill people, with everything from just dropping rocks to cannons the size of a small apartment to steampunk laser beams , you will always be finding new weapons and other tools to redesign your ships around. This is great because the ship building is arguably the best part of the game and most everything in game revolves around it.

2. The combat is very engaging with fights not being determined by who has the best ship and fleet make-up but also tactics play an important role. you can't just build a giant stack of gigantic city dwarfing destroyers and march them right up to the biggest defensive building on the map, because that's how you get ripped apart by flack cannons. for every fight you have to consider how to best maneuver you ships so all of your weapons can hit them and few of theirs can hit you. beyond staying out of range of enemy fire, you can also command your ships recourse use to an extent, choosing to conserve or quickly rush through ammo depending on the situation. both of these considerations in tactics are amplified by random weather effects and the occasional monster fight, which challenges you to think differently about how you fight, sometimes even requiring a small fleet built just to clear one giant nest in a few of the more end game monster infestations cough cough moon disk cough so the fights never get old because there is no one strategy you can use to triumph over every situation. This is probably further expanded on by the DLC, but I don't have it (yet) so I cant speak on it, but just know you do not need it for the fights to be very varied and fun.

3. The style and art in this game is amazing, and the game does a great job taking advantage of the simplicity of pixel art while also making every bit of the environment, ship, and character design feel detailed and in line with that 1800-1900s brand imperialism, especially with the little details like the sea monsters and blemmyes on the campaign map. The monster design is also great with some of them literally towering over head making all but the biggest of ships look like mere ants in their wake.

the biggest problem I have ever had with the game is during end game fight where some of the AI decide to just spam rifles on their defenses, which can in very very large numbers start to make the game slow down, bu I have never had any problems with crashes and it mostly only slowed down in 3x speed.
Overall, great game, very empire, would recommend.

Great game. I wish more people were playing multiplayer, particularly in cooperative mode. But it is pretty fun in singleplayer. Campaign is seriously addictive.
There is a lot of depth here to discover as you progress through the ages, many different events that actually lead to battles, and when you do get to those real-time battles, your tactics can make a huge difference.
I found the building UI to be a bit tough. I couldn't find more than like one or two hot keys, so it took a long time to build even simple stuff without decorations. But it does feel good to design something new that you felt your fleet was lacking, and watch it perform even better than you expected once you take it to battle.
I also could not figure out where to launch expeditions during the age of exploration or send out trading caravans during the age of commerce. I checked the manual and googled around but did not find anything yet.
This game doesn't hold your hand at all, the initial tutorials do help but a lot of the satisfaction here will come out of figuring it out all on your own.
Full recommendation from me. This is another indie gem which is criminally cheap and occupies a unique space. I hope it gets a sequel because I really want to experience this in multiplayer.