The Weather Gage

“The Weather Gage” is a single player naval simulation set during the French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic Wars. The player follows a career as navy officer and commands a single sailing warship to capture or destroy warships and merchants of enemy countries. The simulation is based on the historic events between 1793 & 1815 and has a great focus on historical authenticity & single ship actions (frigates or smaller ships). 

• Physically based  sailing simulation, considering the forces on the hull (buoyancy, drag) and the wind force on the sails (the direction of the ships realtive to the wind has a big influence on the speed)
  
• Combat ship to ship and ship to fortifications with cannons or carronades using solid shot, grape shot & canister shot. Damage to the hull, sails, crew or rudder
• Crew combat from ship to ship  or boat to ship with small firearms and boarding actions with edged weapons
• AI controlled ships consider relationship to other ships, own crew morale, terrain elements & wind direction to decide their behavior. Perception from NPC ships is modelled to consider light (day/night), weather (e.g. fog), false flags or size of ships to be detected
• The coastline is based on real world data, including sea depth 

It draws inspiration from naval history (characters such as Thomas Cochrane) and fiction (Aubrey Maturin novels, “Hornblower” or “Master & Commander”). The time period is also the era of Horation Nelson & the battle of Trafalgar (but at the moment such a big battle will have to wait due to technical limitations)