It makes a change to set the clock back, here to the 16th century as
the British once more do battle with the Spanish Armada.
The screen displays a view from your ship's deck, its
cannot and outlook to sea. An enemy vessel appears and travels
across the waves. After selecting its angle and powder-load, your
cannon is fired. Sinking the enemy produces another ship
until all 10 of the British or Spanish fleet are annihilated. If
you miss the ship returns fire.
This sounds complicated but before long you are so familiar with
the angles and loads that the game becomes boring.
The game is supposed to be for one or two players. In the one-player
situation, you play the computer, which has a 50 per cent chance of
making a hit. When two people play, they take turns.
Apart from the instructions however, there is no difference between
the one- and two-player game - the display is the same and the
computer participates as before. There is little point in two
people competing, since it may be the computer that decides the
winner, not necessarily skill. Needs Extended Basic.
27th March 1984
