Rule the Waves 3 Expanded Battles

Rule the Waves 3 Expanded Battles adds ways to create and fight naval engagements to the single-player game Rule the Waves 3. You can jump into a short battle, play premade historical and hypothetical scenarios, or build your own fleets and engagements across naval history from 1890 to 1970.

Quick battles

The Quick Battles system generates engagements for you to play. Choose the belligerent nations, battle size and type, weather, location and technology levels. You can set fleets at similar technological levels for a balanced skirmish or create a hypothetical matchup between forces from very different periods. Battles can range from small skirmishes to full fleet engagements, and you can design the fleet yourself, leave it to the AI or combine both approaches. The battle location can be anywhere on the globe, with its geography affecting the engagement.

Historical scenarios

The expansion includes six historical scenarios and two hypothetical ones:

• Battle of the Yellow Sea (1904): The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts to prevent Russian naval forces in the Far East from unifying during the Russo-Japanese War.
• Battle of Dogger Bank (1915): The British Navy intercepts a German raiding force of heavy battlecruisers.
• Battle of the Denmark Strait (1941): The Royal Navy’s interception squadron, led by HMS Hood, engages the Kriegsmarine battleship Bismarck as it attempts to raid Allied merchant shipping in the Atlantic.
• Operation Rheinubung (1941): The battleship Bismarck and cruiser Prinz Eugen try to evade Royal Navy pickets and scouts and enter the Atlantic to threaten supply efforts to the British Isles.
• Operation Rheinubung Hypothetical (1941): An expanded version gives additional forces to both sides, including the operational battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau based at Brest and additional elements of Force H coming from Gibraltar.
• Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (1942): An Imperial Japanese Navy task force tries to support an effort to drive US forces from Guadalcanal as the US Navy sends reinforcements to its embattled troops.
• Battle of the Eastern Solomons (1942): A US carrier task force moves to intercept a major Japanese reinforcement force heading for Guadalcanal.
• Hypothetical Battle in the Mediterranean during the Cold War (1970): Soviet and NATO navies vie for control of the Mediterranean.

Editors and custom battles

The ship designer lets you create fleets ranging from corvettes and destroyers to battleships and aircraft carriers. You can save designs and share them with the community, set ship technology to suit your design, and provide aircraft data for historical or fictional aircraft in scenarios.

The scenario editor supports historical or hypothetical engagements across 20th-century naval history. You can set each side’s doctrine, experience and ammunition types, and lay out waypoints and multiple routes for the AI opponent. Scenarios and ship designs can be shared with the community.