I suspect at this point that it is no real secret that I took a German adventure recently. My oft mentioned friend, Ed, lives out there as part of his term of service with the Air Force. Coincidentally, based off of our talking about it in the Doom episode, Ed bought Age of Booty for the PS3.
While it was not quite what I expected, it certainly meets a lot of my requirements for a fun RTS without micromanagement. Between coordinating with other players and dodging enemy ships in our now dubbed "Trained Monkey Survival Mode," the game was a blast. There also exists a large pile of downloadable maps, which lends some more variety to what is otherwise a simple game.
Basically, you have firepower, speed, and armor. They all do what you expect, except that additional cannons, and to some extent, armor, slow your ship down. Generally, our strategy was to have Ed max out his cannons while I wandered about with my weakly little ship collecting more resources for further upgrades. We couldn't find any online matches at the time, which was sad, but it was rather a lot of fun, both cooperatively and competitively.
Coincidentally, the developers are planning a new expansion-esque thing for this game that includes support for the Android OS. With this, they are promising cross-platform compatibility. I could not be more pleased. If you're feeling like some pirate action, it's $5 on Steam at the time of writing. Go pillage some villages!
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