“The Weather Gage” is a single player naval simulation set during the Age of Sail, Horatio Nelson and Napoleon. The player follows a career as navy officer and commands a single sailing warship to capture or destroy warships and merchants of enemy countries. 

• Realistic physically based  sailing, simulating real forces of sails, hull, rudder, anchor, boats, ...

• 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

• NPC 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) or  false flags

• Coastline based on real world data, including sea depth, with ports & fortifications modelled according to historical data on their real positions

The simulation is based on the historic events between 1793 & 1815 (French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars​, War of 1812) and has a great focus on historical authenticity & single ship actions (frigates or smaller ships). ​
It draws inspiration from naval history (characters such as Thomas Cochrane) and fiction (Aubrey Maturin novels, “Hornblower” or “Master & Commander”).