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Battle of Aircraft Carrier – Strategy Game Review
Battle of Aircraft Carrier is a Strategy/Simulation game from Hitoshi Yasui, first launched in 17th April 2017.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 32+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Battle of Aircraft Carrier Stand Out
“AIRCRAFT CARRIER BATTLE 1942” is a Real-Time Simulated Strategy Game of the naval battle of aircraft carriers in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States.
The aircraft carrier task force was a quite new war potential. Although its offensive power was extremely high, the defensive ability was poor.
Since no one knew how to utilize this war potential at that time, there might be
various possibilities in the short term.
As a commander of the air craft carrier task force, make strategic decisions and lead your task force to the victory.
In this game, you will play the following important roles in the every layer.
1) Commander of aircraft carrier task force – Make a Decision
2) Captain of aircraft carrier – Maneuver your aircraft carrier
3) Pilot of Search Plane – Search Enemy’s aircraft task force
4) Leader of Torpedo Attack Group – Attack enemy aircraft by torpedoes
5) Leader of Bomber Attack Group – Attack enemy aircraft by dive bombs
6) Leader of Intercept Fighter Group – Intercept enemy attack group
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Features
1) Every event is realized in the Real-Time simulation.
2) Player plays important roles in every layer.
3) There are many functions for shorten game time.
4) Tutorial Battle is avairable. -
Major Events in Aircraft Carrier Battle
1) The day before the battle
2) Search Enemy Fleet
3) Launch Attack Group
4) Wait Event
5) Enemy Search Plane Finds Your Fleet
6) Attack the Enemy Fleet
7) Enemy Attack Group arrives at our fleet area
8) Enemy Attack Group attacks our fleet
9) End of 1st Attack
10) Decision to 2nd Attack
11) End of Battle -
Major changes
For making this game more interesting, following items are modified from the real feature.
1) New aircraft carrier can be revived easily.
2) Aircraft on aircraft carrier is always fully carried when the carrier joins the battle.
3) New technologies like Rader, VT-fuse, Break-Code, etc, are not introduced.
4) The difference of the ability such as carriers, aircrafts, etc is not considered.
- Conclusion
We believe that the real aircraft carrier battle is realized in this application.
We would appreciate it if you would enjoy this game.
Null City Realtime Simulations
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Battle of Aircraft Carrier is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th April 2018
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
As many users mentioned, we believe that this is the most realistic real-time simulation game of the naval battle of aircraft carriers in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Based on feedbacks from user around the world, we enhanced this application as Version 1.5. Please enjoy this new version.
- New features
(1) EASY BATTLE MODE (5 MINUTES AIRCRAFT CARRIER BATTLE)
This is a battle mode that players can easily experience the aircraft carrier battle In this mode,
In the battle of two regular aircraft carriers that are the same as the battlefield of the Coral Sea, the player must sink down the enemy aircraft carrier within the limited battle time as the captain of the attacking unit arriving above the enemy fleet.
As a leader of torpedo attack group or a leader of bomber attack group, you must destroy enemy aircraft carriers in a few minutes.
Since this mode is completely independent from other battle warfare modes, there is no consumption of gold, loss of ship, etc.
Enjoy this mode as a easy battle experience.
(2) Interception by fleet escort fighter plane
As the leader pilot of a fleet escort fighter, you can shoot down enemy attack units by manual operation. By quickly discovering enemy attack units approaching over the fleet and shooting down as many attack units as possible, it is possible to lower the risk of the fleet.
In connection with this function, we added two items that can be earned by watching advertisement video.
1: Anti-aircraft radar for fleet defense:
You will be able to discover enemy attack unit positions early.2: Unlimited machine gun bullet number of escort fighter aircraft
By effectively utilizing these functions, you can even annihilate enemy attack
units. Please protect your important aircraft carrier.
(3) Manual operation of the anti-aircraft machine-gun of aircraft carrier
We have made it possible for you to manually fire shot machine-guns located in four positions; in front of the aircraft carrier, in front of the starboard, behind the port, and behind the starboard.
In addition, view control from the bridge was also made possible.
Although it is a bit difficult, it is possible to shoot down several machines.
Please give me the final defense of an important aircraft carrier.
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Conclusion
With this function enhancement, we think that the important role of each layer in the naval battle between the aircraft carrier units can be realized as real-time simulation in the application.
Please keep trying to annihilate the aircraft carrier of enemy troops while protecting your important aircraft carriers anyhow.
Download & Availability
Battle of Aircraft Carrier is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Battle of Aircraft Carrier on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We love this game its amazing but is this game still being cared about as it hasnt had a update in 5 years and if you do read this then we have a suggestion the first one is instead of the ranger it should be the wasp as its more accurate, besides that is the game still being updated as it could be so much better if the ship classes all got their own models.
Cant red button power ups, why? Fix this.
Impossible to protect carrier unless you attack faster then they can spot you which is hard to do so make A) aiming Fighters better B) make guns more accurate C) aiming AA better D) planes attack other targets.
Why cant a player use bomber and torpedo aircraft at the same time, like real life.
So if you read this dev/ devs ( not sarcastically sorry for the inconvenience). The game is great good graphics for mobile and real game play reminds us of the 1978 mod way. Wait does this game have it that would be fun messing it up with Japan winning. Now with some ideas and bugs. One thing is auto abortion when leaving the game make it a battle save like that magic M rated Xbox game we know nothing about. A thing we would like a lot we mean a lot is were it tells you were the enemy attack comes from. Because they auto know. Also the merger bug that is some what rare we were on a intersection mission. And our squad stopped moving the sound affects were working the engine was running we were not moving. We looked at the enemy squad and they were not moving the ships were not. Also when the auto search happens it does not tell us which zone of field. The zone always happens the field is common but some times shows. Over all good game but on AA cannon can we have another cannon fire. Not the AAA ai but another AA ai to increase kills. Thanks for reading.
Only complaints are that when you pretty much always have to be the Japanese and when the enemy begins their attack runs you are automatically moved to the carrier from you interceptor squadron. Other than that a great game.
Being a WW2 FANATIC,we thought u could choose your side and attack the other.ITS ALOMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO BE THE AMERICANS.PLEASE FIX THIS GLITCH OR BUG,AND we WILL LOVE THIS GAME.
The game has god awful god awful tutorials Im a seasoned gamer if after 3 days Im still tries to figure something out we delete and onto the next sorry.
Literally wont show any buttons that you need to use to play. Cant report ships and cant even find the options menu to maybe shamble that.
Unable to play on iPhone iOS. Because as soon as game loads up to screen gets oversized so Im unable to access any of the controls on screen. But we will say we love all the other game makers platforms (Battleship, Submarine, etc…), just not this one. Yet.
The tutorial was awful and when we selected the United States Navy carriers, we would be automatically switched to the Japanese carriers.
Good bet the search is pretty hard because cant take down all the targets pls make a little bit easier to search.
We are utterly speechless about this app. It has been several years since we could find a free "aircraft carrier simulation" game. Although this does not accurately "simulate" aircraft carriers, this one has not disappointed us. We would, however, suggest more action; like if you shoot down enemy attacking aircraft yourself, or handle an AAA gun. That would be tremendous. Thank you for your efforts. P.S. -if you can, correct the spelling errors.
This is probably one of the best and most realistic open naval battle apps available. Great graphics and variety of actions: locating enemy shipping, attacking shipping; dive bomb or torpedo, recovering flight, defending shipping,…etc.) An easy 4-5 stars but with One Accommodation ! ! ! PLEASE MAKE IT EASIER TO LOCATE ENEMY SO BATTLE/EXCHANGE CAN EVEN HAPPEN, in the first place.
We are finally giving up on this game. The tutorial is hard to follow. We have aborted all missions because we could not find the targets. Plus even though we are an American pilot everyone on the line pilots chatter is in Japanese. We suspect they give us clues to look for the other aircraft carriers but we dont understand the language.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5
- Size: 219.82 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: Hitoshi Yasui
Last updated: 15th April 2018 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: Hitoshi Yasui