WitP/AE now on SALE

[Currahee]

The game has decent graphics for a strategy game, but it's not what you'd call "highly visual". For ships, and aircraft, you see smoke/fire during the animations; in the case of ships, it's somewhat more detailed, with several levels of smoke/fire; and a graphic "sinking" when she goes down. And a satisfying "crunch" & explosion when torpedos & bombs hit. But once the animation phase is over (assuming you turn animations "on", which I like to do), the game "counters" are Task Forces (TF's), not individual ships, and you have to access the TF screen to check ship damage. When you access a particular ship there's a small "pictograph" showing the ship, and smoking if it's damaged 10% or more, but for real info on the actual damage, you have to look at the ship data screen, and check out the individual guns/systems. Damage can be rather specific; it may be to the powerplant, and affect speed; or specific guns or turrets, launch tubes, etc may be knocked out. Some systems and larger caliber guns can only be repaired at larger ports, or in shipyards. Damage control & firefighting can be affected by damage. Some simple repairs, primarily controlling flooding and fire, may be accomplished underway, but generally you'll split off the badly damaged ships, and head them for the nearest port, to control fire and flooding; and once that's done, on to a bigger port, to fix the structural (flotation) and system damage.

I've not looked for screenshots other than on the Matrix site.