Man of War is a 1997 real-time strategic naval combat video game developed by Strategy First and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment for MS-DOS compatible operating systems and Microsoft Windows.
[2] "It was a turn-based game wherein you plotted your orders on a 2D map, then watched your turn play out in real-time 3D from the deck of a ship; while you could move about the ship and watch the action from different perspectives, you had no control during this real-time phase—you were only an observer.
"The game was developed by the small studio Strategy First (established in 1991[4]), and would become one of its flagship series.
[9][10] CD Mag felt the game took players to places they had never been before,[11] though described it as a "pretty straightforward classic wargame with a new-fangled wrapper".
[14] Man of War II was released in North America in 1999 by GT Interactive.