Rule the Waves 3 News

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We have just had our second ship design contest, and we had some really top notch designs. While not everyone could be a winner we are really encouraged by how strong the community response is every time we run one of these. Check out the full article on the Matrix Site.

The winners submission are posted below for your perusing.

DasTactic's Picks

Light Cruiser
Heavy Cruiser
Honorable Mention
Liam's Picks
Light Cruiser
Heavy Cruiser
Honorable Mention
Tortuga's Picks
Light Cruiser
Heavy Cruiser
Honorable Mention

As mentioned at the start of the stream, we are also happy to announce that an update is in the works for RTW3. Many of you will already be aware of the public beta available on the forums and Steam. We are confident that this beta will be pushed as a full update by the end of February. With updates to the ship saving system and the strategic layer, it's going to be another great addition to RTW3.

With the launch of Dreadnought and Invincible the race for naval supremacy intensified. Ships ballooned in size, cost, speed, and armament. From 1906-1914 the navies of the world built a combined 63 Dreadnought Battleships in a naval arms race that helped bring about the First World War. Submarines made their debut as a practical weapon of war, and destroyers grew in size and displacement with multiple torpedo launchers. After the war the cost of these fleets was so ruinous a new innovation in international diplomacy was adopted to curb spending, the Washington Naval Treaty.

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Special thanks to Drachinifel for lending his voice to this project.

You can expect Episode 3 out in March.

*The start time of the winners livestream has been delayed a half hour and is now 12:30 PM EST

Hello everyone, we are happy to announce that we got a ton of great submissions from the community, just like with the first contest it was a very strong showing.

Submissions are now closed and all of the designs have been forwarded to the judges. They are now getting to work going through your ships to pick out their favorites and choose our six winners for our second design contest.

Our livetsream where we announce the results of the contest will be Thursday, February 22nd, at 6PM CEST/12:00 PM EST hosted on the Slitherine twitch channel.

Thanks for participating and I hope to see many of you in chat next Thursday!

Hello Admirals, Commodores, Captains, and every other kind of Master and Commander.

We are launching the second ship design contest for Rule the Waves 3.

Every person entering the contest and making a valid submission will receive a Matrix store voucher worth 15 USD. The contests winners will also receive a voucher worth 30 dollars. For those of you who were in the previous contest, we have made some minor revisions to the rules.

Contest Rules: Submit a picture of your ship with both its guns page and additional armaments page.




In addition to the images, give us a very short story why the ship is designed the way it is or it's battle history. This can be humorous, knowledgeable, or simply an entertaining yarn about your ship. We are not imposing a character limit this time but please keep it brief for the sake of our judges. You may submit in both categories but you can only be picked as a winner in one of them. Variant technology submissions are also acceptable.

Please only submit a ship designed in an unmodded version of the game.
Category 1 - Light Cruisers, any period and any configuration. If it is a legal design and says CL it will be sent to the judges for consideration. This is a very broad category and we are excited to see ship designs run the gamut from the Town-Class to the Bremen. Protected Cruisers do count as CL, and are accepted designs.

Category 2 - Heavy Cruisers, any period and any configuration. Same rules as the Light Cruisers, if it says CA and is a legal design, we will accept it for judging.

Players should submit their designs to [email protected]
Now for our community judges, we are proud to announce they are:

DasTactic: If you ever needed a tutorial on how to play a Matrix game, DasTactic has probably done a video on it. From Distant Worlds to Shadow Empire Das's videos are a familiar sight in our wargaming community. This is Das's second round as a judge.

Drachinifel: Creator of the best naval guides out there. If you ever had even the slightest interest in a topic about warships, Drachinifel has you covered. From triple expansion boilers to the war galleys of antiquity, he has made a video on it. This is also Drach's second round as a judge.

Tortuga: Probably one of the best regular RTW3 Youtubers, Tortuga currently has a marathon 1890's Germany playthrough that is 55 episodes deep and growing. This is his first time as a judge.

Scores and winners are up to the judges, we aren't putting in any hard quantitative rules regarding what a ship is graded on, so expect some subjectivity. With that being said we have some very clever and knowledgable judges who will be looking for solid design work.

With a judge selecting a winner for each category, we will have six victorious designs. The winners will have their ships and stories broadcast when we announce the contest results with the judges on our livestream! The date and time of this stream will be announced when submissions close.

Submissions close February 12th, good luck and happy designing.

While technology has always played a role in shaping the military, naval warfare in the early 20th century was defined by rapid innovation that saw whole generations of ships made obsolete only a few years after they were completed. The Ironclad gave way to the Battleship, and the Battleship to the Dreadnought. Here we are covering the big innovations that drove the changing face of naval warfare in the 20th century in our new historical video series.

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Special thanks to Drachinifel for lending his voice to this project.

You can expect Episode 2 out February, next month.