The Grandest Fleet is a turn-based naval tactics game that was released by Quantum Quality Productions

Quantum Quality Productions

Quantum Quality Productions was a computer games company specializing in strategy games and war games.Run by Bruce Williams Zaccagnino and Mark Baldwin it produced a number of games that achieved "cult status", most prominently The Perfect General.In 1994, due to financial difficulties, QQP...

 in 1993.

Gameplay

The Grandest Fleet’s primary emphasis is on turn based combat between two opposing forces. Players also need to control and build up coastal cities to increase income, obtain ship building capabilities, and earn victory points.

The game features a random map

Random map

In gaming, a random map is a map generated randomly by the computer, usually in strategy games. Random maps are often the core of single and multiplayer gameplay, aside from story based campaigns that are often shipped with the game. Each new game presents an unknown map, providing a new experience...

 generator as well as numerous modern historical, fictional, and what-if naval battles from World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 to the fall of the Soviet Union.

Players can also pursue a “career” by earning points over the course of many games. These points can be used to purchase naval and civilian ranks which allow the player to bring in a personal super aircraft carrier

Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations...

 flagship

Flagship

A flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships, reflecting the custom of its commander, characteristically a flag officer, flying a distinguishing flag...

into all games. The ability of the player’s flagship depends on his or her rank.