Yes, balsa is a good choice for scratch-building. By a 1/2" square strake for ships of the line, and a 1/2" by 3/8" for large frigates and razees. You can...
From: "spearman_uk2002" <dcharlwood@...> ... Cheap and nice small scale ships can be made from paper. Napoleonic ships are ideal for this as they are...
... What a really cool idea. Massively cool even. If you can get balsa cheap enough, you could do it using those as well. Thanks! Regards, Pat Last Played:...
... I'm not into toy ships but all of the miniatures rules are far too detailed to make Trafalgar, which you mention below, practical unless you have a lot of...
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Hi Newbie, You mentioned a nice topic here. About rules : take a look at <www.thunderingbroadsides.com> and join the yahoo discussion group. Thundering...
I noticed this on another list and forward it here. Sorry for any cross-postings: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++= Those of...
... That's what I used. At 1:2400 scale (roughly) that meant I could either play using miniatures rules or Close Action/Wooden Ships & Iron Men hexmaps. You...
... This is an absurd exaggeration. The two wargames clubs in Indianapolis, using the miniatures rules that became Wooden Ships and Iron Men, played, with...
Agreed. Heck, this past Saturday, a friend (new to Harpoon4 miniatures) and I (who had studied the rules but never really had played the game) got a couple of...
We at the 1996 Northwest Historical Minatures Convention "Enfilade" in Seattle, Washington, played with 60+ ships (1/1200 scale) using a set of rules called...
Good Morning Mike Baulch: I ran four games of Plan Orange naval games at Historicon this year, and had fun doing it too. You should have at least 3 commanders...
Good Afternoon Harold: Where do you game? To have a good game master helps a lot for all the players in the game. We in Portland, Oregon sometimes get to...
I'm in the western part of Fairfax County, Virginia. Chantilly, to be precise. ... -- Strategypage.com Contributor "There is no way I'm backing out; I'll find...
... I've played Trafalgar several times in a day. Managed it using FLoB at the Napoleonic Fair a few years back with 4 players and gamed to a conclusion in 6...
I've looked at the demo from http://www.mj12games.com/. They look interesting. The big problem with the demo is that you only have stats for one ship! Mark ......
... From: Richard B Wright To: GenQuarters@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 9:14 AM Subject: [GenQuarters] What color are Japanese torpedoes?...
Good Morning Mal: What's new in the SW Pacific? Has any skirmishes between the Papuan Naval units and the Australian Navy occurred lately. It seems that CNN...
Can this guy actually expect an answer with a question like this? Takes all kinds! Cheers Bill M. ... From: James Kyler pzkpfw111g@... Date: Sat, 4 Sep...
the germans did something similar in yougosavia during ww2 kill a german and a village got wipped out in response spider ... From: James Kyler To: Mal Wright ;...
I'm thinking to buy this expansion for the GWAS game series. May someone that already owns it post a brief review of this product? Im'm mainly interested in...
Have it, like it. It includes (as I'm sure you've read) the first set of die-cut counters in an APL supplement. Lots of Russian and Turkish hypotheticals -...
Xander, thank you very much for your answer! I think that I'll give it a try anyway, although I'm not very interested in what-ifs. The new tactical rules could...
"Ranging Roll" is pretty simplistic, really. Roll 1d6 greater than or equal to the current range and you've got it (ranges 7 and 8 count as '6' for these...
No I don't need an answer. I just want to start a dialogue with Mal Wright. It seems that his email address is out of action again, unable to get thru to him....