For the 1:3000 scale WWII ships, you don't really need to base. The miniatures are solid one-piece castings, they're good and sturdy and don't have any...
... looks ... however. We ... feel the same way. Ships look better while playing unbased. I guess a lot of people who do real fine paint jobs what the...
I too have not found basing 1/3000 ships necessary. I run quite a lot of naval games for beginners or wargamers who don't usually do naval. I have painted the...
... However, the availability and cheapness of "Jane's Fighting Ships of WWII" and "Jane's Fighting Ships of WWI" in recent years allowed me to provide these...
... That sounds like it would work well for the larger ship models, for games in which each player controls only one or two ships. I don't think it'd work as...
I am working on a little project using Loch class frigates in the 50s. Does anyone have a clue what their deck colour may have been. I am guessing dark grey...
IIRC from building Airfix 1/600 models of the period several decades ago, the colour suggested for the decks was dark green. Peter Hodges, in the Almark on...
To my last post I should have added, from Hodges' book, that the fo'csle and quarterdeck were left grey or painted in red lead, which he also refers to as Red...
... don't ... ships with ... anyone to ... named ... think ... 1:6000 ... ships ... quite like ... but ... good bit ... naval ... scheme on ... can't ... ...
... I completely agree with the above. My experience has been that CLARITY (both in graphical presentation and in rules) is the single most important factor...
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Mark wrote - "TLAs** ( Three-letter-acronyms ) are taking over my life, Aaack! .....Mark, this is going to be a problem, since the field in which you work...
Byron Angel
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... I used to be a member of the 9LC whch, I discovered was the "Nine Letter Committee" - a committee with a name made up of 9 words. No-one could quite ...
I have to say that from a simulation aspect, making players identify ships by layout or silhouette, beyond their nationality, which is usually known by ...
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I think the point is to keep people from firing selectively at targets because of which ship they are. Gamers routinely fire on Kitakami preferentially....
Albert wrote - ... by layout or silhouette, beyond their nationality, which is usually known by position, seems rather pointless. Would the Germans have...
Byron Angel
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Arius, You raise a legitimate point. One of the drawbacks to miniature gaming is the innate desirability to put the pretty models on the table ASAP. What if...
Byron Angel
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We have tried that here, using some flat shapes cut out of plasticard. We usually have limited time for our games so use them rarely. When we do they work...
... And don't forget, TLA also stands for Two Letter Acronym, Ten Letter Acronym.... -- We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade...
... I've always thought that the point of requiring identification of miniatures was for either fog-of war or for the edification of those who are aficionados...
Can anybody tell me anything about this game? Brian __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or...
Brian, It was one of Grenadier's 'Great Little Game' line games. It is your basic generic WWII submarine wolfpack vs. an escorted convoy. It comes with a paper...
I have never seen this work at all well. It discourages newbies, and non-newbies are (in my experience) able to identify ship models (or at least the ones used...
... Who says we MAKE them identify the ships in a game. What we do is provide the models and the amount of info a real commander has - whether the identify...
Requiring players to ID their targets (or estimate range, or choose which round to fire) is a pet peeve of mine. ************************* Hi; For simulations...
I very much like Byron's "large, medium, small" generic-ship notion. It's easily enough put into effect with various thicknesses of balsa sheet and some...
Hi; I just got the Anaconda ACW naval campaign book, looks very good. In the bibliography it mentions " To Glory We Stear: A Naval Campaign Game For The Age of...
Target identification might be important if you were not sure if your target was a light cruiser w/5" or 6" guns, or a heavy cruiser that could smack the ...
Snipped from Brooks Rowletts defence of not identifying miniatures: How about HMS SYDNEY vs raider KORMORAN? This is Australian pedantry no doubt, but it was...
... And while Kitakami gets smothered under multiple ship fires, the unengaged Nachi and Mogami cut your guts out with 8" fire and, BTW, their own Type 93...
