OK...for all the gumblebums who have thought it would never happen....it
has!!! And you were all such doubters!!! I have just been told by the publishers,...
OK...for all the gumblebums who have thought it would never happen....it
has!!! And you were all such doubters!!! I have just been told by the publishers,...
Mal stole my thunder (I just heard from CinC as well). For UK gamers it will be available from Caliver and Navwar - UK prices not known yet. In adition to the...
David Manley
david.manley@...
Aug 2, 2006 5:36 pm
26610
... I recently finished reading "Jutland: the German Perspective", and it seems to indicate, at least according to German sources, the "Battle Turn About", was...
Yes, it is true. The official announcement... Now Hear This! GENERAL QUARTERS 3RD EDITION due to launch on 1 September 2006 from Old Dominion GameWorks! ...
And for US buyers, you can go to Old Dominion Game Works site to pre- order. As Mal pointed out, the retail price is $47.95 for the bound, 30th anniversary...
In Issue 1 of the new Wargames Journal Magazine (http://www.wargamesjournal.com/home/index.asp) there is a scenario for the Battle of the Nile and a set of...
Well, the ease of play is still there. You will note that in the advertising
there is mention of what seems rather a lot of charts. In fact you only need
a...
Byron I knew of the 2 up tactic of the Grand Fleet when faced with superior numbers but was unaware of the HSF tactic of firing by Division. I shall have to...
While working up to our big Jutland game (the strategic rules are being tested next weekend) we have played several practise games using GQ2. The fact that the...
... Which, given she was one of the newest, and presumably best equipped made no sense at all. A classic case of corporate inertia and internal politics making...
Could anyone recommend a good set of rules for ACW. SOmething a couple of gentlemen wargamers can get through in a couple of hours of gaming on a Thursday ...
Try Age of Iron from TCS. Very easy to learn set of rules. There are numerous books on the naval aspects of the Civil War. You might try starting with Divided...
... From: Jan-Willem jwpijlie@... Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 21:17:44 -0000 To: NavWarGames@yahoogroups.com Subject: [NavWarGames] British WW1 targeting...
byron@...
Aug 6, 2006 3:15 am
26623
Hi All, I just wanted to pass along the following information about Peninsula Campaigns 2006. Peninsula Campaigns will be held next weekend, Saturday August 12...
At the risk of blowing one's own trumpet, may I suggest "Iron and Fire" from A&A Game Engineering? http://www.aandagames.co.uk/iron_and_fire.htm Regards, DM...
David Manley
david.manley@...
Aug 6, 2006 10:02 am
26625
<snip> Sorry, I meant to send that direct to Simon. DM ... From: "David Manley" <david.manley@...> To: <NavWarGames@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday,...
David Manley
david.manley@...
Aug 6, 2006 10:07 am
26626
Well given that you should only be using 6" guns or smaller when firing at small ship targets to get a realistic chance of hitting, [based on rate of fire and...
While designing our strategic rules for the Jutland Campaign I came upon something funny: in GQ2 the game-scale is said to be 4" to a 1000 yds. A nautical mile...
... From: Jan-Willem jwpijlie@... Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 05:06:49 -0000 To: NavWarGames@yahoogroups.com Subject: [NavWarGames] GQ2 scale error? While...
byron@...
Aug 7, 2006 3:35 pm
26629
Hi, Actually no. The author purposely reduced the movement speeds to keep the vessels from closing too fast, and/or steaming out of range too quickly, since...
... Text to this effect is indeed somewhere in the rules. Somebody on this group, possibly Mal Wright or Brian McCue pointed out that this invoked a different...
Yes. I raised it Brooks. Also raised in in pre Internet days! (Wow...that
sounds a long time ago) via the Naval Wargames Society magazine. Mal. ... From:...
A lot of you probably already know these ships well, but just for the heck of it I wanted to draw the group's attention to the United States Navy's, and...
In the last days if not hours before war was declared on September 3, 1939, a British capital ship -- I *think* RENOWN or REPULSE -- had a German pocket...
Gentlemen, Can anyone direct me to information and/or deck plans for small (two or three mast) South East Asian Junks? I'm interested in Age-of-Sail junks --...
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