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Re: Naval wargaming?
« Reply #240 on: 08 August 2021, 14:06:58 »
Why not use both, as big absurd ram-ships?



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Re: Naval wargaming?
« Reply #241 on: 08 August 2021, 14:08:11 »
What the hell is *THAT* from?!?
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Re: Naval wargaming?
« Reply #242 on: 08 August 2021, 14:16:16 »
Gods of Egypt . . . B movie, but pretty good fantasy- my toddler has liked to for the last 2 years or so and it has a surprisingly top notch cast.  Forget his name, but Jaime Lannister is Horus, Chadwick Boseman is Thoth, Ra is Geoffery Rush, Gerard Butler is Set, Rufus Sewell is a human lackey for him, Elodie Yung is Hathor, Bryan Brown is Osiris . . . the two on the snakes?  minor gods serving Set- one white, dressed in white, on a white snake, the other black, dress in black, on a black snake.

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Re: Naval wargaming?
« Reply #243 on: 08 August 2021, 14:26:56 »
Up Pompei, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, respectively.

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Re: Naval wargaming?
« Reply #244 on: 28 September 2021, 20:48:02 »
Arise!

Saw this review of a very consumer focused Naval Wargame here: https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/analysis/hfroanalysis/. This is the kind of thing I would have loved in middle school. Enough detail to make force composition count, but not a lot of detail. Something like this or Harpoon Captain's Edition would make recruiting newbies easier, I think.
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Re: Naval wargaming?
« Reply #245 on: 29 September 2021, 02:26:46 »
I have played in the past several age if sail games. I like fast oaced games that deal with tactics more than the minutae of ship captainship and what aprt of the hull is getting hit. For me the best in that regard is the minalist The Immortal Memory. Can be found free online. You only need to make everybody skill 4 and change the initiative system to a wind based system (the core system is pro-british, that always go last in movement). And then you have a grrat game that palys in 1 hour for flotilla sizes and 2-3 hours for Terafalgar.
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