Comments by "" (@BobSmith-dk8nw) on "Victory at Sea - WW2 Naval Wargames at 1:1800" video.

  1. Hunh ... I guess that's like Miniatures for Naval Wargaming. From High School thru College I had a number of different Wargaming Buddies. We played a lot of board games and miniatures of mostly land battles. In College we'd all meet at this Hobby store on Friday nights - then walk a couple doors down the strip mall to a bar where we drank beer until closing and solved all the worlds problems. Saturday night we'd play War Games at someone's house or the Hobby Store. For Naval Warfare, we mostly all started on Avalon Hill's Midway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_(1964_game) and Jutland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutland_(board_game) And moved on to a system one of the guys developed and we all contributed to (my contribution was the torpedo rules). Here we played with little pieces of cardboard about half an inch in length. The guy who developed the rules owned a hobby store and after hours we'd play on the floor - though on occasion we'd play on a table. We had a round robin of the Worlds Navies: French vs. Italian Italian vs. British British vs. German German vs. US US vs. Japanese US won. We also played Great Naval Battles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Naval_Battles:_North_Atlantic_1939-1943 on my LAN at least once. We intended to do it a lot but ... never did ... One thing all that showed me ... was just what a major difference an inch (usually) was in guns ... Other forms of games we played just used just a compass and protractor Warship Commander (and a sister game) were for Modern Naval Warfare from '67-'97. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/21387/warship-commander-1967-1997-present-day-tactical-n We'd have 3 search maps. One (or more) for each side and the the Judges Map. Each side would plot their moves on Velum - give the Velum to the Judge, who would transfer the move to his Velum - then report back to each side what they'd seen. They'd then issue orders. The orders would be executed on another smaller map with small pieces of cardboard if there was a battle. That was all a lot of fun but gradually life inflicted casualties among us - mostly through women - and our numbers thinned out to nothing. But - we did drink beer at that bar for over 20 years before the end ... Good times. .
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