ORIGINAL: Feltan
Not me, I am (relatively) young at fifty-five.
Regards,
Feltan
Just want to make sure. I'm just a poor gorn and I'm asking if you're 55 earth years old or is that in kellikams?
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Post by geofflambert »
ORIGINAL: Feltan
Not me, I am (relatively) young at fifty-five.
Regards,
Feltan
Post by Rising-Sun »
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Feltan
Not me, I am (relatively) young at fifty-five.
Regards,
Feltan
Just want to make sure. I'm just a poor gorn and I'm asking if you're 55 earth years old or is that in kellikams?
ORIGINAL: Reg
ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
In the early 70 my older brother used to play some kind of naval wargame with miniatures. Must have been scenarios as they only took an afternoon. They rented out the HS gym and used the whole basketball court. I thought it was about the geekiest thing I had ever heard of in my life. Girls were far more interesting.
ORIGINAL: dave sindel
Moose, I think that game was called "Seapower". Made for use wih 1/1200 scale ships. Somewhere in the garage I still have a bunch of those ships in a box. They were made by a company in Virginia called "ALNAVCO". I think they marketed the game as well.
Another contender is Battle Stations!. This doesn't use dice but a slide rule to do gunnery calculations and ship list is calculated from flooding compartments in a diagram of the ships internal structure... (draw you own conclusions regarding complexity from that!!! [X(])
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18596/battlestations
It's designed for scales of 1:1200 to 1:19200 but with the 16"/50 1936m7 gun (Iowa, Montana class) having a maximum range on 42,345 yards (which equates to 35 yards at 1:2400 scale), you still have a game with a HUGE playing area!!!
It was computerised in a game called Action Stations by a company called Raw Entertainment which took all the calculations off the player and added an element of "Fog of War". However, the IBM-PC DOS/keyboard user interface was terrible and I believe the only version worth playing was the Amiga version which used that machines GUI user interface. (You can still find it on abandon-ware sites).
A comprehensive range 1:2400 waterline ship models are still available from GHQ Models
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Post by eggmansdaddy »
ORIGINAL: pelthunter
Most complex game ever devised is called US Senate.
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