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RE: OT: Found on ebay....
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 12:55 am
by 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?
RE: OT: Found on ebay....
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 3:20 am
by Rising-Sun
Been working on a new system here with tactical naval engagement system. So far doing pretty good, but don't have a opponent to test it. Still gotta get all those other miniatures and I get them from Panzerschiffe. When I got this game board War in the Pacific 2ed by DG, was very disappointed with the naval rules. So I decided to work something out on my own. Also gotta paint them, they all grey epoxy castings, and they are all 1/2400 scale.
I even made maps through out the Pacific, having them blown up so you can see up close, so this would be suitable to play on Tactical levels like Squad Leader. Transporting stuffs as well resources through out the Pacific can be interesting, so you can build infrastructures on any islands you want.
I am hoping having this project done sometime next year and not sure how I can have this published.
RE: OT: Found on ebay....
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 12:47 pm
by Feltan
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?
It is all relative considering the space/time continuum. I am at a point where my offspring are happily bankrupting me seeking higher education -- that should be a universal measure across the universe.
Regards,
Feltan
RE: OT: Found on ebay....
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 7:39 pm
by Numdydar
I feel sorry for you [:)] I made mine pay their own way. Not that has made much difference with what happened with the US economy [:(]
RE: OT: Found on ebay....
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 9:26 am
by wegman58
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
The floor version was Battle Stations? I remember playing that at one of the early Origins conventions in the late 1970's - Zimm was there. And for what the graphics were in those days - I didn't find Action Stations that bad. Considering what RADAR looked like at that time (you looked at this little round scope, with something to protect your night vision if it were dark out. That and learning the art of writing backwards with grease pencils in Combat as your display. My ships were 1960's models, I never saw a modern CIC.
RE: OT: Found on ebay....
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 1:58 am
by eggmansdaddy
ORIGINAL: pelthunter
Most complex game ever devised is called US Senate.
Which is also the worst joke ever concocted...with hot air, posturing and BS aplenty...
RE: OT: Found on ebay....
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 2:53 am
by T Rav
Hans Bolter, et al,
I actually own(ed) a copy of the Westinghouse Logistics game. Mom came across it at a garage sale when I was in college and she picked it up for a couple dollars. I never played it as I was into Squad Leader at the time. That was thirty-plus years ago.
Not sure if the game was one of the victims of my storage unit's leaky roof though. I will check and see if I still have it.
BTW Hans, I grew up in St. Pete. I miss the Florida beaches...
T Rav