Dipping my Little Toe in the Big Ocean of Naval Wargaming?

 

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Out of the packet …

 

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Grey painted undercoated merchant shipping with matchstick funnels where needed. Simple bases need painting. 

I am not by nature a naval gamer. Some of my school friends were but it didn’t immediately ring any bells for me as someone who likes Simple 1:1 figure gaming, none of this 1 figure equals so many men. You could argue even more so, that one ship represents even more men.

Buying HMS Flying Tiger eraser battleships as recruits for a Pound store navy?

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/09/hms-flying-tiger-eraser-battleships

The next question – What simple rules to use? Track down Featherstone’s Naval Wargaming?

What scale or range would a few cheap metal escorts be for a convoy game?

Hmmm …

 

Blogposted by Mark, Man of TIN, August 2018.