All aboard for ‘BattleShips’ to test submarine hunting skills. Trainees @RNASCuldrose 824 Squadron’s Merlin Training Facility are playing tactical games designed & made by the instructors. Wargames date back to WW2. The games featuring real @NATO scenarios are making a comeback. pic.twitter.com/12EvE3ERk7
Some of my naval wargaming readers may be interested in this professional Wargames news story which I picked up through Twitter and on BBC local radio in the Southwest UK.
Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN, 19 December 2019
On every naval aviator’s #Christmas list. NOW AVAILABLE at all good training establishments.
Instructors at Culdrose have designed a set of games to help trainee aircrew learn how to hunt for submarines.
Hello I'm Mark Mr MIN, Man of TIN. Based in S.W. Britain, I'm a lifelong collector of "tiny men" and old toy soldiers, whether tin, lead or childhood vintage 1960s and 1970s plastic figures.
I randomly collect all scales and periods and "imagi-nations" as well as lead civilians, farm and zoo animals. I enjoy the paint possibilities of cheap poundstore plastic figures as much as the patina of vintage metal figures.
Befuddled by the maths of complex boardgames and wargames, I prefer the small scale skirmish simplicity of very early Donald Featherstone rules.
To relax, I usually play solo games, often using hex boards. Gaming takes second place to making or convert my own gaming figures from polymer clay (Fimo), home-cast metal figures of many scales or plastic paint conversions. I also collect and game with vintage Peter Laing 15mm metal figures, wishing like many others that I had bought more in the 1980s ...
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4 thoughts on “Royal Navy RNAS Culdrose Submarine Hunting Training Hex Grid Professional War Game”
Really interesting to see this ,thanks for sharing it.
Really interesting to see this ,thanks for sharing it.
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I knew the sight of those light blue hexes would excite some!
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Great stuff- Osprey do a submarine game written by a submariner that is well worth a look.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Pete. I always enjoyed Battleships as a child and this Royal Navy ASW one looks like the luxury version!
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