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Naval: Rules for the Jane Naval War Game
Posted by: ThomoTheLost on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 08:47 AM
Wargames
| RULES
FOR
THE JANE NAVAL WAR GAME
A SEA KRIEGSPIEL SIMULATING ALL THE MOVEMENTS AND EVOLUTIONS OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL TYPE OF MODERN WARSHIP, AND THE PROPORTIONATE EFFECT OF EVERY SORT OF GUN AND PROJECTILE
PART I. TACTICAL PART II. STRATEGICAL
INVENTED BY
FRED T. JANE
AUTHOR OF “ALL THE WORLD'S FIGHTING SHIPS,” ETC., ETC.
REVISED AND APPROVED BY CAPTAIN H.I.H. GRAND DUKE ALEXANDER MIHAILOVITCH OF RUSSIA, I.R.N; CAPTAIN H.S.H. PRINCE LOUIS OF BATTENBERG, R.N.; CAPTAIN H. J. MAY, R.N.; AND LIEUTENANT R. KAWASHIMA, I.J.N.
LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON AND COMPANY
LIMITED
ST. DUNSTAN'S HOUSE, FETTER LANE, E.C.
1898
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
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Wargames: Can You Tell Fact From Fiction, Folks? 1939
Posted by: ThomoTheLost on Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 09:39 PM
Wargames
| | This is an alternative history of the Second World War written by James Kyler. James noted that many years ago he had written an alternate history for the Second World War. This was partly to amuse himself and the other members of his wargame club as well as provide a source for scenarios for games set within that alternate history. James noted that “During the 1980’s I wrote on a manual typewriter a 50 page diary of a reporter that reported events during World War II. It was a story about the military exploits of World War II, mainly battles and it included some members’ names from our club as well. 50 – is true and 50 – is false. Can you tell me the difference?”
James further noted that he’d “lost the first page of it. So we start on the second page.” The first page was later recovered and has been included here to keep the notes complete. Here we present August 1939 according to the alternate history. If you like this and wish to read further, then check in the Download Section of Thomo’s Hole for a complete 1939. 1940 is being prepared at the moment and will be released in three parts. Also, the scenarios that can be played from this alternate history will also be published here in the future as well.
August 2, 1939 – Germany’s Foreign Minister Ribbentrop -- in an almost casual conversation with the Soviet charge’ in Berlin -- said, “from the Baltic to the Black Sea, there was no problem which could not be solved to our mutual satisfaction.”
Albert Einstein writes a letter to Franklin Delanor Roosevelt alerting him to the potential of creating an Atomic bomb. To indicate the power of such a device, Einstein said if the bomb exploded in a port, it “might destroy the whole port together with some surrounding territory.”
The Kriegsmarine unveils some new ships to be added to the fleet; the Pocket Battleship Zenker - sister ship of the Admiral Graf von Spee, Battleships Sachsen, Württemberg, Baden and Bayern (now modernized with new engines, new long range guns, and flak batteries), Light Cruiser Leipzig now has three sister ships -- Gefion, Hela and Gazelle, the training ships Niobe, Amazone, Medusa, Nymphe, and Thetis are to be up gunned to have 10 x 5.9”/45, improved flak batteries and a brace of torpedo tubes. It is hoped that the training cruisers will be ready by the end of 1939.
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Wargames: Fire and Fury: Idiots Guide to Painting American Civil War Figures
Posted by: ThomoTheLost on Thursday, July 31, 2003 - 04:01 AM
Wargames
| Thomo has, over recent years, been purchasing lots of American Civil War figures in 15mm. These have been collected from multiple manufacturers. I have been looking for a quick and easy way to paint them all and so, after a bit of research through the book collection, I present to you, the Idiots Guide to Painting American Civil War Figures.
There are a couple of methods of painting figures and some of them are described in various places on the Internet. The descriptions may not necessarily be for painting American Civil War figures, but the principles are basically the same. When I get a chance, I will include Some Painting Links in the Links section of Thomo's Hole.
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Wargames: Lightning War - Easy play rules for WWII land warfare
Posted by: David Child-Dennis on Friday, July 25, 2003 - 08:07 AM
Wargames
| David Child-Dennis, over the period 1989 to 2003, has written a set of Easy Play World War II wargames rules. These rules are available for download from Thomo's Hole. Check in the Downloads section of the Hole (see the link in the left menu).
In the meantime, to give you a taste of the rules, I have reproduced here the Design Philosophy to the rules. They follow:
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Naval: General Quarters, Defining Ships
Posted by: ThomoTheLost on Wednesday, June 04, 2003 - 12:21 AM
Wargames
| | I like to use General Quarters Rules for Naval Battles. At the same time, not all the ships I play with are defined in the wonderful GQHelper Program. So, to build them, the basic specifications of the vessels need to be converted to game terms. Following then is information that was provided by Jimmy Sperling (principally) in a number of posts to the GQ List at Yahoo Groups. Some additional information, suggestions and such came from other members of the group. Of course, there is a certain amount of RTFM[1] in all this as these items are outlined at the end of the rules. I will admit, the print there is small but it is there never-the-less. Also, the GQHelper and supporting files can be downloaded from Thomo's Hole.
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Wargames: Thomo's Full Thrust
Posted by: ThomoTheLost on Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 01:57 AM
Wargames
| Out beyond Barnard's Star, the intrepid intra-galactic explorer Thomo the Lost, whilst looking for the alchemist's stone, reported last seen on Earth, discovered an unknown Blank Hole[1]. Circulating around the Blank Hole at a safe distance was a small gas giant. In orbit around the giant was a planet that held the richest deposits of Galactitium then known. Galactitium allowed many things, including faster Faster Than Light travel, pollution free local ground transport and when mixed with a black, carborescent, caffiene and sugar rich liquid, made a wonderful drink called Galactitium and Coke.
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Wargames: Wargame Ethics
Posted by: Admin on Monday, March 31, 2003 - 03:24 AM
Wargames
| From time to time I have a period of soul searching, particularly about my wargaming. Occasionally I hear comments from people about wargaming not being an acceptable hobby, relying as it does on the playing of 'battles' with 'model soldiers'. To some extent I can agree with this. It is possible to wargame almost any conflict from pre-history to current times and as such, some of those games or simulations may strike a chord of discomfit in some people.
It was Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948) in Non-Violence in Peace and War who noted What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Note: Naval wargaming I particularly like. I guess this is partly because the engagement is between ships and whilst ships have crews, the ships themselves seem to have a life of their own and that of the crew becomes subordinated to the vessel. I now have a quite large collection of vessels from Ancient Times up to World War II and I think they will form a project for 2003.
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