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Post by cowboy40 on May 29, 2023 0:22:52 GMT -7
Has anyone else, in our group, used these rule sets from the mind of Larry Bond and his team: if so, I would like to pick your minds and get some thoughts and ideas about them? Larry Bond's World War II rules sets based on the Harpoon system...Command at Sea...it covers naval actions from 1926 to around 1955. It does a great job covering just about every aspect of the naval combat from that era, including airships, aircraft and so on.... Command at Sea 4th Edition 2nd Printing
Rule set:
Fleet Annexes: (some of the annexes contain scenarios as well!!!)
Scenario Books:
Also the Harpoon rule sets, that would cover from 1956 to date...
Harpoon V
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Fleet Annexes:
These are the latest versions of the rule sets that I have in my collection, but I have been playing the Harpoon rules since they first came out in 1980, with the first edition. I have just recently started to play the Command at Sea rules for World War II. I find it great how the sets are designed to work together. I will eventually get into the other two sets of rules for the system, but first I want to add more to the Harpoon V sets, and expand to the rest of the Command at Sea rules.
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Post by cowboy40 on May 29, 2023 0:27:19 GMT -7
The gaming group, that I do pen and paper gaming with, is planning to do a scenario run through at a gaming fair in the high desert of Southern California. It is gong to based on a "Final Countdown" type of mission.
We are hoping to show how all four rule sets ATG system can be used together. The game we are planning is going to involve about 20 of us doing the mission, and it is going to be played for about eight hours. We hope that it will demonstrate that the system isn't as hard as it looks.
Your thoughts are very welcome....
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Post by bazbaziah on May 31, 2023 11:26:36 GMT -7
I played Harpoon when it first came and enjoyed split board sub hunt games. The only negative was the time it took to play turns and the scale of the space you needed to play any sort of serious actions. With split board games this was not really a problem as players from each side sat in different rooms and plotted on their own map. A referee had a master map with everything on including random decoys, merchants etc.
I still have the original edition boxed set and most of the sups. that were published before 1993ish. Sadly all my ships, aircraft etc. are long since gone.
Jim
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Post by cowboy40 on Jun 1, 2023 19:22:22 GMT -7
I played Harpoon when it first came and enjoyed split board sub hunt games. The only negative was the time it took to play turns and the scale of the space you needed to play any sort of serious actions. With split board games this was not really a problem as players from each side sat in different rooms and plotted on their own map. A referee had a master map with everything on including random decoys, merchants etc. I still have the original edition boxed set and most of the sups. that were published before 1993ish. Sadly all my ships, aircraft etc. are long since gone. Jim You know I to started to play the game back in the 1980's, It was actually about the same time I started to play the FASA Star Trek game. I think i got them both from the same hobby/game shop in Weatherford, Okla. I think these also lead my way into the Navy... I am really enjoying the Command at Sea rule set. It really gives you the feel of what the close quarters combat was like on the firing lines. Big guns going off...the random smoke and the fog...the chaos of fighting off a torpedo attack from destroyers...trying to fight battleships with heavy cruisers and the disaster that arises when a lightly armed cruiser finds herself under the guns. The thrill of conducting a defensive operation with plywood wonders such as Elco and Higgons type mother torpedo boats. Being about a modified PT that has been armed to the teeth with guns...busting Japanese landing barges. The victories and utter defeat of the U-boats in the Atlantic... The ability to work up other units that aren't listed in the Annexes...example would be the American 1945 fleet boats, that were to be the follow-on to the Tench class... Now with the Harpoon rules you can contrast how naval warfare changed from the late 50's on Also as i said before you can even mix those years of the 50's with the rule sets... Great feel for naval warfare in the 20th Century.... |
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Post by cowboy40 on Jun 1, 2023 19:42:35 GMT -7
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