"Anyone game with 1:1200 scale WWII ships? " Topic

I'm curious if anyone games with 1:1200 scale ships? I've only ever seen games with 1:2400 and smaller. If so, what rules are you using?

Many, Many years ago we played Fletcher Pratt rules with 1/1200. It took up a whole basement floor.

1/1200 ships became too expensive and the area needed was too large for such games to continue.

I would not recommend the Pratt rules. Way too fiddly for my tastes.

Al

Yes, but primarily coastal forces actions, with destroyers and smaller.

Would love to game with some big boys at a convention, with lots of space.

Just coastals.

Coastals and destroyers…and sloops and Frigates and mine sweepers ,trawlers and so on …..

1/700 scale for me.

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I am now going to use Naval Thunder.

Thanks,

John

I have used Fletcher Pratt rules, but most of the time I have used Clear for Action. They do take up a lot of room, but I like to be able to see them( the eyes just aren't what they used to be).

Yes, on the patio or driveway.

Thinking further I have also played coastal warfare using 1/1250 but that too has been a few years. Going to have to dig out the eboats and Fairmiles again. Used schnellrules for schnellboots for those.

Like the bigger ships and used to have a bunch of 1/700 but never gamed those. Too much space needed. 1/4800 is my current scale for WWII.

I do, using GQIII. I find I don't need a gym, just the living foom when the family is gone. Been collecting them since 1968.

"I'm curious if anyone games with 1:1200 scale ships?"

Go to the big HMGS conventions. They usually do a big 1:1200 game on Sunday. From the 2013 Cold Wars PEL (March 7-10):

Z-160 – Pursuit of the Goeben August 1914
Sun. 10:00 AM, 4 hrs, 10 players
GM: Dave Emdee
WWI 1:1200, Rules: Victory at Sea
SMS Goeben is loose in the eastern Med heading for Constantinople. The British 1st Armored Cruiser Squadron stands in her path in a do or die effort to sink Goeben. Battlecruisser vs. 4 Armored Cruiser in a tough battle.
Rules taught (3 minutes at most)

There used to be a group that used them for games on the floor at Little Wars.

I remember playing with them at scale in high school and college. One of my friends managed to get his hands on the tennis courts in college for a post WW1 battleship game. I think the Colorados opened fire at 80'. Good times.

I use 1/1200. "Action Stations" for coastal games on my tabletop. For bigger games (usually on the lounge floor, patio or for relaly big games a village hall) I tend to use a variant of the old Skytrex WW2 rules. We used the same rules for our 1/600 refight of North Cape on board HMS Belfast on the 60th anniversary of the battle in 2003.

Way back when, my group gamed 1/1200 naval also using Fletcher Pratt's rules (modified, of course). Between four of us, we built close to 750 ships from balsa wood and wire. Then we started on WWI.

Luckily the basement in my house was unfinished so we had the room to play.

Many years ago, we played 1:1200 in the parking lot
behind the FLGS on Sundays.

Fletcher Pratt's were the rules used and binoculars
were necessary !

I still have the USN British Navy recognition set, part
of which we used.

Yes, I even managed to game on a 6x4 table with a collection based around the Airfix set.for rules I adapted GW's Battle Fleet : Gothic.
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Paul – any chance you would be willing to share the naval rules you use? I am a fan of BFG myself and always thought it would be a good base for a WWII naval game…

Please let me know.

Andrew.

Andrew, I wouldn't like to fall foul of copyright law, but I'm sure that you could adapt BFG yourself.

Paul.

Yes I game with 1/1200. Destroyer stuff and smaller. Have some of the stories on my blog. I am using my naval rules which are in playtest; Release the Hounds.

Cheers

Joe