| Alyxander100 | 17 Mar 2015 7:33 p.m. PST |
I bought a copy of this wonderful little game a long while back (I bought it third-hand) and still love breaking it out occasionally and playing it. My question though is if anyone has put together a conversion for this for tabletop rather than hex and counter – Any thoughts? I thought of just trading "Hexes" for "inches" would this cause any mechanics issues you think? I would be looking to play it at 1:1200 scale – I am not certain that inches would play the best at this scale Any thoughts would be awesome. |
| Robert Burke | 17 Mar 2015 7:53 p.m. PST |
Ship of the Line was published years ago. It's the miniature version of WS&IM. Sadly, it's been out of print for years. |
| de Ligne | 17 Mar 2015 7:53 p.m. PST |
Years ago my friend Pete in Sheffield and I traded up this great game from the card ships to plastic models. He made an enlarged hex base that covered his living room floor and I converted about 30 plastic kits (I think they were all the Victory model) but by the time I had finished they looked the part!!
Oh, those were the days. I am talking 30 years ago and who knows where all that stuff is now. |
| Narratio | 17 Mar 2015 8:00 p.m. PST |
Agreed on Ship of the Line. For those people who wanted to use models when there were oh so very few of them. A modernised update might be nice, instead of the inches/mm as used, you could use ship base depths… |
| Alyxander100 | 17 Mar 2015 8:08 p.m. PST |
Was it called Ship O' the Line by Battle line publication? I may have found a copy of them on Scribd.com – not sure how legal they are, but at first look they seem to be WS&IM for inches/mm rules – the diagrams seem to be the same at least |
79thPA  | 17 Mar 2015 8:37 p.m. PST |
Is there a reason you want to get away from using a hex mat? You could use a hex is an inch and just eyeball the appropriate hex facing change for turns. I think we use two inch hexes when we used miniatures. |
| jowady | 17 Mar 2015 8:53 p.m. PST |
IIRC the rules had a specification that if you wanted to use 1/2000 scale minis you simply used three hexes instead of two (and I think you multiplied all movement factors and ranges by 1.5 but I may be wrong about that). Oh and yes, it was Ship O The Line by Battleline. |
| Bezmozgu7 | 18 Mar 2015 3:40 a.m. PST |
Yes, the rules are "Ship of the Line" by Battleline. I still have my copy and 1:2400 ships based for it. The game is played on a grid of 1" squares for 1:2400 and each ship occupies two squares. I found the hexes in the WSIM board game better than the squares for movement and range determination and now that there are a number of hex grid mats available that seems to be the better course to follow. You could use a larger than 1" hex grid for 1:1200 ships. Ship of the Line offers a number of more detailed optional rules, but otherwise plays pretty much like the boardgame. |
| 45thdiv | 18 Mar 2015 4:29 a.m. PST |
The sails of Glory game is very close to what you are looking for. The advanced rules have you managing crew, sail state, what type of shot is loaded and more. Matthew |
| Inkpaduta | 18 Mar 2015 6:26 a.m. PST |
When I did it I just made a hex one inch. It worked fine. |
| Stalkey and Co | 17 Feb 2020 10:05 p.m. PST |
my game club converted it to open table, but I think hexes would be easier. No changes needed, just put dots where all the hex lines meet and you're on your way! |
paints brigs for the British fleet.