"War Galley (GMT), using miniatures might solve its issues" Topic

Last night I played my first game of GMT's War Galley. I thought the game had a lot to offer but not in its board game format. I thought the game was far too fiddly with too many small counters on hexes that were far too small to hold them. It has to be one of the most fiddly board games I've ever played.

However, I will persist; I will transfer War Galley to the table-top using miniatures on hexes that are three and a half times bigger.

Review and more pics of the table-top game format here

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I like the idea: hexes on a big area like that always make sense to me (I've done a lot of space ship games and – without hexes – I find my head hurts).

I like the idea of hex board game to model table top game conversions: I've seen good things with Memoire44 on that basis.

If it were me, I'd probably paint something on the sails or as banners rather than the beads to denote type and nationality, and leave beads and some such for damage.

But that's probably just me!

John T

I like War Galley also.

The large two hex ships have never caused me a problem, while I realize the small one hex jobbies are small and fiddly, but still not that big a deal.

Stick w/it, James, it will be worth it.

Love your ships. Where did you get them?

They are Xyston 1:600

James' ships are inspirational! Do you like War Galley rules better than the ones you wrote?

You can condense many of those "tables" down to a single line statement along the lines of "Roll 1 d6, succeed on X".

- Ix

Do you like War Galley rules better than the ones you wrote?

Hi BR,
I'm not sure. I think they both do different things. It's just that hexes make everything much clearer.

At some point I'll go back to Fleet of Battle (published in WI #278) and write them for hexes – which shouldn't be too difficult.

Time, I just wish I had more of it.

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- Ix