 Editor in Chief Bill   | 22 May 2017 5:24 p.m. PST |
Which historical naval battles do you want to game before you die? |
| Cmde Perry | 22 May 2017 6:01 p.m. PST |
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 Saber6  | 22 May 2017 6:50 p.m. PST |
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| Allen57 | 22 May 2017 6:53 p.m. PST |
Lissa, Sluys, Lepanto, Mobile Bay, and Salamis. |
 ColCampbell | 22 May 2017 7:04 p.m. PST |
Jutland – done in 1:6000 Tsu Shima – done in 1:2400 Trafalgar – still to do Lepanto – still to do Jim |
| Old Contemptibles | 22 May 2017 7:13 p.m. PST |
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| Allen57 | 22 May 2017 7:22 p.m. PST |
yeah, I should add Savo to my list too. |
| BrianW | 22 May 2017 9:10 p.m. PST |
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| Editor in Chief Bill | 22 May 2017 9:37 p.m. PST |
Constitution vs. Guerriere |
| Texas Jack | 22 May 2017 10:46 p.m. PST |
Foochow in 1/3000. Navwar makes the Chinese but, curiously, not the French. |
 War Artisan  | 23 May 2017 11:05 a.m. PST |
The Four Days Battle, 1666. |
| Joes Shop | 23 May 2017 3:39 p.m. PST |
Savo Island in 1/1200 (played in my long, wide driveway). |
 Virtualscratchbuilder | 23 May 2017 4:38 p.m. PST |
The Four Days Battle, 1666. You and me both… and my Langtons collect dust for lack of an opponent. |
| Virtualscratchbuilder | 23 May 2017 4:42 p.m. PST |
I would rather do some non-historicals - Argentina VS Chili circa 1902
- German incursion into Baltic, 1917
- Early predreads 1893, later predreads 1902
- European ironclads 1870ish, 1880ish
- Turkey vs Russia, 1916
- Twilight of the gun line, 1958 All these I could do… sniff…. if there was a naval gamer near by. |
| Deuce03 | 23 May 2017 11:49 p.m. PST |
Lowestoft. I'd like to do the Four Days too. |
 Yellow Admiral | 25 May 2017 1:02 p.m. PST |
Anglo-Dutch Wars battles are permanently on my list. The most likely naval bucket list battles to happen in the next few years are Lepanto, and the obscure but glorious battle of Gibraltar in 1607:
But to be honest, the real answer is "all of them". Generally speaking, if I read about it, I end up wanting to play it. Heck, I want to play it even if I make it up from whole cloth. I have miniatures for never-wars like the American vs. Japanese pre-dreadnought era war in 1908-1909, the Franco-American war in Mexico in 1866, Rozhestvensky vs. the Royal Navy in 1904/5, Italo-Germano-Austro-Hungarian fleet vs. the Franco-British fleet in the WWI Mediterranean, the "Italia Irridenta Wars" in the 1880s (Italian ironclads vs. British or French for Malta, Corsica, Tunisia, etc.), and have played several already. - Ix |
| 138SquadronRAF | 26 May 2017 9:11 a.m. PST |
I have to choose just one? Since I can't get enough of naval gaming. Here's some suggestions: Battle of Ecnomus (256 BC) Dutch Wars Toulon and The Glorious First of June (1893) from "The Captain of the Mary Rose" Trafalgar 1905 from ""Trafalgar Refougth" (1905) |
