charles popp | 25 Jun 2023 7:34 p.m. PST |
of rules for large battles for trireme era warfare |
BillyNM | 25 Jun 2023 11:52 p.m. PST |
What about Oi Navarcoi? There's plenty of TMP threads on it and they're free to download. |
Dexter Ward | 26 Jun 2023 1:56 a.m. PST |
Corvus is free, and good for up to a couple of dozen ships a side |
Stosstruppen ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 26 Jun 2023 5:41 a.m. PST |
the Osprey set Poseidons Warriors is supposed to be good for large battles. |
David Manley | 26 Jun 2023 9:32 a.m. PST |
I wrote "He Hemetera Thalassa, Mare Nostrum" specifically for large fleet actions. Ships are based in groups with several groups combined into squadrons, and squadrons into fleets. I play with 1/2400 models, 3-5 ships to a base but I know many players use single 1/1200 models instead of groups. They are on Wargame Vault if you are interested. |
GildasFacit ![Sponsoring Member of TMP Sponsoring Member of TMP](boards/icons/sponsor.gif) | 26 Jun 2023 11:21 a.m. PST |
Corvus is more toward the 'Actium' end of galley warfare than 'Salamis'. More polyremes than Trieres. It works well enough though and is a fun game with more 'Hollywood' than 'Helicarnassus' about it. Many of the fast play rules have very limited historical 'accuracy' and combining vessels into 'groups' makes the real tactical choices of the period quite difficult to implement. |
williamb | 28 Jun 2023 7:07 a.m. PST |
Our club did the battle of Chios with three players per side and over 100 ships on each side. 1 to 1 except for the lembis which were 1 to 2. There is a free version of Corvus on the internet and an improved version available from the society of ancients. |
Alkedo | 28 Jun 2023 7:37 a.m. PST |
if you do try Oi Navarcoi, please let me know how it goes! I am always interested in getting feedback! have fun! |
Deucey ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 16 Mar 2024 8:23 a.m. PST |
I'll second Oi Navarchoi. I've played it a couple of times and it feels right. It's aimed at Trireme fleet actions. |
Kernstown | 19 Mar 2024 11:17 a.m. PST |
I recently had the opportunity to play Greeks at Sea by Brian DeWitt. Fun game. There is a review of same on Mark's Game Room. |
Deserter | 04 Jun 2024 6:23 a.m. PST |
Salamini are simple rules for Trireme, you can handle quite a large number of models link |