"Favorite Naval Minis Game" Topic

Any era. Even Fantasy.

Nimitz

Fletcher Pratt

War Galley

Flying Colors

Dahlgren and Columbiad

General Quarters 1 and 2

Find, Fix and Strike

Narrow Seas

Blood, Sweat and Iron – ACW ironclads.

Ironclads – we converted the boardgame to miniature rules years ago and played the heck out of it.

Wooden Ships & Iron Men

Seekrieg

GQ 1/2

"White Bear – Red Sun" rules for the pre-dreadnought period.

Jim

Man O' War (Games Workshop)
Broadside (Milton Bradley)
Pirates of the Spanish Main (WizKids)
Ram Speed (Metagaming)
Roman Seas (Hotz)

Sky Galleons of Mars
Heart of Oak

Sides of Steel / Dreadnought for WW1 era. Not too simple, not coo complex, loads of fun.

North Cape – a long OOP game with 1/4800 ships from CiC – essentially a hex version of GQ 1.

In the past: Fletcher Pratt
Now, Nimitz; Find, Fix and Strike; and Gridded Naval Wargames

A tie – Don't Give Up the Ship and Fletcher Pratt.

Nimitz or Naval Thunder

Mad for War
Sails of Glory
Dawn of Iron
General Quarters
General Quarters: Fleet Action Imminent

Naval Thunder

I've purchased but not yet played Armada (Mantic Games).

Naval Thunder.
Wooden ships & iron men.

Fletcher Pratt and DBA

GQ III

Ironclads and Etherflyers.
The campaign game of the Spanish-American War is great!

Dave Manley's Splendid Little War.

Currently it's the Mantic Games fantasy variation of Black Seas, "Armada," or for historicals just "Black Seas".

GQIII

Ironclads – played with miniatures
Dystopian Wars
Victory at Sea
Sky Galleons of Mars

GQ 3 (and Fleet Action Imminent, the WWI version of the same system)

GQ 1,2 &3 for WW1 & WW2 but Find, Fix and Strike is growing on me.

Broadside & Salvo and the sister rules Dahlgren and Columbiad for the early age of steam.

I really like 'Follow the Admiral's Wake" for AWI and Napoleonic sail.

Starting to get into 'Mad for War' for the Anglo-Dutch late 17th Century stuff.

GQ III/FAI for WW II and I. Haven't found any for earlier periods that really make me happy.

Battlestations! Battlestations! is my favorite WW2 naval rules to play. Fast play and lots of fun!

Rules – GQ

Game – Midway

Trireme

Old but still my favorite

x42

Not played many, but let's nominate Man O' War and Sails of Glory.

Close Action

Ironclad Gunboat
Go In and Sink
Quickfire

General Quarters Post Captain

Nimitz
Anything by David Manley
Fletcher Pratt variants.

I would like to know more about the Spanish American War campaign for Ironclads & Aether Flyers.

SEEKRIEG

Naval Thunder and like x42brown, Trireme.

Seekrieg.

And if I can count it as an honorary miniatures game, Yaquinto's "Ironclads."

Uncharted Seas

Battleship?

General Quarters III [by Old Dominion]
Fleet Action Imminent

Fire When Ready

Wooden Ships and Iron Men [like, a classic]

Avalanche Press for combining playable strategic naval games in context with some tactical play… gotta respect that.

And finally, the best of the best… Battlefield Gothic!!!!!!
Easily the best WWI miniatures game ever, forget that it is in space…

War Galley – Commercial classic hex'n'counter
HAdvance and Transfer – Homegrown
Limeys and Slimeys – Play at ODMS cons

They are favourites, but really the only ones I play.

Ancient – Trireme played with models
Ancient – Ad Mare Bellum

Renaissance – WRG Rulettes: 16thC Naval Warfare

Age of Sail – Admirals (fleet actions)
Age of Sail – Away Boarders (small ship actions)

Ironclad – Devil at the Helm
Ironclad – Dahlgren and Columbiad

1889-1905 – Devil at the Helm
1889-1905 – Seekrieg V
1889-1905 – Fire When Ready

WWI – Seekrieg V
WWI – Si Vis Pacem

WW2 – Seekrieg V

Fantasy – Nimitz

Post Captain ( only rules I own I haven't modified)
TFL Coastal Patrol
Narrow Seas

Joe

After trying it recently, I'm rather impressed by Fighting Battleships.