{"id":13065,"date":"2025-09-21T20:43:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=13065"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:18:38","slug":"naval-wargames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/naval-wargames\/","title":{"rendered":"Naval Wargames"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My interest in naval wargaming was rejuvenated when I considered how to recreate the Battle of Actium which I document on my page, Playing the Battle of Actium<\/a>. My researches have pointed me at several other games and rule sets. Here are my notes and links. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Miniatures <\/a>| Actium <\/a>| Dreadnoughts <\/a>| Convoys<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes and Links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. A note on Reddit called Naval combat game recommendations<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Sails of glory<\/a> 1650 to 1815, ~60% complexity rating, this link is from BBG<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The Naval war of 1812<\/a> from BBG<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Donald Featherstone\u2019s Naval War Games ebook<\/a>, from Amazon, which includes rules for Ancient, 16th Century, 18th Century, Napoleonic, the ACW, Late 19th Century, Early 20th Century, and WWI & II.And oddly, this video on playing Games Workshop’s Man O’War<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Perhaps I should return to the politics, while thinking about it, I came across this, Cromwell’s Navy: The Fleet and the English Revolution 1648\u20131660<\/a> Capp, Bernard, Cromwell’s Navy: The Fleet and the English Revolution 1648\u20131660<\/em> (Oxford, 1989; online edn, Oxford Academic, 3 Oct. 2011), https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/acprof:oso\/9780198201151.001.0001<\/a>, accessed 19 Sept. 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I mean Actium and Lepanto are about the hegemony of Latin Civilisation, probably twinned with the land battles in Israel and Poland that stopped the Mongol horde. I found this article, there are probably many more, called, Ancient Ocean Wars: 6 Incredible Naval Battles <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Spanish Armada should be about technological superiority i.e, ship-to-ship cannon fire and point of sail, and so its important, not to mention the catholic\/protestant dimension of the conflict. See Wargame: the Spanish Armada 1588<\/a> from Helion<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Then there’s a gap of battles between Trafalgar and Jutland, although I wonder if there are any good representations of the Battle of Hampton Roads<\/a>, which is also about technical transformation of warship technology and the Battle of the Falklands 1914 which was about the supremacy of the Dreadnought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I found https:\/\/naval-encyclopedia.com\/naval-battles.php<\/a> which is a comprehensive list of naval battles around the world. It might take some study. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t