[Consim-l] Sea Power and the State

[Mike NotSpecified]

Hi Markus, I was hoping you'd chime in.  Yes, Stephen takes a lot of grief 
over the map, but in playing it is quite adequate.  I did blow mine up by 10 
percent, which fits nicely on 11x14 paper.  And if the land forms look 
unusual, well I understand that is a result of the projection used, and 
anyway, its a NAVAL game right?  ;)

Whoever Chris and John are, I hope they take you up on a game, wish I could! 
 Maybe someday at consimworld?


On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:30:48 +1030 (CST)
  Markus Stumptner <mst at cs.unisa.edu.au> wrote:
> Thanks Mike, for that very interesting review!  Yes, it has a number of 
>weird aspects, such as the map which ranks with SimCan's cruder ones (it 
>seems that the start of the war was an enormous blast that took Denmark off 
>the map).  But I've always liked SimCan's "we'll give you every ship in the 
>world at that level of abstraction" approach in this game, similar to Line of 
>Battle and Battleship, and the system looked interesting to me. I've been 
>after some people to try this out with but not much luck so far in getting it 
>to the top of the stack.
> 
> Chris and John, if either of you wants to give this one a try, let me know. 
>:-)
> 
> An ironic side aspect to this game is that SimCan put out an operational 
>counterpart, Battle Stations, which had almost exactly the same countersheet. 
>Unfortunately that one definitely did not work, which was doubly sad since I 
>had hoped it would serve as a replacement for Victory's Fleet series when I 
>started to become unhappy with its logarithmic CRT. The scale of Battle 
>Stations was a bad match and weapons ranges easily exceeded the map area. I 
>remember Steve Newberg once referred to Battle Stations as SimCan's second 
>worst game.
> 
> Markus
> 
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