This module provides 7 ready-to-use Scenarios for Close Action [CA] 3rd Edition. These scenarios are quicker to set up and play than those in other CA scenario books. The scenarios have been carefully selected from among the hundreds of actual battles from 1739 to 1815 to provide a set of interesting small actions; the first six can be played by no more...
Close Action is a realistic game system that recreates tactical naval combat during the wars of the French Revolution and Empire, better known as the Napoleonic era. Close Action is a simultaneous movement game. At the beginning of each game turn, all players plot their actions for that game turn on ship logs. The plots are then revealed and executed...
Nominated for 2025 Charles S. Roberts Awards (“CSR Awards”) recognize excellence in tabletop conflict simulations. This is a game of modern naval combat; the focus is mainly on Convoy operations. Additional scenarios introduce rules for battle in the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean. Ground battle is abstracted, although air and missile strikes against the...
From the box: The famous clue suspects are all aboard Mr. Boddy's luxury yacht sailing to parts unknown. One will become a victim of foul play. What room of the yacht did the murder take place, which weapon was used, and who did it? Was it Colonel Mustard in the galley with the oar? Or Miss Scarlet on the sun deck with the scarf? (This time, Mr. Boddy...
Coal, and the Kaiser is a naval warfare simulation portraying naval surface warfare in the period 1904-1918. The simulation presents aspects of this warfare through a series of scenarios. Scenario generators provided with the game can be used to create scenarios typical for the time and place that the game covers. The game presents these battles on a...
Coal & Guns Big Battles: Lissa 1866 is a very agile rules-booklet (two pages) designed for 3D wargaming, which allows you to replay in two or three hours the famous battle of Lissa of 1866 between the fleet of the Kingdom of Italy and that of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The rulebook includes simple silhouettes of the main ships that took part in the...
This volume contains “ship cards” for the rule set Coal & Guns!. In order to play with them you need the basic rulebook. Coal & Guns! is a three-dimensional tactical naval wargame for the era of the so-called "Pre-Dreadnought". Above all, it wants to be a very simple and fast way to arrange on the table some models of those picturesque ships that marked...