I actually was kicking the tires on looking into doing something like this
right before Sering died. We’d had some conversations about it and he lent me
something like 8 books on carrier battles.
Anyhoo, I’ve always wanted to do something like this and I am emphatically in.
Depending on how many responses you get, I’d be willing to help you on the
administrative side too.
On Feb 25, 2019, at 12:08 PM, Chris Trimble
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Jonathan,
I am interested.
God's Peace!
Trimble
On Monday, February 25, 2019, 11:05:30 AM CST, jipster
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I spent last week in Sandusky Ohio, playing chit-and-hex-map war games for 8
days. Had a fantastic time.
While there, I played a double blind game of Flat Top, the old Avalon Hill war
game of carrier battles in the Pacific. Never played it before.
For all that it consisted of a bunch of order writing, then going off and
playing other games while the referee ran through all of the hard bits, it was
an absolute blast.
I was wondering if anyone in our group may have any interest in playing this.
It would be played over email, not face to face. I’d provide all the maps,
etc. You’d have to have access to some manner of basic spreadsheet (Excel, for
example).
I can provide copies of the rules, but the vast majority of them y’all wouldn’t
need to know. They’d be mostly for my benefit.
It would be a big time investment in terms of how long the game would likely
run (months), but your ACTUAL time investment once the game got going would be
pretty low.
You’d command Japanese or Allied land based air, carrier forces, surface
fleets, submarines, transports, oilers, etc. Plot out their movement, load
outs, etc. Send out your scout planes. Load your bombers. Then I’d run
through the turns hour by hour until something happens. At which point I’d
send out an update to whomever. You could then change what you were doing,
keep going, whatever.
If you are at least interested in hearing more about this, please let me know.
* Jonathan Perry
