Would give it a go, for sure.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:50 PM kingpin1lds <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I would be interested. Anchors away.
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Date: 2/25/19 11:03 AM (GMT-06:00)
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Subject: [bn-citw] Flat Top - the game
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