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Battlegame Book 5: Fighting Ships box art
1976 Ranked #16,059

Battlegame Book 5: Fighting Ships

Move pieces across a map while planning position and timing.

Wargames Book Medieval Point to Point Movement Series: Battlegame Books (Andrew McNeil)

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

7+

Complexity

1.67/5

Rating

6.77

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

This is Battlegame Book 5. The second half of the book contains 4 games, each with an A3 colour board, and monocolour pieces to cut out and assemble.

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This is Battlegame Book 5. The second half of the book contains 4 games, each with an A3 colour board, and monocolour pieces to cut out and assemble. The four games are: Viking Raids: find treasure on a hex grid of northern Europe. Silver Fleet: galleons between Spain and Cuba. Frigate: game simulating a naval battle. Battle for the "Med": WWII game about convoy missions in the Mediterranean.

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All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
30 min
Age
7+
Complexity
1.7/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Andrew McNeil

Publishers

2
Unipart Verlag Usborne

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