Naval War (1979)

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Designer	S. Craig Taylor Neil Zimmerer
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Publisher	Avalon Hill Battleline
Year Published	1979
# of Players	3 − 9
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 5 players Recommended with 4, 5, 6, 7 players (4 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	45 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	8 and up (2 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet (2 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Wargames (7 voters) [vote]
Category	Card Game Nautical Wargame World War II
Mechanic	Hand Management
Expansion	Cards at Sea
Expands	Cards at Sea
Family	Naval Battles
Primary Name	Naval War
Alternate Names	Naval War
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Players control a task force of historic WWII Ships. The object is to sink 100 points worth of the other player's ships. The game comes with 2 decks of cards: The Ship Deck contains 54 cards and the Play Deck contains 108 cards. The Play Deck contains your ammunition for your ships. Ammunition must match the gun sizes of your ships to be usefull. Other cards in the Play Deck are: smoke screen, repair cards, additional damage, sub attack, mine field, mine sweeper additional ship cards and the dreaded destroyer squadron card. This game is rate 1 (easy) on the AH complexity scale of 1 to 10.

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Part of the Naval War family of games:

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The GENERAL Vol.19,No.6
- Naval War – “Naval War, A Change of Pace from AH” (Commentary) Terry Dotson

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Year: 1983

Size: 8.66 x 5.91 x 1.06 inches

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Battleline Red Box edition

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Year: 1979

Product Code: 8958

Size: 12.00 x 12.00 x 1.25 inches

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