Trireme (1980)

Board wargame covering ancient naval combat between 494 B.C. to 370 A.D.

Players control fleets of one or more ships and try to destroy their opponents fleet using ancient ramming tactics.

There are 225 different ships counters in the game, divided between 24 different classes of ships. There are also many game marker counters. There is one Game Tables Card, one 40 page rules booklet, two different Log Sheet Pads and eight 8 1/2"x10 1/2" mapboards depicting blue water with an hexagonal overlay.

TRIREME ARTICLE LIST

GENERAL Magazine
General Vol.19, #4

Peloponnesian War, Scenario 22, Scenarios for Trireme: Rex A. Martin (Variant)
General Vol.22, #1

Heavy Weapons for Trireme, Variant 19, Arms Race in the Mediterranean, 300 BC: Ralph Slesinski (Variant)

PAPER WARS Magazine
Paper Wars #26

Trireme: Review: R. Lindsay (Review)

from "The Avalon Hill General Index and Company History, 1952-1980"

Trireme (1979)
Avalon Hill revised existing published design (Battleline)
Designed by Ed Smith
Development by Arnold Hendrick

AH revisions will be minor additions to rules only.

• The GENERAL Vol.19,No.4
  • Trireme – “The First Phase of The Peloponnesian War - Additional Scenerios for Trireme” (Variant) Rex A. Martin
  • Trireme - Counters and Map Overlay (Insert) Rex A. Martin