Fire When Ready

What is Fire When Ready

NAVAL WARGAMES RULES FOR PRE-DREADNOUGHT ACTIONS

Fire When Ready covers actions with pre-dreadnoughts. They come with a set of rules for creating your game statistics for your vessels using published sources such as "Jane’s" or "Conway’s".

The rules features an choice of game systems. The "Duel" Game is intended for use with a small number of ships and each ship has a captain and crew generated individually. The "Battle" system is for large battles such as Tsushima and ships operate in formations, each of which has a Commander and ships' crew ratings are generated for a formation.

There are alternative gunnery systems offering simultaneous effects (which can be used with the "Duel" Game) or sequential effects based on initiative, in which shooting follows in order of initiative (highest scores shoot first) and where damage is applied immediately (this can be used in either game system).

Game details

Players

2

Age

+12

Duration

—

Difficulty

—

Type

Board game

Year

2008

Mechanics

Dice Rolling · Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game · Simulation

Categories

Book · Miniatures · Nautical

Designer

David Manley

Publisher

A & A Game Engineering