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Gearing Up To Play Naval Command - for 1982 Falklands

April 8, 2019

Tutoring 8

Skill 7

Idea 8

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Five more games played of AirWar C21. Really getting the hang of that game and how it can show the dynamics, advantages, and disadvantages on both sides in the Falklands air war.

Now switching over to the naval side. There will admittedly be a lot less here, honestly 95% of the “naval” war in the Falklands was one side or the other launching air strikes of one kind or another. So AirWar C21 will have a lot of that covered. That said, I’m also gearing up to use Naval Command system to play more of the operational aspect of the naval war.

Naval Command by Rory Crabb, available on Wargames Vault.

One of the maps I will use. Created myself, mostly in Photoshop. Naval Command is played on a 6 x 4 table, reflected here (72 x 48 grid). Scale is roughly 1" = 2 nautical miles. Stanley, capital of the Falklands, is in yellow. This map would only be for the initial Argentine invasion of March 31-April 1-April 2.

British warship counters. Please note these are APPROXIMATE. They are to scale, however, with the Hermes being just shy of 750'. The Naval Command game is usually played with 1:3000 ships (so HMS Hermes would be about 3" long)

Argentinian Ships. Yes, they had Type 42 destroyers as well. And it's no accident that their flagship Vienticinco de Mayo (25th of May) looks very British. Most of the other ships were former American or built in France.