All the Ships

All the Ships

Designer: Michael Fischer
Publisher: The Mad Game-Designer's 2nd Page
Type: Miniatures, Miscellaneous, Wargame
Status: Free
Available from: http://www.cke1st.com/m_games4.htm

Not a game, but a set of counters for naval battles. If you ever wanted to re-enact Jutland or Leyte Gulf, but your budget for miniatures limited you to the Monitor vs the Virginia, your ships have come in! I'm recreating every major warship that existed from the 1890's to the end of WWII, plus many ships that were started but never finished, or proposed but never built. They are sized for standard hex maps, but they're also suitable for games that use more realistic movement.

They're all to the same scale (roughly 1:9600, or 1 pixel = 8 feet). All ships are drawn as originally built. I used Conway's as my source for ship dimensions and completion dates, and Jane's for overhead views. Counters have a 2-digit year in the upper right corner, which is the year the first ship in that class became available. Some ships appear more than once, like ships that began life as one type but were converted to something else, or ships that were owned by more than one nation.