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Harpoon (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/300724/harpoon-v-modern-tactical-naval-combat-1955-2020 https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/300724/harpoon-v-modern
by mcguire 6y ago
Harpoon (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/300724/harpoon-v-modern-tactical-naval-combat-1955-2020 https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/300724/harpoon-v-modern-...) isn't necessarily the most complex of the games, but it's not the least complex either.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamecategory/1008/nautical/linkeditems/boardgamecategory?pageid=1&categoryfilter=1069 https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamecategory/1008/nautical/li... is a list of the modern naval games on BGG. Unfortunately, I didn't see anything that I recognize as a good game (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2073/sixth-fleet-modern-naval-combat-mediterranean https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2073/sixth-fleet-modern-... is popular, with the recent resurgence of late-Cold War games) and is not excessively complex.
If you go back to WWII, there are more options (and many more games). I'll just make one suggestion: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3670/battlewagon https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3670/battlewagon (A print-n-play edition is available from WargameVault.) (It's moistened Star Fleet Battles, if you know that game.)
Note: if you're talking about wargames in general, the sky's kinda the limit. How about another suggestion: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6544/battle-moscow https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6544/battle-moscow, which is old, but intended to be an introductory game, is freely available (https://grognard.com/bfm/game.html https://grognard.com/bfm/game.html), and has a really spiffy online verion (https://oberlabs.com/b4m/ https://oberlabs.com/b4m/).
- ghaff 6y agoThis is one of my favorite threads about a board wargame ever: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/371289/1914-jim-dunnigans-guided-tour-hell https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/371289/1914-jim-dunnigans-g... "This game should have been produced 55 years earlier and the General Staffs of the major combatants forced to play it at least 12 times before actually going to war. They may have been too old to begin a war at that point."