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Operation Sea Lion was a major wargame conducted at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1974. Its aim was to find out what might have happened had Nazi Germany launched Operation Sea Lion, their planned invasion of southeast England during World War II, in September 1940.
Seelöwe is a two-player board wargame where one player controls German invasion forces, and the other the British defenders. The game posits that both the British Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force have been neutralized, leaving the English Channel free to be used by the Germans to transport reinforcements.
In 1980, Simulations Canada published a two-person board wargame about World War II naval combat in the North Atlantic titled Kriegsmarine.In 1989, the company released a text-only video game with the same title, although this was a very different game, being a single-player game from an operational rather than a tactical perspective. [3]
A strategy game of naval warfare in the World War II Pacific theater: Great Naval Battles III: Fury in the Pacific, 1941-1944: 1994: DOS A naval warfare strategy game: Great Naval Battles Vol. IV: Burning Steel, 1939-1942: 1995: DOS A naval warfare strategy game: Great Naval Battles 5: 1996: DOS
The first computerized wargaming system was the Navy Electronic Warfare Simulator, which became operational in 1958 at the US Naval War College. The computer system, being from the pre-microchip era, spanned three floors. The game rooms were designed to the resemble the command centers where the Navy coordinated its fleets.
Second World War at Sea is a tactical wargame series produced by Avalanche Press covering naval combat during World War II. The series is based on Avalanche Press' Great War at Sea. The two series share many features although they are separate both from a rules standpoint and a scale standpoint (see SOPAC below).
The focus of Great War at Sea series games features two levels of play: the "operational" game, where fleets move and conduct missions on a map of the area where the game takes place (this map uses "staggered squares"—technically a hex grid—presumably to save space as the squares are exactly the same size as the fleet counters, and only a few counters are on the board at a time); and the ...
A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a simulation of an armed conflict. [1] Wargaming may be played for recreation, to train military officers in the art of strategic thinking, or to study the nature of potential conflicts.