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Expansion for Harpoon V: Modern Tactical Naval Combat 1955 - 2020
Commonwealth Navies: Ships of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand 1955 - 2023
2024
Rules assistance for Commonwealth Navies: Ships of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand 1955 - 2023
Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.
- 2–8 players
Rules assistant for Commonwealth Navies: Ships of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand 1955 - 2023
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Commonwealth Navies: Ships of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand 1955 - 2023 is an expansion for Harpoon V: Modern Tactical Naval Combat 1955 - 2020 released in 2024 for 2–8 players. It was designed by Larry Bond and Chris Carlson and its main mechanics are Dice Rolling, Paper-and-Pencil, and Simulation.
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About the game
Commonwealth Navies lists all the British, Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand warships in service between 1955 and the present day. It is designed as a sourcebook for Harpoon, fifth edition, but it can also be used as a general reference. Organized as a collection of annexes, Annex A provides statistics on ships as built, and any modifications and refits over time, sometimes many times. Annexes C and on give detailed weapons and sensors characteristics, including guns, missiles, ASW weapons, radars, sonars, with all the information needed to use them in a Harpoon scenario. A new feature of this edition is information on air groups used by aviation ships. Annex R, by Andy Doty, is the most complete list available anywhere, and provides data on units, aircraft types, and number of aircraft for each deployment. In addition to real-world platforms, many canceled or proposed ships and their systems are also described. The book also provides information on land-based surface-to-air missiles system specifications and organization. Supplemental annexes list ship classifications and factors used to convert weapons and sensor information into game data. -description from publisher's website
Designers
Publishers
- Admiralty Trilogy Group
Questions and answers
Commonwealth Navies: Ships of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand 1955 - 2023 supports 2–8 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.
Commonwealth Navies: Ships of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand 1955 - 2023 belongs to these categories: Wargame, Miniatures, and Nautical. Its main mechanics are Dice Rolling, Paper-and-Pencil, and Simulation. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Commonwealth Navies: Ships of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand 1955 - 2023 are: Larry Bond and Chris Carlson. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Commonwealth Navies: Ships of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand 1955 - 2023 as an expansion for Harpoon V: Modern Tactical Naval Combat 1955 - 2020. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need Harpoon V: Modern Tactical Naval Combat 1955 - 2020 to use it. Check that your edition of Harpoon V: Modern Tactical Naval Combat 1955 - 2020 is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.