This version of the rules includes:
- A period summary of the rules.
- A quick start set of Fred Jane rules (by kind permission of Bob Cordery of Wargame Developments).
- The original rules.
- The Royal Navy Wargaming Rules (1921)
- Access to pre-prepared ship profile cards. (I only have uploaded a few currently, but will do more)
- The complete text of the Fred Jane Classic Book, Your Navy as a Fighting Machine
'Various versions of the Fred Jane Naval War Game have been available from a variety of sources over the years, but in this edition John Curry has published what is probably the most well known and least complicated of these versions. Not only that, but he has also included a fast-play 'get-to-know-how-it-works' version of the basic rules AND the Royal Navy Wargame (1921) AND the text of Fred Jane's 1914 'Your Navy as a Fighting Machine'. Any one of these makes this book worth buying; together they make it essential reading for anyone interested in naval wargames of this period.'
Comments on the book from Richard Brooks, the well known military historian. October 2008
'I do like the cover with its smoke filled room at the George.
I think the mixture of Bob Cordery's cut down game and the 1905-06 game and the RN's 1920's game is good value as it allows the wargamer to do the Russo-Japanese and First World Wars. The original 1898 version is much more limited in scope. Its interesting he says it is unlikely any 15inch gun Dreadnougts will see action (tho he mentions the Q Elizabeth). Clearly he shared the short war illusion when he wrote, tho' from his newspaper column he had changed his mind by Feb 1915.'
