Victory at Sea (game)

Victory at Sea (game)

:"This article is about the wargame "Victory at Sea" created by Mongoose Publishing. For the 1952 documentary from which it takes its name, see "Victory at Sea".

"Victory at Sea" (abbreviated to "VAS") is a set of World War II naval wargaming rules published by Mongoose Publishing. They were a development of Mongoose's "" SF starship combat rules written by Matthew Sprange, with assistance from David Manley, Richard Bax, Erik Nicely and Agis Neugebauer, having been initially released through a series of articles in the Mongoose house journal "Signs and Portents". A supplement to the rules entitled "Victory At Sea - Order of Battle", including expanded ship lists and new rules, was written during 2007. It was rushed into print, unreviewed and with a large number of errors left uncorrected - an unofficial 28 page errata was available several days after its release was announced. The rules have spawned a number of unofficial period and scale variants including ironclad actions and WW2 destroyer actions. [ [http://www.btinternet.com/~david.manley/naval/VAS/VAS.html Victory at Sea ] ] An official World War I variant entitled Victory at Sea - Age of Dreadnoughts is being developed by David Manley for possible publication in late 2007 or early 2008. [ [http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/forum.php Mongoose Publishing : For All Your Gaming Needs ] ]

"VAS" caused something of a storm when it was released in 2006. It was reviled by some elements of the naval wargaming hobby as being over simplistic and unrealistic, resulting in some poor press on various warmaning fora (e.g. NavWarGames, and in the Naval Wargames Society journal "Battlefleet"). However, despite this a number of discussions on various internet wargaming fora have suggested that it has proven to be popular and serves as a useful "entry level" set of rules and also as a gateway into historical naval wargaming for science fiction and fantasy wargamers who are already familiar with rules published by Mongoose.

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External links

* [http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/miniature/series.php?qsSeries=41 "Victory at Sea"] at Mongoose Publishing
* [http://www.btinternet.com/~david.manley/naval/VAS/VAS.html Historical variants site]
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* [http://www.victorycommand.com/ Victory Command, a Fan Site]


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