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War Galley: Naval Warfare in the Ancient World

War Galley: Naval Warfare in the Ancient World

GMT Games · 1999
1–2360 min14+ yrs3.1/5 complexity7.1 BGG#6.796 BGG1,2 KCouplesStrategy
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(from GMT website): War Galley is the seventh volume in the multi-award winning Great Battles of History (GBoH) series, but the first to venture entirely into the waters of the Mediterranean Sea.

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War Galley: Naval Warfare in the Ancient World box art
official art · GMT Games

(from GMT website):

War Galley is the seventh volume in the multi-award winning Great Battles of History (GBoH) series, but the first to venture entirely into the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. It is also the first historical boardgame published, in two decades, to address galley warfare. As such, GMT's War Galley is almost a complete history for this era of war at sea.

What is best about War Galley is how easy it is to play -- the rules are about half the length of the usual GBoH game -- and that means that most battles can be complete in several hours, at the most. The battles themselves, cover all aspects of galley tactics, from the line against line of big ships at Salamis (Cyprus), to the Chase, Turn and Fight of Chios, to the Line Astern vs. Line Abreast at Side, to probably the most unusual of all ancient battles, the Roman arrowhead against the Carthaginian Lines Astern at Drepanum in 249 B.C.

War Galley wars and battles covered by the scenarios are:

 Ionian Revolt- Lade, 494 BC
 Peloponnesian War- Arginusae, 406 BC
 The Silician Wars- Catana, 397 BC
 The First Successor War- Salamis, 306 BC (Cyprus)
 The First Punic War
     Ecnomus, 256 BC
     Drepanum, 249 BC
     Aegatian Islands, 242 BC 

 The Macedonian Wars- Chios, 201 BC
 The War with Antiochus
     Side, 190 BC
     Myonessus, 190 BC 

 The Civil War
     Tauris, 47 BC
     Naulochus, 36 BC
     Actium, 31 BC
🔬 game anatomy
Complexity3.1 / 5
BGG rating7.1 / 10
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CouplesStrategy
Language dependence
Some text — easily memorized
🌐 plays without English
Play time
360 min
Players
1–2
Recommended age
14+ yrs
BGG rank
#6.796

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War Galley: Naval Warfare in the Ancient World is played by 1–2 players.
Q5How long does a game of War Galley: Naval Warfare in the Ancient World take?
A game of War Galley: Naval Warfare in the Ancient World takes about 360 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
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War Galley: Naval Warfare in the Ancient World is recommended from age 14.
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War Galley: Naval Warfare in the Ancient World has a BoardGameGeek complexity of 3.1 out of 5.
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