'Anyone Remember Action Stations?

[toolsey2]

Hello
Glad it was right one, yes I had it on floppies cost me £29 quid, great manual, funnily enough been thinking recently of getting it going and using miniatures and having it as some sort of solitaire wargame with paper campaign rules, because there is not a lot of PC Naval wargames about.

[Nerazzurri]

Originally Posted by toolsey2

Hello
Glad it was right one, yes I had it on floppies cost me £29 quid, great manual, funnily enough been thinking recently of getting it going and using miniatures and having it as some sort of solitaire wargame with paper campaign rules, because there is not a lot of PC Naval wargames about.

Sounds great. You still have a floppy drive?! Did you experience the programme crashes? I wonder if it was just my mates PC.

That's right, the manual was good.

I've been thinking the same for ages about the lack of proper wargames, rather than sims/strats. How would you use it along with paper rules? Wouldn't the programme dictate your rules for the miniatures?

[Nerazzurri]

Toolsey -

downloaded it (got the manual too in a text document) and an emulator. Couldn't believe it - worked first time, no faffing about!

I'm so happy. Just when I re-installed SH3 after 2 years too. Need to split my time between them. SH3 is slowly coming back to me, but AS will have to be re-learned!

I suppose it's actually quite embarrassing that I can get so excited about a text based game

[toolsey2]

Hi Nerazzuri
sorry bit late replying daughters/grandaughter birthdays got in way, only external floppy drive now but would use download, is it easy to set up in dosbos and does it play ok, also have you seen dosgames Action in the North Atlantic and battle of Midway similar style of graphics available as abandonware I think they are even older than Action stations, as I have got older I get nostalgic for all sorts of things her indoors calls junk.

The thing about what rules to use, I hadn't really thought about it but the very minimum I think would be to use miniatures on a board for situatonal awareness during battles and perhaps cards for each ship to mark off damage,
do you remember concentric circles when a magazine exploded.
I also like fighting steel which has surface battles only no subs or aircraft like Action stations, there is some downloads for that that are very good
cheers

[Nerazzurri]

Originally Posted by toolsey2

Hi Nerazzuri
sorry bit late replying daughters/grandaughter birthdays got in way

Don't be silly, no problem.

is it easy to set up in dosbos and does it play ok, also have you seen dosgames Action in the North Atlantic and battle of Midway similar style of graphics available as abandonware I think they are even older than Action stations

I downloaded AS here, and the D-Fend emulator mentioned on this page here. I just followed the instructions at the bottom of the 'how to' page and everything went fine, first time.

No, but I'll check them out now you've mentioned them.

do you remember concentric circles when a magazine exploded.
I also like fighting steel which has surface battles only no subs or aircraft like Action stations, there is some downloads for that that are very good
cheers

No, LOL. Thanks, I'll look at that too mate.

[Nerazzurri]

Toolsey, question -

can't see anything in the manual about the visual range of aircraft for spotting, you any knowledge on this?

I've been moving the aircraft just ahead of my target, but I need to check and then enter the co-ordinates every turn - bit of a pain.

Cheers.

[Hitman]

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