Ancient Naval Warfare

Simple naval miniatures rules for fleet battles in the Diodochi (Alexandrian Successors) period.

January 2012: having just read “The Age of Titans – The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies,” by William M Murray, I have revised these rules (Revision 3).

Pdf file for Diodochi rules.

Draft (Revision 1.3) of simple naval miniatures rules for fleet battles in the Peloponnesian War.

Pdf file for Delos rules.

Models are by Navwar and Langton.

Squadrons entering battle area in line ahead (column).

Deploying into line abreast.

Flanking maneuver by the light ships of the red fleet.

Things get serious.

The entire collection. Models are Navwar, Langton, CinC, Valiant (1/900 used for larger classes in 1/1200) and scratchbuilt.