Today I finally got my hands on my own copy of “Sea Battle Games” by P. Dunn, published by MAP in 1970, reprinted 1974.
This means that I can throw away the 88 photocopied sheets from a library copy that I have had for the last 15-20 years as a substitute. (Yes, I know it was not legal, but in those days it was very difficult to hunt down an out of print book.)
Amazingly the price I paid for a copy in good condition with a protective plastic cover over the dust cover was only four times the cover price 45 years ago! Even with postage added I paid only about 7 times the original price, which in my opinion is not bad.
When it was published the book cost about 3.5% of my net monthly salary. Today, even with postage added, it cost only about .075% of my net monthly pension.
I have always had a whim to play Chapter 9: “The Hypothetical World War Game”. Sadly I already have too many gaming projects to start this at present, but it might be tied in with my plan to refight on the wargame table the whole of World War Two, which started five years ago and has so far reached 4th September 1939!!!
Anyway, this evening I will commence reading the book.
General Whiskers' semi-historical wanderings 