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Updated 5th February 2013

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All our products are available to purchase on-line as downloadable PDF files from our partner organisation, Wargame Vault, details of which can be found on our download page. You can navigate to their site via the links shown on the page.

What's New ?

Stations Manned and Ready II

We are pleased to finally be able to say that Stations Manned and Ready Edition II is ready for imminent release. In real terms this means early in 2013. The rules are made up from the following components:

• The Main Rule Book

• Game Template Booklet (free)

• Maritime Aircraft Data Booklet (free)

• Ship Data catalogue (free)

• Ship Data "Glossary" Booklet (free)

• Merchant Vessel Booklet (free)

In order to play the game you will require in addition:

Either

• Ship Data Booklets (have to be purchased - see below)

Or

• A "Taster" Battle Booklet. A series of these covering all periods will be released over the course of the next year. (Some will be free, others have to be purchased). The "Taster" Battles include the Ship Data sheets and Aircraft data required.

Optionally:

• Aircraft Data Booklet (has to be purchased)

The Ship and Aircraft Data sets are available to purchase separately on "the Vault".

The national data sets for France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States, as well as Other Nations, are split into three segments by date (1885-1905, 1906-1925 and 1926 to 1945). The split allows you to purchase the sets which you want for the period you enjoy. If the data for a ship is valid for more than one date segment it will appear in each appropriate set.

We would like to emphasise that what we are providing here are the actual game data sheets for use in the game. There will be no need to transfer data from printed page to a record sheet any more (apart from destroyer names... we are not so mad that we have done a sheet for every single small ship). For the number crunchers among you there are 3477 separate ship data sheets in the database. These allow for all the reconstructions that took place, as well as other changes due to different crew quality as time progresses.

The aircraft data set has been extensively revised and holds over 1800 sets of aircraft data from 1914 to 1945. Rather than limit the data to maritime aircraft we decided to present all the viable warplanes of the period. The player can choose to provide air cover for his game if he wishes.

Follow this link for more information.

Stations Manned and Ready 2nd Edition

Game Data Errata

While every effort has been taken to ensure that the data is correct, some parts have required manual data input, and it is inevitable that some typos may creep in. Some have already been spotted. Data errata can be found by going to this page:

Stations Manned and Ready 2nd Edition Errata

Important note...

Following the full release of the Second Edition of Stations Manned and Ready, the data download sets for the first edition will be removed after about 6 months, as these are incompatible. The very first data sets for the 1st Edition have now been removed.

Air Combat Operations

In light of the work done on the above, our aspiration for a quick release of Air Combat Operations has fallen by the wayside. This is in part fortuitous because work on SMR II provided some useful tweaks that can be applied to ACO. As a guesstimate we reckon that ACO would be ready by mid-2013. The draft requires some re-writing, and the original data algorithms which allowed for one data set from 1914 to now will largely be dumped. We have decided that three periods will be required: up to the widespread use of the fixed wing monoplane (ca 1935), up to the introduction of the air to air missile (1956), and up the current times.

... and we thought we had retired...

Print on Demand

Wargame Vault have now also introduced a Print on Demand facility, which enables the customer to purchase a printed copy of a product, rather than the customer having to download and print it himself. Some customers prefer to have a "hard copy" of the product. This facility is supported by printers in the USA and Great Britain, who print and deliver the product direct to you. The customer must bear in mind that a printed copy will cost more than the PDF download, and there will be a postage cost.

Having gone down the digital road ourselves for practical reasons, including the inability to haul heavy loads of paper round the country, this new possibility is attractive to us, because we would not be required to hold large stocks of a product. The customer can order his single copy, via the Wargame Vault.

Setting up the Print on Demand files will take some time, and we will prioritise certain products. If you have a priority wish list please let us know.

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