SALVO! Game Series
WW2 SALVO! EUROPEAN THEATER, 2nd ed. is a solitaire, tactical naval strategy wargame that enables players to recreate World War II naval battles between individual allied and axis warships on the table top.
The design uses the Salvo! game system, adapted to a WW2 setting. (Great War Salvo! 3rd ed. is its World War I counterpart.)
The second edition is a full-color 52-page rule booklet, containing all rules, game tables, advanced rules and options, 17 historical scenarios, and designer's notes. Game components make up the pages of the PDF, with Scenario Cards, Reference Card, Sea Display, and significantly, this new edition now has twelve warship counter sheets (sections #1-12), including ships from Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Finland, and the Soviet Union... 216 ship counters in all, drawn to scale. Using historically rated warships (BB, BC, PB, CA, CL, AMC types), rated in a variety of offensive and defensive categories, players can assess at a glance the relative strengths and weaknesses of each ship. NOTE: The first edition of this game was called Advanced Salvo! European Theater. The Salvo! game system remains the same, but with new name and more components and scenarios in full-color format.
WW2 Salvo! European Theater, 2nd ed. is primarily a ship-vs-ship solitaire game, but rules are included for two-players as well, with one or multiple ships on a side. All the major warships from each country are provided (see list below), allowing players to recreate any number of actual and hypothetical Second World War encounters.
The game may be played with the supplied counters, or your own ship miniatures. The game is adaptable to miniatures play on the table top, with scales of one turn equaling several minutes of real time, and each range band representing approximately 5000 yards (2.5 nautical miles).
WW2 Salvo! European Theater, 2nd ed. is now available. If you enjoyed the first edition, published in 2015), you'll no doubt like this new edition and what it has to offer.
LIST OF INDIVIDUALLY RATED SHIP COUNTERS INCLUDED
GERMANY: BB: Bismarck, Tirpitz. BC: Scharnhorst, Gneisenau. PB: Graf Spee, Adm. Scheer, Lutzow. CA: Prinza Eugen, Adm Hipper, Blucher. CL: Nurnberg, Konigsberg, Koln, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Emden. AMC: Kormoran, Atlantis, Widder, Komet, Thor, Coronel, Orion.
FRANCE: BB: Bretgne, Provence, Lorraine, Richlieu, Jean Bart. BC: Dunkerque, Strasbourg. CA: Duquesne, Tourville, Suffren, Foch, Colbert, Dupleix. CL: Gloire, Galissonniere, Jean de Vienne, Marseillaise, Montcalm, Leygues, Bertin, Jeanne d'Arc, Duguay Trouin, Lamotte-Picquet, Primaguet. AMC: Aramis.
ITALY: BB: Cavour, Cesare, Duilio, Andria Doria, Littorio, Roma, Vittorio Veneto. CA: Bolzano, Zara, Pola, Gorizia, Fiume, Trento, Trieste. CL: Abruzzi, Garibaldi, Duca d'Aosta, Savoia, Montecuccoli, Attendolo, Giussano, Barbiano, Bande Nere, Colleoni, Cadorna, Diaz, Pompeo, Regolo, Scip. Africano, Germanico. AMC: Ramb I.
GREAT BRITAIN: BB: King George V, Prince of Wales, Anson, Duke of York, Howe, Nelson, Rodney, Resolution, Revenge, Ramillies, Royal Oak, Royal Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth, Warspite, Valiant, Malaya, Barham. BC: Hood, Renown, Repulse. CA: Kent, Cumberland, Suffolk, Berwick, Cornwall, Australia, Canberra, London, Susses, Devonshire, Shropshire, Norfolk, Dorsetshire, Exeter, York. CL: Leander, Ajax, Achilles, Neptune, Orion, Perth, Hobart, Sydney, Arethusa, Galatea, Aurora, Penelope, Southampton, Glasgow, Sheffield, Birmingham, Newcastle, Gloucester, Manchester, Liverpool, Belfast, Edinburgh, Dido, Argonaut, Hermione, Sirius, Euryalus, Fiji, Kenya, Nigeria, Newfoundland, Bellona, Black Prince, Spartan, Charybdis, Uganda, Jamaica, Scylla, Ceylon, Diadem, Naiad, Bermuda, Royalist, Phoebe, Trinidad, Swiftwure, Bonaventure, Gambia, Ontario, Cleopatra, Mauritius. AMC: Rawalpindi, Asturias, Cilicia, Cathay, Forfar, Jervis Bay, Letitia, Voltaire, Alacantara.
FINLAND: B: Vainamoinen, Illmarinen.
SOVIET UNION: CA: Kalinin, Kirov, Voroshilov, Molitov, Gorky, Kaganovich. CL: Kavkaz, Krim.
WHAT'S NEW IN THIS 2ND EDITION: 216 ship counters (up from 144); new scenarios; two new nationalities (Finland, Soviet Union); full color rules and components throughout.
Great War Salvo! 3rd Edition is a strategy, solitaire, tactical naval wargame that enables players to recreate early World War I naval battles between individual British and German warships on the table top. This is the new, latest edition of this game system.
The game consists an illustrated, color 52-page rule book that contains all rules, optional rules, and game components (12 warship counter sheets (1 through 9, A, B, & C) rendered in color at 1/6000 scale; game markers; Reference Card; historical scenarios, and designer's notes The warship counters (336 in all, BB, BC, B, AC, CL, AMC types), are rated in a variety of offensive and defensive categories, allowing players can assess at a glance the relative strengths and weaknesses of each ship. Ships from Great Britain, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Russia, Turkey, the United States, Japan, Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands are included.
Great War Salvo! is primarily a ship vs ship solitaire game, but rules are included for two-player as well as solitaire play, with one ship or multiple ships on a side. The rule book contains all standard and optional rules needed to play, game tables, fourteen scenarios, and Designer's Notes.
With the launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906, warship construction was revolutionized. Great powers competed to complete fleets of the new design. With the arrival of the Great War, Great Britain and Germany possessed the largest battle fleets among the antagonists, and armed encounters were soon taking place around the world: Coronel... the Falklands... Emden vs Sydney... Heligoland Bight... the flight of the Goeben... Dogger Bank... hypothetical encounters in the Adriatic, and more. Great War Salvo! enables you to refight these historical battles as well as hypothetical ones in a variety of settings, all the while emphasizing the Minden design emphasis of playability and historicity.
What's new in the 3rd edition: This is an enlarged edition, similar to the 2nd ed. except adding the long-awaited Mediterranean counter sheets (#3 and #4), an additional counter sheet of British ships (#9), and a new Additional Ship sheet (C). In addition, new optional rules and scenarios have been provided, all now in a full-color book. (Upgrade Set: If you own GWS! 2nd ed. and wish to purchase only the new chip counter sheets, you may buy the GWS! 3rd ed. upgrade set, available separately. Note that this contains only the four new counters sheets; no rules or new scenarios are included.)
In print since 2019, Great War Salvo! 3rd ed. is the definitive version of this popular World War I solitaire naval game, and is sure to delight naval gamers of all stripes.
Salvo! Deluxe is simply two games -- Great War Salvo! 3rd ed, and WW2 Salvo! European Theater -- in a single volume. This therefore covers both WW1 and WW2 naval combat, using the Salvo! game system.
This is a full-color 106-page book, containing both the aforementioned games, but at a special price.
Since naval combat changed from WW1 to WW2, the ship ratings, rules, and tables for each game have been designed to simulate each particular World War. This means that the rated ships Great War Salvo! are not compatible with those in WW2 Salvo!
Sample WW2 Salvo! Ships
Sample Great War Salvo! Ships
