Securing the Narrow Sea: The Dover Patrol 1914-1918

摘要

Older readers may remember a board game called 'Dover Patrol' which they played with their friends on the playroom floor in days long past. Each side had a base to protect and a 'fleet' to attack the enemy or to defend one's own 'waters'. The different units of your 'fleet', represented by pieces of pasteboard in a bright metal stand, ranged from a 'Fleet Flagship' (a dreadnought and valued at 10 points) down to a 'Patrol Craft' (1 point). There were also other assets, a submarine (E3), a seaplane, and a mine. If your reviewer's memory serves, the mine couldn't move, but any opposing piece which attacked it, regardless of value, was lost: and the submarine which could move and itself attack an enemy piece had a similar effect.