A&A Game Engineering

$15

High school up

moderate

US or European history

variable, one person/ship

definitely

2-4 hours

90 minutes

variable

This requires one of two things–>money to purchase ship miniatures -OR- time, which can be used to xerox/create ship silhouettes. For a classroom budget, silhouettes are probably more efficient, and students could even be assigned creating the silhouettes, researching ships, etc. before playing. For an added twist, anyone who has a ship sunk has to have their assignment torn up! This recreates hesitation at throwing ships in to battle willy-nilly and creates a very realistic hesitation.