Tabletop Wargame Help

In naval, or other tabletop wargames, what does it mean when they say that a turn is equal to a certain amount of time?

Mostly Movement.Let’s say a Turn simulates 1 Minute of combat. Well how fast is your ship currently going? What is it’s ruder position? Is it accelerating or decelerating? Is it flooding? If so in how many spots and how quickly?All this stuff needs a time constraint, so you can decide that the Ship moved to here and dodged the torpedo or it only moved to there and got hit by said torpedo. Some games even go to lengths and (thankfully) include reload times. A 16′ Gun will only get 1 Shot per turn, but the 5′ ones on a destroyer or the Battleships 6′ secondary's get 2 a turn.Setting constraints for all this makes for a semi-realistic experience, a fun time but most importantly a precise rule-set that you can follow.

Board Games: Where in Delhi can you buy tabletop wargames like Axis and Allies and its rarer, more esoteric cousins?

List of Places to Buy Board Games in/For India | this thread is from 2011, but Blah games has moved from being hosted online to being an Amazon Z store. They carry lots of current games. Many cities will have some games available at the university level, especially if they have a sizable foreign student population. Otherwise, board games are going to be too expensive for indians to afford.

Is there any chance of an ASOAF tabletop RPG or wargame being published?

There already is and it's awesome. I've been playing it for a few months but it's been out for a few years. It has everything you would want. The party creates a house, you create unique characters and your goal is to gain power. All the characters you know and love are available as NPCs. Here is a link. https://greenronin.com/sifrp/

What is your favourite tabletop war game and why?

Ogre/GEV, by Steve Jackson Games.I’ve played it since it was a Metagaming title in a plastic pouch. A few years ago SJG ran a Kickstarter that became one of the most successful in history, bringing in almost a million dollars, which produced this titan of a gameMy son kicked in a huge amount to get me a copy of this and I love it.Now if only I could find someone to play it with me :-/Ogre Sixth EditionI love it because the mechanics are simple but the experience is visceral. So many tabletop war games get a player so mired in tables and cross references (I’m looking at you, almost every Avalon Hill war game ever written) that it’s more an exercise in bookkeeping than a game.Ogre also has a very strong solo game - your troops against an Ogre - that make it ideal (especially in ‘pocket’ editions) to take along, say, underway on a submarine for patrol.

What tabletop RPG or wargame has the most realistic (not necessarily the most detailed) combat?

IMO, Runequest. (my experience is with RQ editions 1–3) Its designers were longtime members of the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) and so has direct experience with medieval-style combat. In RQ, combat is quick and brutal. Attacks can be parried. Hits affect locations on the target’s body, with varying effects. Armour reduces damage taken rather than making it more difficult to hit in the first place. Hits can critical and a critical hit to a vital location from even a lowly trollkin with a spear (think kobold in D&D) can kill a runelord (think high level fighter in D&D).I also found the combat system for Classic Traveller (sci fi RPG) to be both elegantly simple and very reflective of the consequences of being hacked or shot at.

Is there a good tabletop miniature wargame with a ruleset that is reasonable for an 8-10 year old?

Could start with RISK, that’s what I played and thought “man this game is really limited” before picking up Warhammer 40k and D&D.There’s a more in depth way of playing Risk now called Risk Legacy.Actions in previous games permanently alter the board like founding new cities or blasting existing ones to rubble. It would also be a nice memory 10+ years from now to look back upon.Mordheim is something I wish was popular where I grew up, you customize a small warband so much more accessible than 40k which requires hordes of dudes and big outrageously overpriced vehicles.If you want your kid to play with someone other than you though you gotta see if there’s any wargaming community around you and see what they’re playing.I’ve also had a ton of fun with board games that involve moving little dudes around a grid like…Xia: Legends of a Drift SystemIt’s got a really neat mechanic where your spaceship has a hull in grids that determines how many tetris block shaped ugrades you can fit in.Only one person needs to own the game so less of a barrier of entry than a wargame where everyone needs to spend $100+ to build up an army and another 100$ for the cases to haul them safely.Betrayal at the House on Haunted Hill is another great game to check out, you take turns drawing from a deck of ‘floor tiles’ to build up the haunted house everyone explores. It requires one person to know the rules well, but then they can run it for 8–10 year olds fine.I’ve also heard good things about Fantasy Flight’s X-Wing miniatures dog fighting game. But it’s also really stupidly expensive for how limited in detail the tiny soft plastic miniatures are.