Tabletop games
Don't Give Up the Ship!
Guidon Games, 1972
Don't Give Up the Ship! is a tabletop game published by Guidon Games in 1972. It is played with 2 players, from age 12 and in about 120 minutes.
- players
- 2
- minutes
- 120
- years
- 12+
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The box
- Publishers
- Guidon Games, Tactical Studies Rules (TSR)
- Designers
- Dave Arneson, Mike Carr, Gary Gygax
- Artwork
- Don Lowry
- Year of release
- 1972
About the game
Don't Give Up the Ship is a set of rules for conducting Napoleonic era naval wargames. The game was published by Guidon Games in 1972 and republished by TSR, Inc. in 1975. The game was developed as a collaboration between Dave Arneson, Gary Gygax, and Mike Carr. It was the first collaboration between Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax, the co-authors of Dungeons & Dragons. Mike Carr edited the rules and researched the historical single ship actions that are included as game scenarios.More from Guidon Games
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