Task Forces and Convoys is COPYRIGHTED -- NOT Public Domain -- and FREE under the following conditions:

• Schools, libraries, and museums are free to make and keep copies for in-house educational use or nonpermanent loan/circulation ... in gratitude for the fine education and research assistance I have always received from such institutions.
• An individual is free to make one personal copy of Task Forces and Convoys: A Naval Chess Game for his/her own personal use.
• All other rights -- including publishing rights -- are reserved to me.

Dedication:

Task Forces and Convoys: A Naval Chess Game is dedicated to ...
A. Our Allied - including Grand Alliance Chinese and Russian - including my father Bob Coatney (USAAF CBI) and uncles Homer Coatney (USN CBs) and John Burgett (USN USS Moray SS-300) - servicepeople who defeated Axis aggression in World War 2.
B. My children Rebecca, Robert, Rohan, and Johanna, in the hope that they may never have to go through a world war:
C. And especially to Johanna Grace Coatney, whose enthusiasm for simple hidden-piece games inspired me to design this one.

The more we learn about the Second World War, the better our chances that it will be the LAST world war.

War should be confined to history books and games.

Final draft of ALL the games' rules in Rich Text Format. Rvsd 2May19 - giving cruisers a slightly better small chance against battleship, if they survive, that is. The Basic Game's rules - at the start of these - were too short to upload separately. Convoy PQ17 and Nord Kapp (Scharnhorst's sinking) has been added to the Historical game.

The Basic Game Charts:

• The 7-square square chart, really for the Basic game. Use 7 ship markers - 1 to 3 of them convoys - from the Classic Game's units.
• A 4-hex-on-a side hexagonal chart for the Basic Game. Use 5 ship markers - 1 or 2 of them convoys, and note the contrast with the squares chart.

• Stand Up U.S. and Japanese Task Forces and Convoys ship and air units ... so you don't need to buy standup clips for your cardboard-backed pieces. Print onto heavy cardstock/cover stock paper for scoring the fold lines, scissoring, folding, and gluing. Rvsd 9 Jul18 - added South Dakota.
• Stand Up British, German, and Italian Task Forces and Convoys ship and air units ... Russian and French ships coming ... so you don't need to buy standup clips for your cardboard-backed pieces. Print onto heavy cardstock/cover stock paper for scoring the fold lines, scissoring, folding, and gluing. I've added Norwegian destroyer(s) Stord, Svenner, and Arendal and Norwegian Merchant Marine pieces.
• More Stand Up American, British, Japanese, French, and Russian Task Forces and Convoys ship and air units ... so you don't need to buy standup clips for your cardboard-backed pieces. Print onto heavy cardstock/cover stock paper for scoring the fold lines, scissoring, folding, and gluing. 5Jul18
• And yet more Stand Up American, a few British, Japanese, German, and Italian Task Forces and Convoys ship and air units ... Russian and French ships coming ... so you don't need to buy standup clips for your cardboard-backed pieces. Print onto heavy cardstock/cover stock paper for scoring the fold lines, scissoring, folding, and gluing. 5Jul18
• The flat-lying Task Forces and Convoys ship and air units menu which includes WW2 Russian, Italian, German, French, and British ships for selection in a classic game. Rvsd 10May18. The Dummy units are for when secretly selecting carriers, since those count as 2 ship units for selection.
• The 7-hexagons-on-an-edge hexagonal chart - recommended.
• The top half of the hex chart board, for a sufficiently large sheet.
• The bottom half of the hex chart board, for a sufficiently large sheet.
• The top left half of the hex chart board, for an even bigger chart board.
• The top right half of the hex chart board.
• The bottom left half of the hex chart board.
• The bottom right half of the hex chart board.

• Other, flat-lying alternative ships for selection within their types on the Classic Game menu or for use with an historical scenario. Note that French superbattleship Richelieu has been added and there are more ships are to come.

More comments by myself and others about the game can be read on Talk Consimworld Com and BoardGameGeek.

If you are a friend, and/or if you would like to share info and ideas about military and naval history and game designing and cardstock model shipbuilding, and/or you have any questions about Task Forces and Convoys: A Naval Chess Game feel free to e-mail me at ELCOAT@Hotmail.com

Thank you for your interest in the game ....

30Apr18, rvsd 2May19