In case anyone's curious, I'm going for 1/6000. I'm interested in books or online articles, the cheaper the better as this is a side hobby for the moment.

Part of that is understanding and internalizing gunnery advancements over the period, and understanding how squadron organization happened to gamify the experience and try to come up with an engine that allows players to easily build their own squadrons to play. I'm going for Star-Wars Armada level of complexity, with the ability to easily scale between two squadron engagements to doing Tsushima or jutland in a day. I mean, I have a lot of other questions as well, but I'm keen on focusing on these areas to make such a simulation accurate enough to be more interesting than say, Battleship. Signal flag messages? Command and control of squadrons in the predreadnought era. Naval tactics of the period, again with attention to specifics between the nations. Gunnery and technology developments in the period (with distinctions between the nations over that span of time) I'm particularly interested in finding sources that talk about / summarize: I'm interested in that span of history between 1895 into 1920. Have desire to design my own, need resources to voraciously consume to make such a tabletop game semi-accurate but easy to play. Noted a lot of the games seem to be mired in older simulation mechanics. Went looking for something to do with these minis. Then printed many (including designing my own, particularly for the U.S).

Have a 3D printer, browsed Thingverse out of boredom, found minis for the Russio-Japanese war. Let's see if I can make a long story short.

Download pre dreadnought for free