Quote Originally Posted by HMS Lydia View Post
...Played a lot of Harpoon (up to the 4th addition, which is totally unplayable mumbo-jumbo IMHO)....
the authors are good freinds of mine so I wouldn't use those terms myself but I must admit I prefer rather more simple sets for modern naval. The old Skytrex rules were our "go to" set in the school club, and in recent years I've used a modern variant of General Quarters which seems to work quite well.