'Anyone Remember Action Stations?

[Nerazzurri]

Does anybody remember a PC game called 'Battle Stations', around 20 (yes, twenty) years ago? It was set in WWII and involved surface ships from many nations.

A search just throws up results from newer games like 'Pacific' and 'Midway'. But I'm positive I have the correct name.

Thanks all.

Yeah I used to play this game on PS1 of my friend

Here it is

I loved it

[Nerazzurri]

I'm afraid not PK

It was even older than that. I think that one was just for consoles too?

Maybe I have the name wrong, but I'm positive it was Battle Stations.

[toolsey2]

Hello
Could it have been Action stations?
it had very basic graphics
cheers

[Nerazzurri]

Originally Posted by toolsey2

Hello
Could it have been Action stations?
it had very basic graphics
cheers

YES IT COULD! Fantastic, mate! Thank you very much. Damn, was sure it was Battle Stations. Did you ever play it?

Here's how I remember it. I was into Naval wargaming, with cast miniatures; and this game was a good reproduction of that for PC. The only trouble was if you used too many guns LOL. So me and my mate used to stick to a ships primary armament; if you used secondary and tertiary too the game disentegrated in front of your eyes!

I'd love to try it again; maybe the fault would go away now too with slightly more powerful hardware than was available in 1990 LOL. In case someone wants to give it a go here's a link. Screenshots at that link too if you just want a nosey. There's others too if you Google.

Thanks again Toolsey! I can't believe I got the name wrong.

[toolsey2]

Hello
Glad it was right one, yes I had it on floppies cost me £29 quid, great manual, funnily enough been thinking recently of getting it going and using miniatures and having it as some sort of solitaire wargame with paper campaign rules, because there is not a lot of PC Naval wargames about.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by PapaKilo

Yeah I used to play this game on PS1 of my friend

Here it is

I loved it

That looks a lot like Navy Field!

[simple nuke]

I still play this after all these years. It was my first simulation. It is basically a computerized version of a miniatures game, Battle Stations.

BTW, you do not need to use any type of DOS emulator, as this game will run just fine as-is on XP or Win 7. Just click on the BATTLE box in the AS folder.