I bought this game in June 1967, as a high school graduation present to myself. A friend and I skipped the search portion and went straight to the full fleet battle game, which took us an entire weekend to play out on the tile floor in my family's basement. I had bruises on both knees for a week! My friend played the British. He had more ships but horrible luck rolling his dice, resulting in a win for my High Seas Fleet! One of my fondest 60's gaming memories.
Gilbert, Thanks. your videos are great introduction to Jutland. I liked your explanation of the "board game", search procedure and battle procedure. The acetate sheet on hit sheets was great too.
I had this game in the late 60's and loved it. One soon discovered in playing it that the Germans had an insurmountable problem facing them, which was: Their ships were very tough, but they were too badly outnumbered by the Royal Navy to win an all-out battle between the entirety of the 2 fleets. Their best hope was to "hit and run", meaning sink a few of the more vulnerable British ships (meaning the battle cruisers) and then get the hell out of there before the entire Grand Fleet had a chance to engage them. And that's pretty much what did happen at Jutland. There was no hope for the Germans in a protracted flight against the entire British battle line. And the old pre-dreadnoughts the Germans had might better have stayed home, I think, because they just weren't powerful enough to be fighting against dreadnoughts.
My friend Greg(RIP) and I use to play this game in the early 70s on the floor in the living room when we were kids. He bought the game at the same time that I had bought the Panzerblitz game. He also had the old game U Boat that was ordered from Avalon Hill. I bought and played the old Avalon Hill navy game Wooden Ships and Iron Men when it came out a few years later. Glibert, I haven't look at your channel before so I'm subscribing. I'll be watching your videos.
Beautiful ship counters...I'm a sucker for those. Best I ever saw/used were those included with Victory Games "Fleet Series". Jutland looks appealing to me for the separate Search and Battle procedures. Very unique...especially considering there's no board as such. Thanx again.
Funny you and I seem to have played and "missed" the opposite games back in the day (albeit your hay-day was a decade earlier than mine). I picked this up last year for the first time...I have yet to find anyone to toss dice with it yet, but I keep looking. Pity we did not know each other back then, we would have had the entire AH catalog covered between us.
Love the old AH games… though Midway was pretty sharp, played that one to death. Jutland was a challenge, and 1914 followed, especially in its complexity… (blind squares and dummy counters)… it took courage to pound through Jutland and 1914, but were great games. Great review… thanks
Hey Richard. Your experience echoes my own. I was in first year college at the time and well do I remember playing on the basement floor. Yup! Mighty hard on the knees. I'm hoping Jack Greene's new "Jutland" game (due out this year) will allow me to play it on a half decent sized table now. My knees are not what they used to be.
Jut·land [juht-luhnd] noun a peninsula comprising the continental portion of Denmark: naval battle between the British and German fleets was fought west of this peninsula 1916. 11,441 sq. mi. (29,630 sq. km). JUT-land seems correct pronunciation depending on your part of the world.
Loved Blitzkrieg. SPI had an expansion pack for it but I never could find it in any hobby store in the 70s. Found it one time in the late 80s during a business trip to Dallas but the hobby store wanted $140 for it so I didn't buy it. They said the price was high because it was a collectible. I was shocked to find out that something that was mass printed the previous decade would be so expensive. It was not in a fancy package. Stalingrad was one of my first ones and my friends and I loved it. My uncle was my competition with Tactics II during the 60s when I was a kid.
Unfortunately if you see my video on "Games I don't play" you will see Avalon Hill's 1977 edition of "Bismarck" there. If you see the video you will see that I don't even necessarily have anything against the game. I wish I had the old 1962 edition actually.
I bought this game in June 1967, as a high school graduation present to myself. A friend and I skipped the search portion and went straight to the full fleet battle game, which took us an entire weekend to play out on the tile floor in my family's basement. I had bruises on both knees for a week! My friend played the British. He had more ships but horrible luck rolling his dice, resulting in a win for my High Seas Fleet! One of my fondest 60's gaming memories.
Gilbert, Thanks. your videos are great introduction to Jutland. I liked your explanation of the "board game", search procedure and battle procedure. The acetate sheet on hit sheets was great too.
I had this game in the late 60's and loved it. One soon discovered in playing it that the Germans had an insurmountable problem facing them, which was: Their ships were very tough, but they were too badly outnumbered by the Royal Navy to win an all-out battle between the entirety of the 2 fleets. Their best hope was to "hit and run", meaning sink a few of the more vulnerable British ships (meaning the battle cruisers) and then get the hell out of there before the entire Grand Fleet had a chance to engage them. And that's pretty much what did happen at Jutland. There was no hope for the Germans in a protracted flight against the entire British battle line. And the old pre-dreadnoughts the Germans had might better have stayed home, I think, because they just weren't powerful enough to be fighting against dreadnoughts.
My friend Greg(RIP) and I use to play this game in the early 70s on the floor in the living room when we were kids. He bought the game at the same time that I had bought the Panzerblitz game. He also had the old game U Boat that was ordered from Avalon Hill. I bought and played the old Avalon Hill navy game Wooden Ships and Iron Men when it came out a few years later.
Glibert, I haven't look at your channel before so I'm subscribing. I'll be watching your videos.
what a great game An old friend for certain! Great review
The birds are a nice touch
Beautiful ship counters...I'm a sucker for those. Best I ever saw/used were those included with Victory Games "Fleet Series".
Jutland looks appealing to me for the separate Search and Battle procedures. Very unique...especially considering there's no board as such. Thanx again.
Funny you and I seem to have played and "missed" the opposite games back in the day (albeit your hay-day was a decade earlier than mine). I picked this up last year for the first time...I have yet to find anyone to toss dice with it yet, but I keep looking. Pity we did not know each other back then, we would have had the entire AH catalog covered between us.
Love the old AH games… though Midway was pretty sharp, played that one to death. Jutland was a challenge, and 1914 followed, especially in its complexity… (blind squares and dummy counters)… it took courage to pound through Jutland and 1914, but were great games. Great review… thanks
1914 was my first game
I really liked 1914. I owned it but it’s disappeared. Drives me crazy that I can’t find it.
Great video! Jutland (and Gettysburg '64) are two AH games that I wish I had. Thanks for showing us the game!
Hey Richard. Your experience echoes my own. I was in first year college at the time and well do I remember playing on the basement floor. Yup! Mighty hard on the knees. I'm hoping Jack Greene's new "Jutland" game (due out this year) will allow me to play it on a half decent sized table now. My knees are not what they used to be.
I enjoy your videos
Jut·land [juht-luhnd]
noun
a peninsula comprising the continental portion of Denmark: naval battle between the British and German fleets was fought west of this peninsula 1916. 11,441 sq. mi. (29,630 sq. km).
JUT-land seems correct pronunciation depending on your part of the world.
lawrenceboyer you are sick
Great game. Spend lots of time on the floor moving capital ships around....
Mr. Collins, in the book, Zones of Control, Jack Greene did a short article on his research of Dreadnoughts. interesting to say the least.
I started with Blitzkrieg and Afrika Korps, then1914, and finally I subscribed to the General.
We started with Tatics II, and Waterloo. Then U-Boat, D-Day Africa Korp eat all. Only tried Jutland twice-took up too much room.
Loved Blitzkrieg. SPI had an expansion pack for it but I never could find it in any hobby store in the 70s. Found it one time in the late 80s during a business trip to Dallas but the hobby store wanted $140 for it so I didn't buy it. They said the price was high because it was a collectible. I was shocked to find out that something that was mass printed the previous decade would be so expensive. It was not in a fancy package.
Stalingrad was one of my first ones and my friends and I loved it. My uncle was my competition with Tactics II during the 60s when I was a kid.
I don't see the point of the compass markets?
what if the conveys never meet?
Unfortunately if you see my video on "Games I don't play" you will see Avalon Hill's 1977 edition of "Bismarck" there. If you see the video you will see that I don't even necessarily have anything against the game. I wish I had the old 1962 edition actually.
No, I can't say I'm familiar with that game. Heard of it awhile back but never owned it.
1967, eh? Looks amazing. Star Fleet Battles looks a lot less original…as does Star Wars Armada.
YOOT-land, not JUT-land
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