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Red Sky at Morning

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I am looking for a copy of the rules for Red Sky at Morning, a Simulations Canada game.

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1993 version?
Like most other releases from underrated developer Simulations Canada (SimCan), Red Sky at Morning lives up to their normal complex gameplay and high realism.The game is a simulation of a hypothetical world-wide naval war, including a potential nuclear release. You can, naturally, play as either the US or the USSR, each with an accurate array of ships and nuclear weapons at your disposal. One of the first SimCan game with graphics, it was awkward in execution (graphics are presented in separate screens instead of with other text... perhaps a result of them being added later after the whole game was already coded in ASCII), but is still impressive for its tremendous amount of research and many realistic factors.

Overall, the game is a worthwhile challenge for naval simulation fans who are interested in Cold War portrayal, although it could have been made much more interesting with more diplomatic options a la Balance of Power.

from what i can see in the game, the read me file is contained in the game folder, plus extra info is in game, there is no manual that i can see, unless it came with the boxed version, then unless you find it for sale somewhere, you maybe out of luck i'm sorry to say
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ORIGINAL: zakblood

1993 version?
Like most other releases from underrated developer Simulations Canada (SimCan), Red Sky at Morning lives up to their normal complex gameplay and high realism.The game is a simulation of a hypothetical world-wide naval war, including a potential nuclear release. You can, naturally, play as either the US or the USSR, each with an accurate array of ships and nuclear weapons at your disposal. One of the first SimCan game with graphics, it was awkward in execution (graphics are presented in separate screens instead of with other text... perhaps a result of them being added later after the whole game was already coded in ASCII), but is still impressive for its tremendous amount of research and many realistic factors.

Overall, the game is a worthwhile challenge for naval simulation fans who are interested in Cold War portrayal, although it could have been made much more interesting with more diplomatic options a la Balance of Power.

from what i can see in the game, the read me file is contained in the game folder, plus extra info is in game, there is no manual that i can see, unless it came with the boxed version, then unless you find it for sale somewhere, you maybe out of luck i'm sorry to say


I have two original SimCan games, Battle of the Atlantic and Northern Fleet. Both have 3-4 page rule sets and guidance as to how to play the game. I would guess that Red Sky was similarly equipped.

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Try going here:

http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX/.ee6d3c4/28173

and asking the owner if he still has any files available.
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Thank you for that. I have posted a message there.
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wumaj, I'm checking with our lead programmer Rob. He was doing some SimCan work years ago and may have the rules info.
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thanks very much.

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Hi there. I might just have that game but if so, it is in a box with most of my naval books which currently resides in the basement (I'm reno'ing the house). There is a slight chance that I tossed it in the great Apple computer wargame purge of 2005 or so. My stack of useless wargames with 5.25" floppy disks irked me and I just tossed it all in frustration. I really ought to have kept all the printed materials but I doubt I did. Anyway, I will check and post here what I find.

I used to do games for SimCan and have a lot of SimCan game source code on my hard drive still but nothing in the way of PDFs or text files of the rules. Darn!

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I have two original SimCan games, Battle of the Atlantic and Northern Fleet. Both have 3-4 page rule sets and guidance as to how to play the game.

BTW, what's your opinion of "Battle of the Atlantic"? I could never get it to go beyond 1941 without crashing. (And by that time, it had become rather repetitive.)
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No need to venture into the basement. I purchased the docs from Stephen Newberg.

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There is a slight chance that I tossed it in the great Apple computer wargame purge of 2005 or so. My stack of useless wargames with 5.25" floppy disks irked me and I just tossed it all in frustration.
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