“Historical Game of Naval Warfare” No. 703, 1967, $6.98
Designed by James F. Dunnigan
Players 2 or more
Playing Time 4 hours
Period World War I
Scale Tactical
Turn Search: 4 hrs.; Battle: 10 min.
Map Battle: 1”=1000 meters
Unit individual capital ships, squadrons and flotillas

This tactical WWI naval game covers the confrontation between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas fleet in May 1916. It was AH’s first game produced under a free-lance design contract. Designer Dunnigan was paid $200 for the game.

AH liked to tout Jutland as “the first boardgame without a board”, which sounds much better than a possible alternative description: a miniatures game without miniatures. Jutland was essentially a miniatures game, but used counters instead of model ships. Per the AH advertisement, the game did not include a board. Instead, battles were played out on a flat, open surface using the supplied rulers and gauges.

In 1974, AH released what it described as a “face-lifting” of the original game. Jutland ’74 included three new small-game scenarios and a complete rules rewrite by Randall Reed. That version stayed in the AH catalog to 1990.

The following component manifest describes the first edition, first printing from 1967.

Components

Boards Two 10-7/8”x13-7/8” mounted Task Force Boards (one German, one British marked copyright 1967)

Rules
1 6”x9” Easy Instructions folder (4 pp.) text in blue and black, marked with product number and “First Printing - April 1967"
2 10”x8” Battle Manual booklet (26 pp., slick paper) text in blue and black, marked “First Printing - April 1967”

Counters
Two 7¼”x10-5/8” counter sheets, 120 1-7/8”x½” counters: 58 British ships, 44 German ships, 18 blanks.

Charts, Pads, and Play-Aids
1 Two 8”x10½” pads of doublesided log sheets (one German, one British)
2 8”x10½” two-sided Time Record and Maneuver Chart card, marked with product number and copyright 1967
3 Blue 8”x10” two-sided Gunnery Tables card
4 Two two-piece cardboard range finders (9½”x2-3/8” and 9”x2-3/8”) 5 Two duplicate 1-5/8”x11” cardboard Battle Maneuver Gauges 6 Six duplicate 3”x3-3/4” cardboard Battle Area Markers Inserts 1 8½”x11” AH game catalog, slick paper folder (4 pp.) with photos in black and white, full color poster of Jutland box cover 2 Yellow 5½”x3¼” “This card came from” postpaid registration postcard 3 Yellow 5½”x3¼” DO A FRIEND A FAVOR postcard

In Memoriam: Revisiting the Avalon Hill Classics, Part II Old Games Never Die, Their Counters Just Fade Away

Introduction
Gettysburg '58
Gettysburg Battlefield Edition
Tactics II
U-Boat
Chancellorsville
D-Day
Civil War
Waterloo
Bismarck
Stalingrad
Jutland
Conclusion