This Age of Sail "beer and pretzel" miniatures game was designed to be a simple game of naval warfare.

Quote from Barry Kendal in forum posting: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/158702

L&S was originally an 8 1/2" x 11" booklet of four pages, if I remember correctly, which came shrink-wrapped to the cardboard backing for "Limeys & Slimeys" 15mm hard-foam ships marketed by Minifigs. The booklet was professionally printed with dark blue or black ink and featured a small picture or two at the top of the first page along with the title. The "Limeys & Slimeys" packages included the ship hull in one piece, an unpainted crew of pirates or sailors in 15mm lead, along with ship's guns and, in later versions, cast-metal attachments for yardarms.

The mast parts were wooden dowels of various sizes with wood or metal fighting tops (mast platforms). The purchaser had to provide sails, and since boarding actions and removing crew and guns as casualties played a big role, most gamers either ignored sails or furled them to the yardarms (kleenex or scrap bedsheet bits were commonly used).

Ships ranged from small one-masted cutters up to a 32-gun frigate, which could be expanded into a 44 by an enterprising gamer with an X-acto razor saw and some modeling confidence using one hull cut in two with a midship section from a second hull (the scrap bow and stern were good for sinking ship markers).

The game was very popular in the early '90s at HMGS cons where it was not unusual to see 15 or 20 ships in action at once. It was very much a convention-fun, beer & pretzels system.