The weekend saw a trip to mad friend Gerry. With a bunch of other guys we were playing through Trafaogar with every ship being represented . We were using the collection of late friend Brendan which had been refurbished recently .
I had Dumanoirs squadrons of French and Spanish ships at front if the combined fleet (well actually it was the rear , but the fleet had done a u turn )
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| A little bit of AI augmentation sets the scene |
The rules used were the Rod Langton 4th Ed Signal,Close for Action . These are pretty detailed but they played pretty well as Gerry has created new play sheets to streamline things . As ever with naval gaming the simple act of sailing a ship adds to complexity of fighting it .
The wind was of course definitely with the RN as it was historically . The poorer sailing and command ability of the combined fleet really shine through with them struggling to maintain station and or turn .
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| The RN heads in to break into the line. |
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| Well and truly hammered with a jury rigged mast and two lots of rigging down |
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| Graham climbs onto the table his RN ships are that far across! His stern rake on the Santissima Trinidad the huge 4 decker that took away its rudder caused utter chaos |
It was a great weekend with good friends . The RN of course carried the day , but not as convincing as on the day - the guys said they should have done a few different things . The highlight for the combined fleet was the capture of HMS Victory on the last turn . She had been well and truly pummelled and was boarded by a Spanish 74 and captured . She would most likely have been recaptured but the following turn , but we had timed out so we took that.
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| My seriously unlucky ship the Neptuno. Its own shot had a gun blow up starting a fire .and hull damage. It was then hit by British broadside the blew always it rudder . You can see it out if control swinging in front of one of my French ships ! |
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I need to pick up a few 1/1200 ships I think …
