Post by Gower on Jun 5, 2012 9:13:30 GMT -5
Myself and several friends put on demo game at the Explosion Naval Wargames this weekend. The show is held at the excellent museum of Naval Firepower in Gosport, UK. www.explosion.org.uk/
We choose to do Santiago as Lance already had the ships and terrain from several years before hand. Over the years we had played out the battle using several rule systems, including the Steam and Steel, and Battlefleet 1900. In fact this was our first game with NT, apart from a practise game the night before with some Germany and US ships. Everybody felt the NT was easy to pick up, and gave a good feel to the period.
The models are Navwar 1/3000th and we had all the ships involved, the US armed yachts were used as eye candy (although Harvard did have an impact on one game).
The Spanish ships sailed from the top corner of the table to the opposite bottom corner. The US ships laid out in an arc as the maps of the action show. All US ships had to make a command toll each turn to able to act independently, those that failed had to make there way towards their Flagship. Those under the command of Sampson on the USS New York had to make their way to the Eastern edge of the table, until she came onto the table on turn 3.
Outer defenses of Santiago de Cuba
We played out three games, changing sides with each game.
Game 1 – Saw most of the Spanish get off table with varying degrees of damage, with Vizcaya and Furor lost. The US ships suffered some minor damage, apart from Texas who took some serious damage as a result of getting to close to the Spanish cruisers while on her own and Brooklyn who suffered two “Serious Lists” in a row and turned turtle in front of the Spanish.
Game 2 – Was a much harder fight for the Spanish as the US made a much better go of keeping the Spanish in range. The US ships suffered a lot less damage, apart from USS Indiana who while increasing speed has what looked like a minor collision with the Harvard, several bad flooding control rolls later and in danger of going beyond 50% hull point without firing a shot she had to break off.
Crunch
Game 3 – Was the worse for the Spanish, within minutes two for the cruisers was suffering from major fires. And lost most of their primary guns, in addition Vizcaya rolled over (by the same player that could not keep Brooklyn on an even keel).
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Cristobal Colon on fire
So three enjoyable games in a day, with time to still check on the new Type 45 docked in Portsmouth Naval Yards across the bay.
So next on the cards is to paint up the ships for the Battlecruisers clash at Jutland to try the WWI rules, and either paint up ships for Yellow Sea or Trafalgar Refought 1905 www.camberpete.co.uk/Pre_WW1_Pages/Trafalgar%20Refought.htm for next year.
We choose to do Santiago as Lance already had the ships and terrain from several years before hand. Over the years we had played out the battle using several rule systems, including the Steam and Steel, and Battlefleet 1900. In fact this was our first game with NT, apart from a practise game the night before with some Germany and US ships. Everybody felt the NT was easy to pick up, and gave a good feel to the period.
The models are Navwar 1/3000th and we had all the ships involved, the US armed yachts were used as eye candy (although Harvard did have an impact on one game).
The Spanish ships sailed from the top corner of the table to the opposite bottom corner. The US ships laid out in an arc as the maps of the action show. All US ships had to make a command toll each turn to able to act independently, those that failed had to make there way towards their Flagship. Those under the command of Sampson on the USS New York had to make their way to the Eastern edge of the table, until she came onto the table on turn 3.
Outer defenses of Santiago de Cuba
We played out three games, changing sides with each game.
Game 1 – Saw most of the Spanish get off table with varying degrees of damage, with Vizcaya and Furor lost. The US ships suffered some minor damage, apart from Texas who took some serious damage as a result of getting to close to the Spanish cruisers while on her own and Brooklyn who suffered two “Serious Lists” in a row and turned turtle in front of the Spanish.
Game 2 – Was a much harder fight for the Spanish as the US made a much better go of keeping the Spanish in range. The US ships suffered a lot less damage, apart from USS Indiana who while increasing speed has what looked like a minor collision with the Harvard, several bad flooding control rolls later and in danger of going beyond 50% hull point without firing a shot she had to break off.
Crunch
Game 3 – Was the worse for the Spanish, within minutes two for the cruisers was suffering from major fires. And lost most of their primary guns, in addition Vizcaya rolled over (by the same player that could not keep Brooklyn on an even keel).
"]Cristobal Colon on fire
So three enjoyable games in a day, with time to still check on the new Type 45 docked in Portsmouth Naval Yards across the bay.
So next on the cards is to paint up the ships for the Battlecruisers clash at Jutland to try the WWI rules, and either paint up ships for Yellow Sea or Trafalgar Refought 1905 www.camberpete.co.uk/Pre_WW1_Pages/Trafalgar%20Refought.htm for next year.
