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Post by afilter on Mar 11, 2011 10:22:44 GMT -5
Good thing you reminded me. Ugh. . . I hate springing forward. Me as well....I would hate for it to cut into our gaming time. 10Am start was a good call.
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Post by fluorophil on Mar 12, 2011 12:30:57 GMT -5
It's early Sunday morning here...so, I just thought I'd wish everyone the best for today's festivities - enjoy!!
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Post by afilter on Mar 13, 2011 22:20:29 GMT -5
Great day of Gaming! Thanks to Mike and the Mrs for letting Mike play. Always great to put faces to names. It was a pleasure to meet everyone. Look foward to downloading pics and seeing the write ups. Ready for some sleep after a couple of hard fought battles.
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Post by shigure on Mar 13, 2011 22:33:14 GMT -5
All those ships in two games and only one magazine explosion...
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Post by meesch56 on Mar 14, 2011 1:49:29 GMT -5
Great Day! Zonked out in man-chair after you guys all left! Awesome games and good company what more could I ask for. Hedge-Con 1 was a Success!
sleepy now AARs to come good-night
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Post by Bluebear on Mar 14, 2011 5:46:39 GMT -5
Sleepy?!?!? . . . Get yourself out of bed and start posting photos & AARs right now, you slacker!
Oh, all right . . . you can sleep now, but call in sick to work and post photos, eh? Or, if you must go to work, then as soon as you get home . . . that's right, no dinner for you until you feed us some eye-candy, sir.
-- Jeff
PS, I'm glad that you seemed to have a good time.
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Post by afilter on Mar 14, 2011 10:28:42 GMT -5
Jeff, I will start a thread tonight with some pics from both actions. Mike took the notes and will have to provide the write up. I have a feeling Shigure has the best pics as he carefully documented all the action. Both actions were very impressive. Seeing the full OoB for Tsushima on the table was well worth the effort of making them.
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Post by shigure on Mar 14, 2011 10:57:53 GMT -5
I will post some pics of the action tonight. I hope the lighting did not affect the pics too much.
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Post by fastgit on Mar 14, 2011 13:05:43 GMT -5
Outstanding news... I'm looking forward to the AARs. Glad to hear y'all had a blast!
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Post by fluorophil on Mar 14, 2011 14:44:55 GMT -5
Agreed! Can't wait! Harry, do you want to make this a yearly thing? May I offer my services for next year?? I'll provide the venue... Everyone just has to get here...
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Post by afilter on Mar 14, 2011 19:16:05 GMT -5
Here are a couple teasers... Savo Island: Tsushima:
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Post by meesch56 on Mar 14, 2011 20:46:21 GMT -5
Here is the the first AAR.
AAR- Battle of SAVO ISLAND played on March 13th.
Pre- turn 1 Japanese turn- (Represents surprise) • Japanese cruisers split battle line and maneuver for attack. • Aerial flare dropped by spotter plane illuminate the Canberra and her group. • Japanese open fire at HMAS Canberra and her group with little effect. Turn 1 • All allied ships move ahead 4, required to make command checks to return fire as crews scramble to battle stations. All 4 Allied ships make command rolls. Chicago hits Chokai and starts a fire (illuminating Chokai). • Japanese fire with minor effect.
Turn 2 • USN Chicago (CA) sinks after taking five main battery hits from Chokai. • IJN Chokai (CA) explodes due to a critical hit to a magazine from Chicago’s main guns and a 21” torpedo hit from DD Paterson. Turn 3 • HMAS Canberra (CA) sunk by gunfire from IJN Furutaka and IJN Kinugasa • USN Patterson (DD) sinks as a result of gunfire from Aoba. Turn 4 • IJN AOBA (CA) Sunk by main gunfire by Quincy. • IJN KAKO (CA) Sunk by main gunfire by Vincennes. • IJN TENRYU (CL) Sunk by main gunfire by destroyers Bagley, Talbot and Wilson. • USN Bagley (DD) Sinks due to flooding at the end of turn. Turn 5 • IJN KINUGASA (CA) launches torpedoes but is then sunk by main gunfire by Astoria. • USN HELM (DD) Sunk by main gunfire by Yunagi. • IJN YUNAGI (DD) Sunk by main gunfire by destroyers Wilson and Helm. • USN VINCENNES (CA) Sunk by torpedo from Yubari. • USN ASTORIA (CA) Torpedoed by Kinugasa and sinks at the end of turn due to flooding. Turn 6 • USN BLUE (DD) Sunk by main gunfire by Furutaku. • Furutaka (illuminated) set ablaze by shell hit.
Turn 7 • Furutaka takes out Ralph Talbot’s portside Torpedo mount before the fish can be launched. Turn 8 • IJN YUBARI (CL) Sunk by main gunfire by Quincy and Wilson. • Furutaka loses Aft Main Battery to gunfire from the Ralph Talbot. Concluded: Game called. Furutaka was about to go down in Turn 9 . Japanese losses would have been: 5 Cruisers sunk, 2 Light Cruiser Sunk and 1 destroyer sunk. Allied losses were: 4Cruisers sunk, 4 destroyers sunk. Strategic victory goes to the Allies because the Allied invasion force at Guadalcanal in now safe from surface attack.
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Post by shigure on Mar 14, 2011 21:39:15 GMT -5
Here is the the first AAR. (With Pics)Hopefully this will appease the masses... ;D AAR- Battle of SAVO ISLAND played on March 13th. Initial Set-up with the IJN approaching from the top of the board. The Canberra group is located to the right and the Astoria group is to the left. IJN Formation: Canberra formation: Astoria formation: Pre- turn 1 Japanese turn- (Represents surprise) • Japanese cruisers split battle line and maneuver for attack. • Aerial flare dropped by spotter plane illuminate the Canberra and her group. • Japanese open fire at HMAS Canberra and her group with little effect. Turn 1 • All allied ships move ahead 4, required to make command checks to return fire as crews scramble to battle stations. All 4 Allied ships make command rolls. Chicago hits Chokai and starts a fire (illuminating Chokai). • Japanese fire with minor effect. Turn 2 • USN Chicago (CA) sinks after taking five main battery hits from Chokai. • IJN Chokai (CA) explodes due to a critical hit to a magazine from Chicago’s main guns and a 21” torpedo hit from DD Paterson. Chicago: Chokai: Turn 3 • HMAS Canberra (CA) sunk by gunfire from IJN Furutaka and IJN Kinugasa • USN Patterson (DD) sinks as a result of gunfire from Aoba. Canberra: Turn 4 • IJN AOBA (CA) Sunk by main gunfire by Quincy. • IJN KAKO (CA) Sunk by main gunfire by Vincennes. • IJN TENRYU (CL) Sunk by main gunfire by destroyers Bagley, Talbot and Wilson. • USN Bagley (DD) Sinks due to flooding at the end of turn. Kako, Tenryu, & Bagley: Aoba: Turn 5 • IJN KINUGASA (CA) launches torpedoes but is then sunk by main gunfire by Astoria. • USN HELM (DD) Sunk by main gunfire by Yunagi. • IJN YUNAGI (DD) Sunk by main gunfire by destroyers Wilson and Helm. • USN VINCENNES (CA) Sunk by torpedo from Yubari. • USN ASTORIA (CA) Torpedoed by Kinugasa and sinks at the end of turn due to flooding. Turn 6 • USN BLUE (DD) Sunk by main gunfire by Furutaku. • Furutaka (illuminated) set ablaze by shell hit. Turn 7 • Furutaka takes out Ralph Talbot’s portside Torpedo mount before the fish can be launched. Turn 8 • IJN YUBARI (CL) Sunk by main gunfire by Quincy and Wilson. • Furutaka loses Aft Main Battery to gunfire from the Ralph Talbot. Yubari: Furataka: Concluded: Game called. Furutaka was about to go down in Turn 9 . Japanese losses would have been: 5 Cruisers sunk, 2 Light Cruiser Sunk and 1 destroyer sunk. Allied losses were: 4Cruisers sunk, 4 destroyers sunk. Strategic victory goes to the Allies because the Allied invasion force at Guadalcanal in now safe from surface attack. Had a lot of fun except I got my whole command shot out from underneath me. My only consolation was sinking the enemy flagship with a MAGAZINE explosion before the Chokai gunners riddled the Chicago.
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Post by afilter on Mar 14, 2011 21:47:27 GMT -5
Excellent pics...turned out way better than mine. I forgot to tufn off the date stamp. Thanks fir posting.
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Post by shigure on Mar 14, 2011 21:50:51 GMT -5
So far I have been very pleased with the performance of my Fujifilm S3100 as long as I use the flash. Without the flash, its about 50/50 with a lot of blurring in the bad pics.
I set the camera on the lowest resolution and the pictures still provided very good detail.
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Post by warchariot on Mar 14, 2011 22:16:56 GMT -5
Thanks all for the pictures and comments. Looks like you all had a great time.
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Post by fluorophil on Mar 14, 2011 22:23:59 GMT -5
Magnificent AAR and photos! What make and scale of ships were you using?
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Post by shigure on Mar 14, 2011 22:28:05 GMT -5
meesch56 provided all the ships for this battle. As you can see from the pics, the ships were painted to a very high standard. Our thanks to meesch56 & his beautiful and gracious wife for hosting this event and providing excellent vittles (slang for food in the southern US). Hopefully he didn't use up too many favors in hosting us. Good luck to her in her search for a teaching job. Hopefully the interview went well for her today...
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Post by shigure on Mar 14, 2011 22:32:07 GMT -5
The scale was 1/2400 and I believe most if not all of the ships were GHQ. Meesch56 weathering/drybrushing really brought the detail on these ships.
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Post by meesch56 on Mar 14, 2011 22:41:09 GMT -5
That is correct: Scale 1/2400, GHQ micronauts, based on generic craft store "oval Woodsies", Litko naval markers, Smoke made from pillow batting pulled and spay painted various colors. The Islands are represented by Hill terrain from my 28mm Ancients stuff.
Weathering and dry brushing. The ships all get a thin ink wash to shadow fill, after painting but before dry-brushing for highlights.
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