nav-con quick report

[ckosacranoid]

i am sorry about the lack of pics but for some stupid reason i just did not grab my camera out of the truck when i was there today. i am sure a few people will post pics from there or on the website.

but a quick idea of a couple of game that i played today.
the first one was with battlefield hobbys and thier 1200 scale "things that go bump in the med" using the WWII rules. I ran the naval forces of itialy with some of the worst crews ever....i was talked of taking them out back and beating them unitl they could hit a ship....
i was fighting a force of brits in just a random fleet pickup game that really was very cool for a game. i had 3 fast battleships and 3 cruisers. the brits had i think along the same lines meybe or meybe one more ships then me.
we started in the couners from each other with 2 of my ships coming in from the couner to my left which lead to my hanging a left turn for the game. the brits started in two rows and went towards the middle of the table which left 3 ships of the force to sit out most of the battle since range was an issue mostof the game. the thing that hurt me is a crossover with my battleline which lead to a couple of turns i could not fire sevreral ships as i got a couple of them turned around and got into a battleline...
but more the frst part of the fight i got to pound on two brit cruisers....and the only thing that happened was they got thier decks washed very well since i seemed to miss more then do anything. but somehow in all this i ended up sinking both of them and then started in on the two battleships behind them which i did really put a hurting on for sure.
over all they sank one of my cruisers due to fire and shear damage sink, the rest of the force they did damage to with one battleship with about half damage and then rest ok damage or light stuff.
over all the game lasted a very long time on time wise i think we called it at somewhere around turn 13 or so i think. which if the turns are 5 mint then the battle ran for about 65 mintues or so and there three freah ships just getting into the fight at the that time but i still had a very good battleline and out numbered them at the that point.. over all a very well run game and it was fun. thier where a couple of rules that we needed to look up after the game and figure out for any gun that pen need to role a crit hit. they where thinking only main batt guns,

they where also running a russia/ jap was on the next table and it was very a nice setup. i did not play in it but the amount of ships was very cool in 1000 scale. it got bloody from what i heard about the game. it was the fight with the russias sailing the black seas fleet to japan to fight out of the book.

i meet two other members of the board running a 1200 sclae WWII game else where at the con and they where playying a small group of japs vs us in a night battle. I know i ended up helping them out with the moral rolls at one point and watching here and there as they played the game. i have to say the WWII ships have great speed and firepower and can really take a pouding from what i seen of the sheets i got to look at today.
the two gents i for the life of me can not remember thier names but i know one was from crystal lake il and the other was from fughter west and had something to do with sheep and was a teacher i think. sorry guys...it was fun talking to you both though.

i also got to play a smoke on the water civil war iron clad game which was rather fun....i got to play a moniter i think and on the union side. the rebs had 4 ships and we had 6 ships including the new ironsides.....i ended up chasing one ship for sevral turns nipping at its heels after lossing one gun in the turret and then after bouncing for some time he just blew the rest of the turret off the ships and i pulled out of the fight. but they ships someohow had two guns expolde and then set the newirons sides on fire before the end of the game and did some damage to a couple of others. the other rebs one got sunk, one ran up the white flag and two got away to open seas....fun game, meybe to many players i think for the action. i might have to look into a set of rules for iron clades since i now seem to have many ships for uncharated seas that i have pickep up....

[afilter]

The sheep farmer would be Mike most likely running his Savo Island scenario. Hope to see some more repirts with pics since I had to miss this year.

[meesch56]

Actually, I did not run my Savo Game at NavCon. It was my intention but I had scratched navCon from my calendar. It was a last minute decission to daytrip it this year. I am planning on Savo for RockCon.

The game I did play was the First GuadalCanal Scenario as listed in the NT rule book. Dan Barmore supplied the figs and game materials. We threw down a PU game. I played the US with its 2 CAs and 4 Cls and sortied out to intercept and turn away the Japanese Bombardment force consisting of the Cl Nagara and the BC Hiel and Kiroshima. Its was a night fight so I tried to take advantage of speed,manueverabity and smoke screens to divide and conquer the Japanese BCs. Much to my surprise it seemed to work. After serging forward with the Atlanta and San francisco and Portland I Made a quick turn back on the Heil and Nagara isolating the Kiroshima and screening her from the fight. I was able to sink the Nagara with withering close range secondary fire while focusing on the Hiel with main battery from the CAs and 6in guns from the CLs. (Penetreating hits with few and far between). The San Francisco managed to stay afloat after absorbing the brunt of the Heil's abuse. with two hull spaces left she made a command roll to limp off into the darkness. Portland scored alucky flooding hit and Dan obliged me by rolling a severe list. Two tough turns later the Hiel, listing and ablaze took 3 Torp hits from the Juneau before sending her sinking her. The Hiel's SAV prevented any Pentrating torp hits so after 30 pts of damage she was down to about a 4th of her hull points. Having also suffering a bridge critical, the heil made a compulsory command check and retired from the board.

History does repeat itself. this game was a blast. Dan will post a complete AAR and Photos.
I will add some of the destroyers that were left out if I run this at a con.

Mike Out
BTW- thanks to Jason aka cksacronoid for moral rules help

[ckosacranoid]

no problem mike, just gald everyone had fun though and no problem with the rules. i am going to go though and reread the rules again just get the better understanding.

[afilter]

All,

I see the NAVCON organizers now posted this years pics...alot of familiar faces. Looks like a good time once again.

www.flickr.com/photos/war_artisan/sets/72157627862708040/