Battle Ship

Last night at our gaming club me and B played a navel battle game against R. The rules (written by him) and models used were R's. The game was an engagment by a Russian fleet (us) and a Japanese fleet (him) in the year 1904ish. The Russian objective was to destroy three transport ships.
Game rules to begin with seemed complicated but once you got going they were easy to follow, it took some thinking to wotk out were your fleet and his fleet were going to meet as speed and course change took time and went in slight arcs as you would expect in a real manover. Shooting was done on a damge chart and each ship had pips of damage. What we liked was whoever won inititative picked who went first (normally your opponent) but who won initative fired first which worked out as a real advantage.

Russian fleet had 3 battleships, 1 crusier and a couple of destroyers.
Japanesse fleet had  2 battleships, 4 crusiers some destroyers and a couple of torpedo boats.

After a few hours of gaming and help from R we called the game. Me and B are claiming a moral victory becasue the transports were sunk but at a terrible cost the fleet (we only had one battleship left limping home and had sunk some torpedo boats).



Two fleets face off



Russian Fleet



Two Fleets meet.



1:3000 Ship

 Thanks R for a great game.