There weren't quite as many ships in our refight of the battle, but we did have over a dozen players commanding 17 or so sailing vessels.
I captained the Bucentaure, an 80-gun French ship.
We played a speeded-up version of the game, with automatic damage (the to-hit rolls slow a big game down) with the opportunity to roll for criticals. We maybe had one or two--mostly fires.
It was a fun game, with a lot of fog of war as ships carried out their written orders--sometimes to the detriment of the rest of the fleet.
The French and Spanish lost three or four ships, the
In the end, the
Wow, that's a lot of players and a big battle! By the way, Trafalgar was fought by the United Kingdom fleet; there hasn't been an English fleet since 1707.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but Nelson said "England expects that every man will do his duty" :)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I do appreciate the correction, and I fixed my blog post.
Looks great; how long did it take to play?
ReplyDeleteWe ended the game after four hours. It was pretty clear at that point that the British had won.
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