Something a bit different, some Renaissance naval combat tonight.
Andrew has made many beautiful models of Renaissance era galleys, lasercut for the most part, and with pretty painting, banners, rigging etc.
Andrew has made many beautiful models of Renaissance era galleys, lasercut for the most part, and with pretty painting, banners, rigging etc.
We lined up a Turkish vs Venetian fleet.
We played using this fast play set of rules, which produce a very fast game. They have some loosely DBX inspired mechanics.
In addition to some limited but still useful gunnery, boarding is the main way of disabling enemy ships.
Victory to the Turks in this game, with the Venetians being somewhat outmatched. Incredibly brutal with masses of wrecked and tangled ships everywhere blocking movement and fire, which seems pretty historical. We will give the rules a try again next week.
This looks like colourful fun!
ReplyDeleteVery nice! Are these Skull and Crown lasercut models, or something else? Hard to twell the scale without any figures. Still on my "to do list" is to try Galleons and Galleys with my 15mm Renaissance ships. At the individual ship level, combat in this era is interesting because there is cannon fire, small arms fire, boarding, and even some ramming and oar shearing!
ReplyDeleteModels are around 1:600 scale. About half the size of Skull and Crown.
ReplyDelete"Home made" laser cut mostly birch ply, 1.5 and 0.8 mm thick. Then some
flags and so forth printed up on a laser printer with some touch up paint.
Very nicely done indeed, then!
DeleteThanks for comments all!
ReplyDeleteLooks exciting, and ships are great!
ReplyDeleteIt is a really interesting theme for me, I'm looking forward to seeing new posts and details.
Thank you Dmitry!
DeleteBeautiful looking game. I've had the rules for a while but never played them. Your post inspired me to order some 1/2400 scale fleets and break out the rules!
ReplyDeleteCheers good luck with them!
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