Venice rules the waves

[FierceKitty]

Admiral Mario di Gregorio, Duke of Istria and Shark of St Mark, leads out the contribution of La Serenissima to rendezvous with the Holy League.

The Knights of Malta are under the brush.

Of course, in Italian his nickname has to be il Squalo Malo, but it's better in English.

[Techno II]

Those look rather spiffy ! 

Cheers - Phil 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Pity they will all be splinters when Lee attacks them 

[FierceKitty]

Maybe she'll be leading them. She likes Italy.

[sunjester]

   Very nice!

[paulr]

 

[Westmarcher]

Looking good.     

What naval rules?

[FierceKitty]

Haven't written them yet,

[Westmarcher]

Ah! No doubt you'll have a few ideas already. Personally, I would struggle (but would probably refer to the currently free and available Spanish Fury rules in The Perfect Captain to get me started). Good luck.

[FierceKitty]

From what I've seen of the stuff that's out there, the secret must be to treat squadrons of ships like units of infantry in land warfare....

[Steve J]

Very nice indeed .

[paulr]

From what I've seen of the stuff that's out there, the secret must be to treat squadrons of ships like units of infantry in land warfare....

This is my thinking as well, to fight decent size battles you can't get bogged down in the details of individual ships

Unfortunately most of the rules I've seen focus on the details and seem to 'bathtub' larger battles

[hammurabi70]

This is my thinking as well, to fight decent size battles you can't get bogged down in the details of individual ships

Unfortunately most of the rules I've seen focus on the details and seem to 'bathtub' larger battles

Yes, which is why I have kept away from the topic.  I have a friend who has tried to write larger battle rules and he is can do about 30 a side but one is in danger of reducing everything to a simple competitive die roll, which is why we gave up in the 1990s.  I hope you can pioneer the way with something new.  The P&SS friend a new approach with C17 naval warfare with Generals-at-Sea where units were squadrons (of sailing ships)  rather than individual ships.

[paulr]

David Manley made a good attempt at this approach back in the early 2000s with "Greek Fire and Roman Fury" based on the Fire & Fury 'engine'