Tumbling Dice

[FierceKitty]

Stop talking about it and show us something!

[paulr]

Stop talking about it and show us something!

Sorry FK, they are finished I even managed to get them varnished just before the sun disappeared behind the hills at about 4:30pm
They will be used in anger next Saturday night

I will try and take some pictures next weekend when I have some decent daylight, at the moment I leave for work in the dark and get home again after dark 
I will try for some action shots as well

[pierre the shy]

Hmm haven't seen Paul's ships yet but I'm sure they'll be very good.....though he did say last night that painting in stern windows even on 1st rates was a bit too challenging even for him  

I'm not starting my stuff till I get back from my UK trip....but don't hold your collective breaths to see my very average painting later in the year.

I have other things to do this week. My good friend who I started gaming with in high school in the mid 70's passed on a few days ago...he had a good liife but will be missed in the local gaming scene. I've been asked to speak at his funeral on Thursday next about his gaming activities which I'm greatful for. He was a teacher for twenty odd years so lots of people are expected (venue holds up to 300) so I'll have to use my quarterdeck voice.....

On the up side been contacted by several gamers that I have not seen for a while for various reasons who are coming to the funeral....be good to see them all agian if only briefly  

Anyway sorry for hijacking the thread...we are playing our first game with the ships that are ready next Saturday - the Action off Cape Henry during the AWI/American Revolution, depending where you come from  

[paulr]

He will indeed be missed

[Wulf]

My camera's Macro function continues to annoy me, but here's an attempt to show my first - and so far only - attempt. I'm holding it in place to show how close it is to waterline, as it's not glued in yet.

[Ithoriel]

Tumbling Dice 1:2400 Armada period Spanish on Pendraken 30mm Hex bases.

There's a starter pack of English ships too.

Picked up both ships and bases at "Carronade."

I blame you Paul for luring me back into naval games.

[paulr]

Tumbling Dice 1:2400 Armada period Spanish on Pendraken 30mm Hex bases.

There's a starter pack of English ships too.

Picked up both ships and bases at "Carronade."

I blame you Paul for luring me back into naval games.

Your very welcome

I now know another Paul that will be pleased 

[Techno]

This thread IS where it's been all the time....Isn't it ?
I had finger problems late last night, and pressed 'a button' that I didn't mean to......
(I don't think I've moved it !)
Cheers - Mr Clumsy 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

It's totally disappeared - cant see it any more at all 

IanS

[Hertsblue]

Tumbling Dice 1:2400 Armada period Spanish on Pendraken 30mm Hex bases.

There's a starter pack of English ships too.

Picked up both ships and bases at "Carronade."

I blame you Paul for luring me back into naval games.

Interesting basing, Ithoriel. What rules are you using?

[Ithoriel]

Interesting basing, Ithoriel. What rules are you using?

I've been puddling about with a set of my own devising that I call "La Flota."

Gunfire reduces one or more of boarding factor (soldiers), movement (rigging & sails), manoeuvrability (crew), firepower (guns & gunners). Ships are very rarely sunk, normally only small ships fired on by large ones at close range.

Spanish ships are slow and clumsy and fire infrequently and with shorter range but are harder to damage and have bigger boarding and firing factors. The English need to use speed and manoeuvrability to pick apart Spanish ships from a distance before boarding, the Spanish need to time their less frequent fire to allow them to board before being picked apart!

The hex grid makes movement simpler. Speed is standard with the wind directly behind, slightly faster with the wind on the quarters, slightly slower with the wind for'ard of the beam and not possible with the wind dead ahead, unless under oars.

Still very much an alpha version of the rules! Hopefully, having some models to play with will concentrate the mind.

[FierceKitty]

Let me see 'em when they've been play tested a bit? I have a Thai buddy who's keen on Napoleonic naval.

[Hertsblue]

I've been puddling about with a set of my own devising that I call "La Flota."

Gunfire reduces one or more of boarding factor (soldiers), movement (rigging & sails), manoeuvrability (crew), firepower (guns & gunners). Ships are very rarely sunk, normally only small ships fired on by large ones at close range.

Spanish ships are slow and clumsy and fire infrequently and with shorter range but are harder to damage and have bigger boarding and firing factors. The English need to use speed and manoeuvrability to pick apart Spanish ships from a distance before boarding, the Spanish need to time their less frequent fire to allow them to board before being picked apart!

The hex grid makes movement simpler. Speed is standard with the wind directly behind, slightly faster with the wind on the quarters, slightly slower with the wind for'ard of the beam and not possible with the wind dead ahead, unless under oars.

Still very much an alpha version of the rules! Hopefully, having some models to play with will concentrate the mind.

Sounds as if they would handle fairly large fleet actions?

Incidentally, didn't I read somewhere that the English ships that attacked the Armada weren't that much smaller than their Spanish opponents? Someone realised that Spanish tons were much smaller than English tons!

[FierceKitty]

You could fill many pages with popular gibberish about the Spanish Armada. But the tons bit is interesting. Thank you. You've heard that Napoleon's height has been persistently misrepresented for similar reasons, I suppose?

[Hertsblue]

I vote we dig him up and check.