Hi everyone. I took a break from ground-pounding and played, and lost, a naval battle in the Age of Steam. Pictures, short report and short review at

http://phdleadhead.blogspot.com.tr/2015/03/perfidious-albion-game-and-short.html

With Respect
K.Travlos

Interesting report , KT.
Hope your brain has recovered by now !
Cheers - Phil

Good report and review.

Love this, always find the "naval stuff" fascinating.

I like the fact that the ships have markedly different characteristics which means you need to bring a whole heap of skill as general.

Yes, the granularity in ship stats is a big deal. It nicely shows how the crappy main guns of the Peresvet class turn what seems on paper as a asymmetric game (6 BBS vs. 4 BBS and 2 ACS) to a very balanced one (4 BBs with real main guns 2 BBs with pea shooters vs. 4 BBS and 2 ACs). It also nicely explains why ships were so hard to sink. Really Tsushima was a really unique battle in that sense for the pre-dread era.

I forgot to say that most of the Russian ships are excellent War Times Journal sculpts, while the Japanese were mosly Panzershiffe. For me WTJ is the way to go. There was also a GHQ ship in there as well.

An interesting report I've just had a chance to catch up on

It's a period of naval warfare I'm fascinated with. B as you point out the challenge is to include enough detail to represent the many and varied ship designs while having a system that doesn't bog down in mind numbing detail.

Please keep us posted on your rules search

Now back to touching up 54mm figures