It's been a while since our club had a go at this, but we had a bit of a skirmish with Napoleonic Naval the other day, using David Manley's Form Line of Battle rules. Russians vs Swedes. I still have the knack of getting my ships loaded with the wrong ammunition and losing all boarding actions, but who cares. Arr shiver me timbers and kiss me Hardy!

Cheers,
Aksu

Looks great! ☠️

Those are rather splendid ! 

Cheers - Phil

 

Looks right. 

Looks great. FLOB is a great system as well. Terrific fun.

More photos please !   This looks like a particularly spectacular naval
collection.


Phil

They really look the part 

Quote from: Glorfindel on 18 August 2017, 09:00:51 AM
More photos please !   This looks like a particularly spectacular naval
collection.Phil

Thank you for the kind words, I'll try and take some snaps. All my ships are Navwar, rigged and painted to gaming standard, ie nothing fancy. I have a few unbuilt Langton Swedish coastal ships, but I don't think I need that level of detail for games. Of all naval eras I do like the sail most for gaming, with possible exception of Victorian transition to steam and ACW with eg weird rubber coated ships. The modern era is more interesting on the operational campaign level I suppose.
Cheers,
Aksu

Nice looking boats indeed.

Although it does look like you're about to have a five boat pile up , which is going to hurt

Was it resolved in one massive melee across multiple decks, Errol Flynn style?

 

Noob here....  Navwar is a brand or ship style?   Where do you get these minis??

http://www.navwar.co.uk/nav/ 

Navwar is a company, as fsn has provided the link for. They make naval models for wargaming (good value for money as they're low cost), but not really display quality miniatures. I've had their 1/1200 ships in the past, but I actually think their 1/3000 Napoleonic models are far superior sculpt wise (though they are very small - as in, a Ship of the Line fits on a 20mm square base).

Tumbling Dice make some nice naval miniatures, with the benefit of some of the rigging being cast onto the models. Though they are only 1/2400 in size. Useful to game with, though.
http://www.tumblingdiceuk.com/

If you're after the top of the range quality gaming miniatures for age of sail naval, then its probably Langton Miniatures that you should go to. But to do them justice you really do need to have a competent degree of modelling and ship painting skill, I'd say. Lovely models, and they look great in a game. If you're after display models then this is the company to buy from out of these three.
http://www.rodlangton.com/

WARNING WARNING - rigging 1/1200th scale ships will lead to LOTS and LOTS of really foul language.

IanS