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Were that the case then I'd say 'yes, that was an enjoyable scenario.' I was always impressed by the realistic outcome the rules we used gave, they only seemed a let down when less experienced players didn't really know the best way to handle the campaign forces at their disposal. It may well be that the result is entirely historically plausible and has interesting implications for the campaign. I'd say it's impossible to say one way or another. What do you think your reaction would be then?" But let's say the scenario WAS part of a campaign. I'm assuming that a one-off scenario with the result described would be unsatisfactory. "Timmo – Fair comment, and one which I share. Whatever the result(more or less)everyone has a good time be they the winners or the losers. I think you can say almost anything can happen in a Naval game and I've seen some crazy things over the years I even saw a Destroyer fire torpedos outrun them and then get hit by it's own torpedos. The final result was the Iowa slowing sinking and then blowing up so for me it was very well fought battle. The game went on for a few more turns with the Yamato losing here rear 18inch turret while the Iowa lost all of her 16inch guns due to flooding and electrical problems so the Iowa only had her 5inch guns while I still had my 2 forward 18inch turrets. So now it was one on one with the Yamato and Iowa. Yamato(commanded by me)was trading shots with the Iowa and then I decided to switch targets to the North Carolina where I was able to hit her with one 18.1 inch shell and when our friend who was the GM pulled a card and he said I've never seen this card before and it read Magazine Explosion. On the other side there was a Yamato class Battleship(Yamato herself)and the Nagato Battleship.īoth sides were trading shots and early on the Nagato had a hit which caused a fire and regretfully couldn't put it out so it blew up after a few turns so this left the Yamato all by herself against the 2 US Battleships. On one side you had an Iowa class Battleship and a North Carolina class Battleship. Now the third and final example was a small fight between 2 Capital ships per side. This battle was won with good die rolling and good tactics on the part of the French. In this Battle the British Fleet lost at least two thirds of it's Fleet sunk or captured while the French Fleet didn't lose a ship. The rules we were using were called 74 and were done by a friend of mine. The second example is The Battle of the Nile but in this battle we did a twist instead of the French Fleet sitting at anchor in Aboukir Bay we had the French Fleet sail and meet the British Fleet at sea.
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Now in this game(which I was on the Russian side)we have some very good die rolling for the Russian's while the Japanese had some bad die rolling. So in this game which we were playing with the Fire When Ready rules the Russian's more or less wiped out the Japanese we even had the Russian Flagship rammed and cut in two the Japanese Battleship Fuji. I give 3 examples of Historical Naval Battles we did the first one was The Battle of the Yellow Sea in the Russo-Japanese War. For myself I've played many different Naval Battles some part of Campaigns and then stand alone ones.Īnd some of our results were as described above from a few ships sunk per side to where one Fleet is more or less wiped out.