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He's a member of the Orkney Wargames Club, which meets in Kirkwall on Thursday evenings.
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The Age of Fighting Sail, The Full Nelson, 1/1200 scale We were all at sea again this week, with another playtest of The Full Nelson, the forthcoming age of sail rules from the Too Fat Lardies. So far we’ve only had good things to say about it, so our aim was to try and see
The Age of Fighting Sail, The Full Nelson, 1/1200 scale A few weeks ago, after seeing a post about these rules – the Two Fat Lardies’ successor to Kiss Me Hardy! – I messaged Richard Clark to ask about them. Even though he was about to leave for a holiday, he sent me the draft
The Age of Fighting Sail, Kiss Me, Hardy! 1/1200 scale First of all, I’ve got to start with an apology. This is a game report from 24 April, and I’m only posting it on 3rd June. The reason is, I spent the time writing a book. I sometimes get tunnel vision when I’m at that
The Age of Fighting Sail, Kiss me Hardy!, 1/1200 scale The idea was to stage a small naval game, to entice my friend Jim into naval games. The game was set in 1806, and involved a small Spanish squadron which had been blockaded in Palma on Mallorca for months. A gale though, forced the blockading
The Age of Fighting Sail, Post Captain, 1/1200 scale This week, I wasn’t going to make it into the club due to car trouble, but fortunately my friend Bruce was up visiting – who’s both ex navy and vaguely interested in wargaming. So, we managed to fit in a game at my place. This was
The Age of Fighting Sail, Kiss Me Hardy, 1/1200 scale We were all at sea this week, playing a fun-looking scenario from the Lard Magazine 2021. A French squadron of four ships-of-the-line was on its way from Nice to Calvi in Corsica, when it stopped to take on water in the Iles d’ Hyères, off
The Age of Fighting Sail, Far Distant Ships, 1/1200 scale This game was set during Nelson’s chase of Villeneuve to the West Indies in May and June 1805 – a few months before Trafalgar. This was largely because Sean 1’s sea mat was Caribbean blue… Anyway, in this game the two Seans played the French,
The Age of Fighting Sail, Post Captain, 1/1200 scale We fancied a trip to the sea this week, and opted for a frigate action. While we use Far Distant Ships for fleet actions, for the smaller stuff I opt for Post Captain, from the same people who produce General Quarters. While they claim you can
The Age of Fighting Sail, Far Distant Ships, 1/1200 scale When I was south last week I picked up two battle-ready French ships-of-the-line. My friend Jack Glanville had kindly painted and rigged them for me. So, we decided to stage another fleet action, with the 74s Pluton and Duguay-Trouin reinforcing the French contingent. In this
The Age of Fighting Sail, Far Distant Ships, 1/1200 scale Last Trafalgar Day we played a Napoleonic era fleet action using Osprey’s Fighting Sail rules. I thought they were quite fun and fast to play, but I had quite a few reservations about them. The amendments posted on the rules’ Facebook page helped, but they
