Tagged: naval
Tutorial- The Great Naval Rebasing Project
About eight years ago I started collecting 1/3000 naval ships and painted them to what I thought was a satisfactory level. However, my hobby skills have improved over the years and I had several issues with the ships I completed. I also had a large number of ships that were never painted that I wanted ... Read more
AAR- Trying out Galleys and Galleons
This week, I organized a game of Galleys and Galleons. As a naval game based on Song of Blades and Heroes, it is largely familiar, but also has some mechanics of its own to reflect the different focus. The two most noticeable changes are to movement and combat results. Most ships move either a short, ... Read more
Adepticon 2015: Fistful of Seamen and the Adventure of HMS Titan’s Uranus
At Adepticon Tim and I participated in the Saturday night edition of this massive, colorfully-named “Fistful of Seamen” (FoS) swashbuckling and sailing game. Easily the largest game I’ve ever been a part of, this massive game spanned a half-dozen tables, a few dozen ships and what appeared to be 50-plus participants. We had spoken with ... Read more
Naval Thunder report: Raid on Rabaul
I ran a game recently at Nav-Con, a long-running convention dedicated solely to naval wargaming. This year I once again used my trusty naval combat ruleset: “Naval Thunder: Battleship Row” by Steel Dreadnought Games. It’s a fairly simple system with a limited amount of bookkeeping and doesn’t take all day to play out. For the ... Read more
Naval Thunder report: Battle of the Denmark Strait
A few months ago four of us made the long trek out to Games Plus in Mt. Prospect to play our club’s first naval game. With only a few people attending, it made sense to play a battle with a small number of ships. The one I picked happened to also be one of the ... Read more
Naval Thunder at Rock-Con
The scenario I ran at Rock-Con, an annual convention in Rockford, Illinois, was one I created myself using historical ORBATs from several late-war battles in the Pacific during WWII. The rules used were Naval Thunder: Battleship Row, which I found to be a great and easy-to-use naval ruleset. The goal for the Japanese was to ... Read more