Within minutes, as the smoke cleared her flag came down and Sir Richard Strachan accepted her surrender, thus concluding the battle.
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Within minutes, as the smoke cleared her flag came down and Sir Richard Strachan accepted her surrender, thus concluding the battle.
Afterword.
The final positions of the ships can be compared with the actual battle map, and you can clearly see that the enactment made much more heavy weather of it from the French standpoint than in the real battle.
The points which astounded me most were the efficiency of the British Frigates in hounding the French rear, and the number of fires in the game which certainly played a serious part in the French defeat. I have never seen so many fire cards drawn even in battles as large as Trafalgar or the Nile.
Here is a picture of the number drawn.
As the battle developed circumstances forced the AI to make differing decisions to those made in the historical action and it diverged more and more as the game unfolded as can be seen from the maps. All in all an enjoyable game, and one which took a different approach from the normal.
The Butchers Bill.
French.
British.
Great action Rob, will cross this one off my Doncaster list
I was actually going to do this at Doncaster next year Chris.
Rob.
What a marvellous AAR. Very well fought indeed. It is a bit of a bother to me though that those British ships have French and Spanish names. Presumably they were captured at some point? They should have all been renamed with proper English names eg. HMS Alfie, HMS Roast Beef etc etc. What do you think?
Either captures or named in memory of prior captures.
If you have a look here, you can find out all about the captains the battle and at the bottom the Battle order. Hover over the ships names and click and it will take you to the ships biography.
https://sailsofglory.org/showthread....ight=hms+namur
Rob.
Thank you very much for the Rep Gary, I am glad you enjoyed my Trafalgar tribute game, even if the ship names were a bit of a confusion. Strange to say, but when the captured French ships were taken into service they were all given English type names save HMS Mont Blanc.
Unfortunately none were given the epithet HMS Roast Beef, or HMS Yorkshire Pudding for that matter. :wink:
Rob.
Just joking. Mind you, saying Bellerophon caused a lot of problems amongst the unwashed as you have pointed out. :happy:
Nice battle. Really well done!
About the names, by the way, British sailors had their own names for ships with names they thought were hard to pronounce.
Vincy Joe, Billy Ruffian, Eggs and Bacon, Belly Squeaks, Jenny Rooks, Polly Infamous, Andrew Mackay, Dead Nose.
Can you figure out which name hides behind the descriptions?
I know that Billy Ruffian is Bellerophon, and suspect that Polly Infamous is Polyphemus, as for the rest ?
Rob.
Those are correct, Rob, but I suspect you can guess which is Lord Nelson’s favorite ship.
The French ones may be a bit harder.
Vincy Joe is Vincejo, Belly Squeaks is Belliquese, Andrew Mackay is Andromache, Dead Nose is Dedaigneuse. Jenny Rooks = Genereux?
Great AAR Rob. :salute: I ran this battle some years ago at a US show. If I recall correctly I applied post Trafalgar battle damage to several of the ships.
My only concern is that the frigates caused too much damage. I think this would be a good situation to apply Dobb's weight of shot rules!
Yes Eric I agree,
and to think that I nearly left the frigates out until I re-read the action and found out what difference they made. I decided not to deprive Formidable of the guns they cast overside whilst scarpering from Trafalgar. It's a good job that I didn't otherwise the battle would have been over even sooner.
Rob.
Tomorrow i will start dropping in the ship cards for this action in case anyone fancies having a go at it. At the moment I'm clearing up after this weeks game which I ran today.
Rob.
Great AAR, an inspiration for future games :thumbsup:!
Thanks Achim. If it encourages anyone to get started on the write up of their own games it will be well worth the effort.
Rob.
Yep, great AAR, Rob!
I was also surprised at the amount of damage the frigates delivered. Eric, the only thing about my weight of shot rules is that it applies to 12pdr frigates or smaller. I think all the ones in Bligh's engagement were 18 pdrs.
The French should have turned enmass and devoured the frigates before the English 74's could get there. :shock:
What am I saying!? I'm responsible for a number of lost 74's.:wink:
Santa Margarita should be a 12pdr IIRC, I'll have to doublecheck.
You got them all.
I have thought about the difference between frigates and ships of the line before. In the Battle of the Nile there was an incident that clearly showed the power difference and that is hard to recreate in Sails of Glory.
Yes DB. she is a 36 gun 12 lbr.
Aeolus is a 32 gun 18 lbr.
Phoenix a 36 18 lbr.
As far as I know after her capture by the British Revolutionnaire became a 38 gun 18 lbr. but from 1803 she replaced her top deck 18 lbrs. for 32 lbr. Carronades.
Rob.
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