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Ohé matelots,
News reports speak of an encounter between an intrepid vessel of the République (Vive la France!) and one of the enemy English establishment: Read More Here! (at Wargaming.info).
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Scenario Deployment: HMS Sybille (AI) in the foreground, Dryade (P) in the distance, wind blowing right to left (left is North).
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Turn 3: HMS Sybille (AI) gets off her second broadside into Dryade (P)!
Rules
Played straight Basic Rules - nothing from Standard/Advanced nor Optional Rules.
(Did consider using Initial Broadsides, Rakes, and Collision Rules - but decided not to - luckily as it turns out - could have been far worse for the French if I had!)
AI Deployment:
Location Roll 4 (West), Heading Roll 7 (South-South-West).
Turn Summary
Turn 1
Dryade (P): Plays Card 1 – Receives Broadside causing 0, 3, 0 Damage.
HMS Sybille (AI): CDA Roll 6+1 however Taken Aback Card 4 – Fires Larboard Bow Broadside at Range A.
Turn 2
Dryade (P): Plays Card 1
HMS Sybille (AI): ACB Roll 6+1 however Taken Aback Card 4.
Turn 3
Dryade (P): Plays Card 1 – Receives Broadside causing 0, 2C, 1C.
HMS Sybille (AI): BAD Roll 2, Plays Card 5L – Fires Starboard Bow Broadside at Range B.
Turn 4
Dryade (P): Plays Card 9 – COLLISION – Fires Musketry – Receives Broadside & Musketry causing 2, 2C, 1, C.
HMS Sybille (AI): BBD Roll 4+2, Plays Card 9 – COLLISION – Fires Larboard Bow Broadside at Range B + Musketry – Receives Musketry causing 0.
Turn 5
Dryade (P): Plays Card 5R.
HMS Sybille (AI): ABB Roll 3+2, Plays Card 1.
Turn 6
Dryade (P): Plays Card 9 – Fires Full Starboard Broadside at A – Uses AC ability – Receives Broadside causing 4, 3, 0 Damage.
HMS Sybille (AI): CDD Roll 1+2, Card 3 but overridden with Card 1 (due to ending less than ½ ruler from edge of playing area) – Fires Larboard Bow Broadside at A – Receives Broadside Causing 2, 0, 1 Damage +0 Damage (from Dryade’s AC ability).
Turn 7
Dryade (P): Plays Card 9 – Fires Musketry – Receives Broadside & Musketry causing 3, 4, 0, C Damage. Crew over 50% Damage, Roll OK, Captain unwounded. Less than 3 Hull Boxes Left, Rolls a 5 (Must Disengage).
HMS Sybille (AI): ADC Roll 5+1, Plays Card 2 – Fires Starboard Bow Broadside at Range B + Musketry – Receives Musketry causing C damage.
Turn 8
Dryade (P): Flees off the closest edge of the playing area.
HMS Sybille (AI): Victorious.
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Turn 4: Collision about to occur!
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Turn 6: Tight Manoeuvring (this is actually very close to the playing area's edge)
The Final Ships' Logs
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Captain’s Logs:
Capitaine de frégate Josepe Aurèle Géroux [AC] (P) / Returned To Port / No Victories
Commander Crofton Merrick Seward-Beckham (AI) / Returned To Port / Victory (2 points?)
This was my first ever game of SGN - however flowed fairly smoothly and wasn't too difficult - even with playing Solo and doing the extra stuff for that. Biggest challenge was taking the photos at regular points - as it was a bit disruptive to game flow...
For the record it was played Friday Night New Zealand DST (27 February 2015).
Rereading the rules looks like I got everything right first time around and didn't inadvertently muck too much up EXCEPT some firing:
- I did the bow and stern broadsides back to front (even though there's an orientation silhouette on the ship's log) - it would have reduced HMS Sybille's firepower by 1 chit in her last (Turn 7) broadside - so might have resulted in one less hull box damage to Dryade (so not needing to throw to disengage at end of Turn 7)? Oddly enough I was thinking the asymmetrical factors looked a bit odd (and you'd have though you'd align the data left to right the same as you read - i.e. bow of the ship to the right in the direction you read the text)?
- Completely did Musketry wrong - for some reason I only drew 1 chit per ship per turn - both ships fired their musketry twice so net effect would have likely been 1 extra Crew damage each (i.e. 2 volleys with 2 chits instead of 1 chit each equals 2 extra E chits at approximately 50% crew hits = 1 extra hit).
In the basic game it did feel strange not having any negative effects from a collision (and doing the radical veering turn e.g. from a 1 card to a 9 card in successive turns)... Barring the movement planning (time to react) I wouldn't see the rest of the Standard Rules as being too onerous for Solo Play (i.e. Veer, Raking, Special Ammo, and Collision/Overlapping Damage)?
:salute: :happy:
As for Capitaine Géroux's tactics - well that's another matter altogether!
UPDATE for Eric: In the above the Dryade did not exit via the Western Edge (just noticed this reference in Jim's AAR--When the Fog Lifts January 2015 Campaign Scenario (French Privateers) thread). So technically Dryade may not have successfully disengaged and in fact has surrendered?!
:shock: :wink:
Well done AAR, John. Good photos and I like the turn by turn concise summary of what transpired. :thumbsup:
It does seem at this point we have more losers than winners on the January scenario (yup I lost too)!? I'm bringing an ironclad the next time! :wink:
I missed the blog link. Super!
Thank You my good man! :beer:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightmoss
Yep! The French especially seem to be taking a hammering! An Ironclad's probably being conservative! :bleh: :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightmoss
P.S. You did follow the link to my Blog?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightmoss
Yup, when I came back I saw the bolded text and link. Very nicely done there as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mycenius
As for your message above. Only the AI has to leave the Eastern edge of the mat. I went back and saw nothing in Eric's setup saying that Players needed to leave via the Western. So, if you roll for disengage as a player any edge will do. If I missed something I'll claim it's too late to be reading websites. :wink:
Great (and Thanks).Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightmoss
Post 6 First Sentence (30 January). :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightmoss
Great report, John. I'm sorry to hear that success has eluded your captain as well. We'll take our revenge in February's mission, no doubt :drinks:
I guess technically your ship surrendered by going off the wrong edge, but as HMS Sybille wasn't pursuing I don't think it really matters; you could have gone off the correct edge easily enough had you known. IMO that counts as returned to port.
I told you I was too sleep deprived to give the correct answer. Ironically, I'm the one who asked for confirmation that the Player ship needs to leave the western edge. :embarass:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mycenius
Here's Hoping! :takecover: :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozariig
Yeah - I'll leave that to Eric to confirm though - it is his scenario - in fact Dryade was almost on the edge of the playing area so exited to the North (a little on the Western side of the North-South centreline) immediately (hence only 1 turn required to disengage) - but to have exited to West would have been a big challenge, it'd have required about a 270º turn to Starboard across the wind (so would be taken aback for 1-2 turns halfway through the turn) in the face of HMS Sybille's superior firepower and position (with the weather gauge) - so would have been worthy of a medal just for the escape from that position in those conditions!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozariig
:shock: :wink:
Umm, yeah - there is that... :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightmoss
Nice report there John.
I would treat the Western edge or not just as the fog of war.
Bligh.