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For firing arcs, I may split the base diagonally into four sections/arcs more or less like the bases in X-Wing, if anyone is familiar with that. These would use the fore and aft arcs, and pivot guns...

Well, here's a small flotilla with four (presumably heavy) guns fore and two aft. I will also be painting up some with pivot guns, which may get mixed in with the others on two bases or form their...

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That's a good point, although maybe slightly less applicable for the type of small, improvised gunboats used by the United States and Britain in the War of 1812, given that they weren't really blue...

At this point in my thinking, it makes sense to me for them to use the most maneuverable movement deck while ignoring the wind direction, although I'm not sure about speed. For a group of gunboats...

Update: I bought three one-cannon gunboats (with sails and/or oars) from Langton. I think I'm going to put all three on one base and deploy them as a group. I have some ideas for rules, but I'll...

Depending on whether I can economically commission a friend to paint ships for me, I may pick up some oar-optional gunboats and such from Langton for Great Lakes actions down the line.

Have any of you experimented with rules for (at least partially) oar-powered vessels, like those of the Swedish Archipelago Fleet? Have you modified any models?