I might put some type of hash mark to set mine apart. I will do something similar with card decks.
I might put some type of hash mark to set mine apart. I will do something similar with card decks.
I already did that with two of my WoG maneuver decksOriginally Posted by 7eat51
Probably will do the same to SoG material, too.
I'm not sure which prototype this is. As I understand it, we were playing with an earlier prototype and a later one.
Here's the other.
And the game gets underway. I'm in the lead 3rd rate, with my friend Dave playing the other.
Our frigates are downwind. Directly across from us are the two French frigates. We slip between the two islands, and head for the frigates. The frigates plot a course for us. That's gutsy.
Dave and I begin to trade fire with the French.
They are taking a beating. I turn into the wind while they turn with the wind. I guess they are trying to make a run for it.
A look down the board. The French frigates are in really bad shape at this point. Neither have been destroyed, but by the end of the game they were both out of commission, as I recall.
I can honestly say I was surprised at how much I liked this game. I had my expectations set really high (though I suppose nowhere near as high as you who have been playing Age of Sail for years) and Sails of Glory beat them by a long sea mile.
The game ran for two hours, and I'd guess 30 minutes of that was rules explanations. By the end of the game at least two frigates were reduced to hulks, with little or no damage to our 3rd rates.
What happened at the other end of the board, I can't say. However, my intention was to really give this game a try, so I played two more times. Once more as the Defence, in a game with an almost identical setup, but different outcome. And finally as a British frigate, downwind of my compatriots.
I'll relate those stories tomorrow.
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