AAR: October 2016 Solo mission: "A clean pair of heels”.

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Octobers Solo mission: "A clean pair of heels”.





“AArrhghhhh my ‘arties. So there we wuz wi’this captured Spaniard like. So Jim sez”We’ve all the time in the world lets beech the ship and fix the hull”. So wot Jim sez, we did.



We wuz anchored in this luvely little bay we wuz....

Well we were there for a’while like afor’n oor lookout spotted a sail in the next bay. “Tom, I think the lad was asleep in yonder tree”, Jim sed. Ah sed ‘A think you’re reet Cap’n’. Aa caal’d ‘im Cap’n ‘cause the ladz wuz neer at hand.
Whin aall ovuh suddin’ like, this greet big Spaniard cum rund the corner into the bay. She was fairly shiftin’, all sail piled on and oot t’get us she waz.





Jim sent iz ower t’the Spanish ship to tek charge. Wee hoisted anchor and set sail together. But the Spaniard was slow due to the hasty patch uyp job ‘nd Jim knew we culdn’t dee mor’an a few knots. So the Big fewell that he wuz, Jim, took the Big E towards the Spaniard, a big 74 like, to give us a chance to git away.

Jim got the furst shot in, man it was a gud’n. The Spaniard wuz cumin hell for leather like a whippet oot o’the trap t’git me and the captured Spaniard like. That madam is a dog, smaller than a greyhound, but fast and the trap is the box it is kept in alongside other like minded whippets before they are let loose to run the race to catch the hare! Noo cannah git on with the story?





He did canney gud. Fore the Spaniard caught fire in it’s foresail, the one at the front madam before you ask, ‘nd a mast went doon, aah think it was the mizzen, yes madam the one at the back...you’re learning, and a few other sails to boot. Man Jim had fairly clattered the big Spaniard.

So the Spaniard kept on cumin and they fired at the big E. Ah cud see the Spaniard was directly across from us so I ordered the guns to fire as they were in sight of the enemy....so She got a big smack right across her bows. Ahh knew we wud only git 1 or 2 shots in if’n we wuz lucky.





So the Spaniard turned to fire it’s port side guns as the Big E, with Jim at the helm, turned across her bows....and gave her anuthah slap.







From reet close in. But the Spaniard got a shot off at us and nearly done for us too she did.
Well that but aall knocked the stuffin’ oot o’the Spaniard. But her captain waz still game, gottah givim that noo.



So with the guns eventually loaded, I gave her what for again, as the Big E slapped her behind.



Dismasted and badly done too, the Spaniard struck her colours. It was afterwards we lurned her captain ‘nd most of th’officers had gone doon wi’the last salvo from me and it wuz the remaining officer that struck.



Butchers Bill:


Heroe: 8+ hull boxes damaged/8 crew lost/2 masts gone/holed/Sank after being abandoned.


Goliath: +1 hull box lost/1 crew lost (all yellow boxes were from previous scenario ‘Intercept’.
Terminus Est: 1 hull box/1 crew lost (yellow boxes were crew transferred to Goliath)