Now I have completed the rigging of all my ships I am now turning my attention to some merchantmen for convoy scenarios.
My intention is to use some of my old 1/1200 two decker and smaller frigates as these merchantmen, as they are a smaller scale Im hoping they will look the part instead of being warships.

Which leads me to a question.

How many ships would be usable, gamewise, to represent a convoy.

2, 3 to 5 or 6 to 10.

I think more than 10 would be unwieldy and would get in the way of the action as I envisage the merchantmen being eye candy rather than playing pieces, but what do you think ?