A return to Marauder HQ still looks a while off so a splash about in warm waters seems in order. Tony has painted about 15 Royal Navy ships & I am working through a Danish fleet so I decided to have a bash at the Black Seas game from Warlord Games. I proxied some RN ships as Franco Danish & set up this encounter. A Royal Navy fleet leaves harbour to be greeted by enemies laying in wait. The rules seem straight forward enough for a numpty like me to pick up which is encouraging.
The following is a few snaps of the fledgeling collection in action.
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The Royal Navy leaves harbour sailing into open waters between two headlands.
All looking rather splendid. |
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| The left-hand French colume prepares to attack. |
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| The right-hand colume, Danish, gets ready to attack. |
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| The opposing fleets begin to close. The smaller Brigs break from the line to harass each other. |
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| Red hot "heated shot" can be lethal - especially if dropped setting your own ship on fire! A nice little rule that almost dominated the game - even at sea fire can spread! |
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| Things start to get close & personal. Except for the Danish squadron which took the long root around the tiddly island ensuring they were barely engaged at close quarters. |
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| he big RN 1st Rate never really exerted the kind of pressure we were fearful of. |
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| Cute little seaside residence, no visitors in 2021... |
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| It's a very pretty game & will get more so as more ships get finished with flags bases etc. |
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| The action in the centre. |
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| The Danish squadron finally rounds the island only to find the RN have disappeared! |
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| The Danish 3rd Rate in the foreground came off worse in the exchange with an RN Frigate! |
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| Various ships are on fire, one has blown up & a few are about to run aground. |
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| Fires spread along the Danish line, a rudder jammed by damage & that burning 3rd Rate is about to hit the rocks... this sailing malarky isn't as easy as I thought! |
The Royal Navy win a close game, lots of lessons learned. Loads of crazy fun, Black Seas has legs as a pick-up & play with beers & mates game. Lots of fun to had & areas of the rules to explore.
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| One of my Danish 3rd Rates - work in progress. She needs the ratlines adding & a sculpted base. The clear plastic ones pictured don't appeal for these models. They will do very well with my WW2 Pacific fleets though. |
That's your lot for this little outing. No doubt I'll report back on the fleet's progress & further games, possibly with expanded reporting. The next batch of Napoleonic 10mm's are in transit, once arrived we can base them & at some point get back to BIG battle Napoleonic games again at Marauder HQ.
Stay safe & well, very best wishes,
