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#1

Tabletop AARs / Re: Scorpion and Wyvern 1870

Last post by MengJiao - Today at 12:07:57 PM

So what do you think of the rules?  I am kind of interested in finding something like Yaquinto's old Ironclads...a game I truly enjoyed. GMT's Iron and Oak left me a little cold.

   Yep.  Oak and Iron was curiously unexciting.  However, I've approached the business of ironclads from a different angle this time around and I might have been more tolerant of Oak and Iron...but what's past is past.  The thing is until the last year or so I've never liked miniatures much.  But then I started tinkering with the idea of dioramas for book trailers.  On impulse, I got some nice 1:600 ships...and the thing is, ironclads are pretty good in the miniature realm (slow, short range, absurd things like ramming and spar torpedoes etc.).
Okay so, for me, what is cool about the sail and steam system is the very nice ship "cards" and the 1:1200 printable models.
The rules are crude but effective and if you have the time and space and tolerance for miniatures (paper ones -- I do glue them to cardstock, I guess I could print them on cardstock but gluing seems to be my thing with little boats)
oh and LOTS of 10-sided dice...the rules seem okay and pretty simple.
The guns and armor seem to work reasonably well and have a more satisfying level of detail for penetration and damage and so on than in Oak and Iron.

#2

Tabletop AARs / Re: Scorpion and Wyvern 1870

Last post by ArizonaTank - Today at 08:57:49 AM

So what do you think of the rules?  I am kind of interested in finding something like Yaquinto's old Ironclads...a game I truly enjoyed. GMT's Iron and Oak left me a little cold.

#3

Tabletop AARs / Re: Scorpion and Wyvern 1870

Last post by MengJiao - Today at 08:49:17 AM

HMS Scorpion and HMS Wyvern were originally built for the Confederacy (and they show up in
Fall of the Samurai).  After the mess with CSS Alabama , they were bought by the Royal Navy (after briefly being Egyptian and making a big profit for the middlemen involved)
Anyway, here we suppose an alternative world where the Confederacy saves Mexico from the rapacious French using those Ironclade turret ships versus the more conventional French Ironclads Thetis and Joan d'Arc.  Of course in 1870 the Spartan beauty pageant poems where Thetis rules the seas had not been found and Joan wasn't yet canonized to full sainthood so North Carolina II and Mississippi II should have some metaphysics on their side:

Nearly invisible in the murky ocean of alternative time-ime-ime things are getting critical:  the French are running straight and lining up their guns and have blown a lot off the upper stern off of Mississippi II.  The Confederates have slightly better guns and slightly better armor, but the French are slightly faster and quite capable as rams so the Confederates want to keep the range at about 500 yards to avoid surprises and do some damage:

#4

Tabletop AARs / Scorpion and Wyvern 1870

Last post by MengJiao - Today at 06:47:01 AM

HMS Scorpion and HMS Wyvern were originally built for the Confederacy (and they show up in
Fall of the Samurai).  After the mess with CSS Alabama , they were bought by the Royal Navy (after briefly being Egyptian and making a big profit for the middlemen involved)
Anyway, here we suppose an alternative world where the Confederacy saves Mexico from the rapacious French using those Ironclade turret ships versus the more conventional French Ironclads Thetis and Joan d'Arc.  Of course in 1870 the Spartan beauty pageant poems where Thetis rules the seas had not been found and Joan wasn't yet canonized to full sainthood so North Carolina II and Mississippi II should have some metaphysics on their side:

#5

Tabletop AARs / Re: Sail and Steam: 1870

Last post by MengJiao - May 06, 2024, 06:18:00 PM

Historically, the French armored corvette Thetis did some reconnaissance of the German coast during the Franco-Prussian war.  In this Scenario, a fast German Ironclad tries to run down the somewhat sluggish Thetis.  The French Ironclad Ocean (of End of the Samurai fame) intervenes.

In ten minutes of steaming and firing, a few things happen: mostly at ranges of around seven or eight hundred yards, most shots miss.  One French 10-inch rifled breech-loader blows up but one French 10.8-inch shot penetrates the German Ironclad in the main battery amidships.  A big explosion and fire results: a gun battery of 8.2-inch Krupps is wrecked and the armor blown away with significant hull damage and crew suppression.
Which is a surprise, though I guess the 8.2 Krupps was always an ill-fated caliber:

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Tabletop AARs / Sail and Steam: 1870

Last post by MengJiao - May 06, 2024, 06:09:39 PM

Historically, the French armored corvette Thetis did some reconnaissance of the German coast during the Franco-Prussian war.  In this Scenario, a fast German Ironclad tries to run down Thetis.  The French Ironclad Ocean (of End of the Samurai fame) intervenes.  Here are the ship specs ( from the Sail and Steam game):

#7

Digital Gaming AARs / Re: AAR for Second Front

Last post by Uberhaus - May 05, 2024, 01:47:16 PM

Not having much exposure to art, I'm still not comprehending.  I'm your worst pupil.

So, I'll move onto puns:  Don't take everything I say literally. 

That definitely needs even more help.

#8

Digital Gaming AARs / Re: AAR for Second Front

Last post by JasonPratt - May 05, 2024, 12:22:47 PM

Actually, I myself thought the vowels were alliteration, and was complementing you on also getting some assonance with the consonants!

So I was also mixed up.

#9

Digital Gaming AARs / Re: AAR for Second Front

Last post by Uberhaus - May 05, 2024, 08:34:30 AM

"More than just atrocious alliteration on my part, I aaapologise!"

It's also assonance! 

Anyway, I attempted to allocate award-points appropriately, but alas: nothing fit so take my points.

Wow, thanks! 

As to my inability to distinguish poetic devices, you'll just have to bear with my naivety!  So, to demonstrate that one person has learned something from this whole exercise: As to assonance, I won't be an ass and assume that the use of a, e, i, o and u again and again is alliteration; it is assonance.  I will constantly contrive to commit the continuance of consonants classifies as alliteration.

#10

Digital Gaming AARs / Re: AAR for Second Front

Last post by JasonPratt - May 04, 2024, 08:27:13 PM

"More than just atrocious alliteration on my part, I aaapologise!"

It's also assonance! 

Anyway, I attempted to allocate award-points appropriately, but alas: nothing fit so take my points.