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#1

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 of 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:

#2

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:

#3

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:

#4

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):

#5

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.

#6

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.

#7

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.

#8

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.

#9

Digital Gaming AARs / AAR for Second Front

Last post by Uberhaus - May 04, 2024, 03:33:42 PM

I posted an AAR for Second Front, playing a workshop designer's monthly contest.  It's my first guide, hopefully Second Front players can pick up some tips.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3238701153

#10

Tabletop AARs / More Hastings

Last post by MengJiao - April 07, 2024, 06:17:18 AM

I decided to try some "what-ifs"  so I tried "What if Tostig had Joined his older brother Harold?" plus
"What if the Papacy had sent some mercenaries as well as cash and a banner and a proto-anti-English crusading encyclical?"

It seems the mercenaries would have been enough since here they are chewing through the center of the English array: