The Battle of Cape St Quendon

As has seemingly become an annual event, I travelled up to the Herts Volunteers to put on a large Sails of Glory game.  This year’s game was loosely based on the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797 which saw both HMS Victory and Nelson featuring albeit not together.  Here are some photos from the game:

As with the historical engagement the game was a victory for the British.

Battle of Ushant 1778

In the latter part of last year I popped over to the Herts Volunteers to put on our annual Sails of Glory game.  This year I decided to do something a little earlier than the usual Napoleonic engagement largely so I could get HMS Victory onto the table.  I picked part of the First Battle of Ushant in July 1778.

Here are some photos from the game:

Battle of Quendon Bay

The other week a friend and I put on a larger Sails of Glory game at the Herts Volunteers.  This one was a fictional encounter inspired by the Battle of the Nile but allowed the French to react to the British fleet thus making it a more interesting game for them.

I put together some coastal terrain for the game the weekend before and, as always with such projects would do some of it differently next time but you live and learn.

We had a mixed group of players some of whom had played before but several had not.  They picked up the rules pretty quickly and all seemed to enjoy the game.  We played with most of the advanced and optional rules but not variable wind strength - which was probably a good decision as the variable wind direction gave the French something of a challenge by itself!

Here are some photos of the game:

Sails of Glory

At the last club meeting I ran a couple of scenarios to introduce two new players to Sails of Glory.  The first scenario was from the historical scenario book - Combat, finally! off Vigo, Spain.

The scenario sees HMS Bellona accompanied by a frigate, after months of uneventful patrolling meeting a small group of French ships leading to an immediate engagement.  The second scenario was more of a pick up affair using the ships from the base game box.  Here are a few photos from them:

Sails of Glory

In the vein of catching up on some missed posts, I hadn't posted anything about a large game of Sails of Glory that a friend of mine suggested putting on at the Herts Volunteers club.  Between us we have a decent collection of ships (and mine has grown since) and the game is really easy to pick up.  We didn't include all the optional rules as, I think, all the players were new to the system but we did include the variable wind direction.  Here are some photos of the game: