Yesterday July 13, I took some ships over to Joathan Freitag's house for an afternoon game of Kiss Me Hardy. This being his first age of sail game, and my first with a real gamer, we kept it small. Four ships to a side, American vs British.
I rolled the Americans and experienced an initial disaster once the wind was rolled. My squadron was dead into the wind and I had to roll for damage for each ship. Constitution took 5DP and lost her foremast right off the bat. Fortunately my other ships escaped damage.
The British had the weather guage and this advantage told through out the game. The Americans lost badly after a four hour slug match, with every ship striking to the overwhelming British onslaught.
Jonathan has posted a great AAR for our game on his blog at: https://palousewargamingjournal.blogspot.com/2023/07/kiss-me-hardy.html?m=1
Hopefully it won't be too long before we can do this again.
12 comments:
Great fun, Vol! With luck (and the wind) we can get back to the table for another game soon.
How di you both like the rules? I have quite a few 1:1200 Napoleonic sailing ships (and metal for a fgew additional, if the bug bites me), and at least 4 more rules sets to try when I eventually get around to it
Excellent that you and Jonathan were finally able to get together and have a game after learning you were so close in proximity. You both seem like such nice people. 😀
What a treat for Jon to see the ships up close and personal.
On his blog I see some smoke/broadside markers. Those look interesting. Any chance to give some details on how they were made?
Yes it was really nice to finally meet Jon for a game, and hopefully many more in the future. He is just about an hour drive from my place.
I just rolled up some balls of cotton and glued them to a strip of clear acetate rescued from some bubble packaging. Pretty simple.
C'mon, Stew! You know that I am a nice guy. Right? I am sure Vol and I will meet on the field of battle again. A replay of this action would be fun especially if the wind is more favorable to both.
Ah. Thanks bunches. 😀
True. I know it in my heart. And from experience.
A great looking game on both blogs, good to see your lovely ships in battle!
Best Iain
Hey Vol!
I just saw your KMH report. Looks like a fun game day. I am just back from Historicon running KMH with Langton's. Another member of the Lard America crew ran part of Trafalgar using the 1/700 Warlord ships, which were rigged following JJ Wargames tutorials. That is a great blog if you haven't seen it. He has every ship for Trafalgar fully rigged.
I don't use the taken aback rule as written, it is far too harsh unless the wind is strong. Thinking about a chance for minor rigging damage only unless the Getting Choppy card is played then you can have a sprung foremast. I have been using some modifications, mostly from Brian Weathersby's article in The TFL Christmas special 2011 that gives some variety to the ships by using broadside weight for gun dice and tonnage for DP. Might be worth a look.
I don't post much about my KMH games on the Anchorage because it is for SoG after all!!
Eric
Hey Eric, long time bud! I haven't been on the Anchorage for awhile now. Yes I follow JJ's blog. Beautiful ships and concise histories to go with them. Very enjoyable reading.
I think the taken aback rules are a bit harsh as well, but it is something that actually happened with sailing ships. I would love to read Brian's TFL article, but I have no idea how to get hold of a copy now.
Nice to hear from you Eric, thanks for stopping by.
Here is a link to the magazine with the article in the TFL shop.
https://toofatlardies.co.uk/product/2011-christmas-special/
Cheers
Eric
Thanks Eric, I sent Brian an email about it and just to catch up.
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