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They might have an easier time than you think.

I ran something similar recently: two pirate frigates vs one each of British and French 74s, with the pirates trapped in a downwind cove to start....

I was using my old (~10 years) Olympus µ Tough; it's the ruggedised waterproof version of their standard compact digital.

And yup, those are stuns'l booms. We did have the stuns'ls set for a day...

I thought y'all might like to know that I've started uploading my pics from my time sailing HMB Endeavour across the Gulf of Carpentaria. There are some very nice images there; I'm quite happy with...

This is pretty much why I did it. I found that when I was running multiple ships, it was easy to get confused and apply damage or load guns or somesuch on the wrong ship. It's a lot easier to...

Looks good to me...

With varnish, lots of thin coats is usually the way to go (you get less pooling/streaking/filling that way). There are about a dozen coats of varnish on mine, but each coat is...

Were you after the darker "weathered" look...


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...or the more pale version?

This was solo, mostly to show off my freshly painted ships. :-) I didn't want to annoy my regular opponents by making them wait for photos between each turn.

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Craig

...which is why I'm considering nerfing doubleshot (probably by reducing its maximum range, possibly all the way down to musketry distance) and don't like the "first broadside" rules. Both are...

It seems to be a purely iPad bit of weirdness; it looks like the rotations applied by the iPad Camera and Photos apps are done in a manner that isn't recognised by anything non-Apple. Shifting them...

Okay: I'm about to finish reading through Kent's Bolitho books. So: what next?

I've already read all of Patrick O'Brian (Aubrey/Maturin, The Golden Ocean, his biography of Banks...), C.S. Forester...

AFAIK, the "guns awash" problem was mostly an issue for multi-deck ships (i.e. not frigates). The SOL advantage in heavy seas is one of greater inertia and taller masts; less buffeted by the weather,...

Yup; see http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?2264-Ship-Mat-Mounting-Plywood

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Craig

Battle report

Early morning in the South Pacific; the British to the north are already in full daylight, while the French further to the south are just seeing the sun rise. Courageuse and Generaux...

I've found a strange thing when attempting to upload pictures to this site: it doesn't recognise iPad/iPhone image realignment.

If I turn off the orientation lock on my iPad and rotate it so that...

Just while we're on the topic of book recommendations: Lindsay Davis' Falco novels are a series of extremely fun noir-ish detective novels set in Rome during the reign of Vespasian. The character's...

I've read most of them, and they're fun, but they're definitely second-tier. Don't bother unless you've already run out of Aubrey/Maturin and Hornblower (Walter Jon Williams' Gentlemen and Privateers...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GlassCannon

(Warning: TVTropes link. Major timewasting hazard)

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Craig

There's basically only four ships in the first wave; balanced frigate, glass cannon frigate, and two closely-matched but subtly different 74s. There'll be more variety in the game once Wave 2 hits;...

Lovely; I like the lookout platform out on the bowsprit...

Endeavour's only a replica, but she's accurate from the mess deck up. And they salvaged a bit of the ballast that the original dumped...

Ring of Destruction

A wild conflict rages around a remote island. All against all, the battle rages chaotically over the seas as more ships, large and small, continuously pour into the fray. Smoke...

BTW, see below for a video tour. Facebook links, but they should be publicly visible:

Mastvid https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150334505334973

Deckvid...

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Yup. :-)

Foremast watch, Thursday Island to Darwin. Major fun.

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Craig

I like the sail damage; if I was introducing that, though, I'd apply it to all collisions, friendly or hostile.

Good to have a reason to avoid full sail in combat, though. I've been using "double...

Depends on the ship and the situation; most decently built ships could make at least some upwind progress in most conditions. With a good ship and a lot of searoom (so you don't have to tack much),...

What colour scheme and details are you planning on using?

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Craig