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Ahoy thar!
Hi my names Trevor, I'm from Victoria in Australia.
I haven't yet taken the plunge and bought the game yet as I where I live, historical gaming is near to non existant apart from a couple of FoW players. GW and similar Fast Food games have too strong a grip on would be gamers.
Most of my gaming is solo which is fine, but nothing beats playing head to head against a real player.
I play mostly WoG, (I'm Roger Wilco on the Aerodrome site), X-Wing and some of the THW Solo games like Nuts in 28mm and All Things Zombie in 15mm / HO scale. Being a solo gamer I tend to spend more time painting figures and making terrain and buildings to play with. I just love a cluttered wargaming table, the gaming has taken a bit of a back seat.
I saw this game go through the Kick starter but I wasn't sure what I thought so I didn't take the leap of faith, but have been lurking around here on and off and I am liking what I see. I used to play Napoleonic Naval using a miniatures version of Wooden Ships & Iron Men by Avalon Hill that I rewrote myself. I used to play using GHQ ships and used to painstackingly rig the models, spending way too much time on each. I still have those ships but they are slowly getting damaged when handled by others. I imagine the SoG models are fairly robust and with some PE ratlines and some rigging I'm sure they will be a tougher still. I hope to buy a couple of ships in a couple of weeks to rebuild and repaint and later I'll buy the starter set if I can find one that doesn't require a kings ransom in postage.
The Avatar I have chosen is of HMVS Nelson 120 guns entering the newly opened Alfred Graving Dock at Williamstown, where I was born and raised. There are remnants of the Nelson all over Williamstown and rural Victoria, ie figurehead, anchors and cannon. The Nelson was sent to protect Port Phillip under the Defence of Colonies Act. Upon arrival she was turned into a reformatory and a sail training ship. Over the years The Nelson was slowly modernised by being eventually stripped of two gun decks and becoming a single masted Steam Frigate. She ended her life as a coal hulk in Tasmania and then chopped up for building materials. It was said her timbers were found to be in condition. The last of her remains were set on fire in !924.
My Profile photo is of me in 1988 at the helm of HMS Warrior at Portsmouth. I'm dressed in wet weather gear because the day I was there it was drizzle through thick fog and I could only see things at 100 feet or closer. It was a very eerie experience but its an amazing place to visit.
Enough for the moment and If you need me I'll down in the bilge fattening up some rats I caught last night.
Trevor
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