The Loose Association of Wargamers

Further to some recent posts, it sounds like there's interest in a LAW get-together to play an Age of Sail game in 1/1200.
I'm certainly on for this and thought it worth a thread to see where it takes us.

Perhaps we can collate ideas, available ships (and sea boards/cloths, scenery, etc) and, depending on what size of game we envisage, we can then see what rules might fit.

I'll go and dig out my ships and post again later with what I can contribute.

Hopefully it's an opportunity to try something different.

Yes I most certainly am!
I have nothing as yet and probably won’t get my ships finished until post Ayton...

An ‘on the day campaign’ could be quite good - we could perhaps play it fairly historical and have multiple tables to keep the games simple...?
French/Spanish ships attempting to leave blockades to concentrate on a larger central table....
We could vary rules from the narrative smaller actions to a grander scale ruleset for a major set battle...
There is so much you could do with this! Aghhhh excitement!

Captain Purplewood, HMS Euryalus.

Oh it could just be me, you and Gary hunched over a 6x4 laughing at my frigates being sunk... lol

Are 1/1200 the little ones?

I’m keen. Don’t have any ships, but happy to play

I inherited a load of Navwar 1/1200 Napoleonic ships.....very basic in their finish.....and I have no idea what ships the models represent, so I may have to be a bit generic in that respect.

Count Belisarius wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 3:36 pm Are 1/1200 the little ones?

They are significantly larger than a Standard Reference Braeburn Apple. (SRB)

1/3000 are the real tiddlers. I sold all my 1/1200years ago (like a f****** mug would ) but I seem to remember 74s being around 4/5cm long

I have two home made Napoleonic fleets of about 15 ships each -Brits and French- made last century and constructed of balsa hulls with removable toothpick masts and painted paper sails. Each of the 120/90's are about 3" long and so on down to frigates at about 2" in length.

I have 8 British ships, ranging from 100 guns at the top end down to a 44 and a 36 gun frigate at the smaller end, plus 5 French with 98 guns the largest and 50 the smallest. With another 2 or 3 French ships that's enough for an evenings entertainment for half a dozen people if we use Blood, Bilge and Iron Balls

Really good idea for a set of linked scenarios Purps, that summarises a lot of what the French and allies, and the British, were attempting to do for much of the 1793-1815 period. I have the following:

British
98, 64, 2 frigates, Brig, Cutter

French
120, 2 frigates, Brig, Cutter

Spanish
112, 2 74s, Brig

Dutch
4th rate, frigate

There are also some British and French 74s in the shipyard