Galleys, Guns and Glory

At the NWS August Games Day Simon launched his fantastic handcrafted Venetian and Turkish galleys in a premier game based on the Galleys, Guns and Glory rule set by Skull and Crown.  I hope this post does the models proud and that my write up is not too biased or one-sided.

Angus and Marc commanded the Sultan's squadrons, while Simon and I had the Christians.  Specifically I had the Venetian and Maltese ships.

Sails raised purely for aesthetics.

My ships are the eight nearest on the left

My flag ship,

proudly displaying the Lion of St Mark

Some dubious ships in the employ of the Sultan

My ships as seen form the Turkish side

the red dots denote the ship needs to reload

the chits indicate hull or crew loss.

The pirates had an excellent opening bombardment,

scoring hits with all guns,

including the big gun that scores double.

Ouch!

The Turks score the first sink/wreck

The Venetians defeat the Sultans's ships they were facing,

although they had lost one ship and others had suffered severe damage.

One Maltese ship was sunk, but they too were victorious

However it was not such a good story for the other Christian ships

and things were probably in the balance.

A close up to show off the detail 

of these balsa, wood, plastic and paper creations

the oars are from a brush