What was the last rules set you played 2020

[FierceKitty]

I'm interested in seeing how these rules evolve

Kind of you to say how, not if.

[Scorpio_Rocks]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game?             Men Who Would be Kings
2) What armies were confronted?                              British Vs Sudanese
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset?               Very
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset?   Nope!
5) How many players were in the game?                     2
6) What went well?                                                 Lots of fun
7) What could have been improved?                          as always... My dice rolling!

[FierceKitty]

Fleets bashing each other again; rules much improved, though I suspect not at their final stage yet. No sinkings yet, but damage is mounting faster than it can be repaired.

[FierceKitty]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game?             Rum, Buggery, and the Lash
2) What forces were confronted?                                British vs Allies
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset?               Far more than previously; we've ironed out 80% + of the bugs.
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset?   Nope!
5) How many players were in the game?                     2
6) What went well?                                                   We captured five French ships of the line and Fort S. Genevieve; no ships sunk on either side, though the Colossus was in a right
                                                                             mess by the end of the day.
7) What could have been improved?                           A cheat sheet will speed play a lot.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Not many ships were sunk by gunfire, as they are wooden.

[steve_holmes_11]

Not many ships were sunk by gunfire, as they are wooden.

I'd often wondered about this, since it's an areas where rules differ a great deal.
Some have the victims sink fairly fast and occasionally explode
Others make a point of having wreckage lingering about causing a bit of a navigation hazard.

I even recall one book of "Rules for all eras" whose age of sail rules made no provision for sinking.
I suspect that was an oversight.
While understanding that most wood is floaty stuff, I suspect the presence of 72 - 104 cannon would  have quite an impact on net buoyancy.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

You are right, particularly in heavy weather, but a very high proportion were due to explosions, naked flames and gun powder don't mix well !

[steve_holmes_11]

You are right, particularly in heavy weather, but a very high proportion were due to explosions, naked flames and gun powder don't mix well !

That makes a lot of sense, even the smaller sort of explosion  may blow a big hole beneath the waterline.

Do you (or any others here) have an idea of the relative changce of sinking between big ships of the line and the smaller boats encountered in pirate engagements.
Simple "common sense" suggests to me that pirate boats with fewer guns and a bit more tendency for boarding action, might be less prone to sinking from battle damage.

(Far be it for me to impune their chosen alternative lifestyle, but a contrasting view might imply that the piratey types were prone to a bit less iron discipline when it came to powder handling).

[Ithoriel]

I'm not aware of too many explosions afloat in the Age of Sail but lots of ships seem to have foundered in bad weather - especially in the aftermath of battle where already damaged ships, especially prizes, often seem to founder.

L'Orient at the Nile is probably the most famous example of a ship going bang! It's fame is down to the unusual nature of the event, I'd suggest.

I imagine smaller ships were even more likely to succumb to storms and bad navigation being less able to withstand the elements.

A quick look at some of the largest losses of life afloat in at 18th century also suggests that bad weather was more likely to sink ships than explosions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_maritime_disasters_in_the_18th_century

[Steve J]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Black Powder II with the Glory Hallelujah supplement.
2) What armies were confronted? - Union v Confederate ACW.
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Pretty much
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No.
5) How many players were in the game? - Two
6) What went well? - The Confederate shooting was pretty good and the scenario from the GH! book gave a nice game, even with our tweaks for a mid-week game.
7) What could have been improved? - The Union shooting and some of the Brigades didn't move that much.

[Dave Fielder]

... The Union Commanders could have been improved but the gene pool is somewhat limited with the dross Washington is sending out to the army!!

[ronan]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Chain of Command : 1st round for the Gembloux campaign
2) What armies were confronted? - 1940 German vs French
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No.
5) How many players were in the game? - Two
6) What went well? - The Scenario was very interesting. The game was fun, and we had to think a lot.
7) What could have been improved? - The german bombed the village with stukas ! ( Seriously, at the end I was tired and forget to deploy some supports .. )

( as usual I wrote an AAR : http://2d6.fr/?p=4803 )

[FierceKitty]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game?            IACTA ALEA EST!
2) What armies were confronted?                             Norse and Byzantines
3)  Happy with these rules?                                  Why do you keep asking this silly question?
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset?   vide supra
5) How many players were in the game?                    2
6) What went well?                                                  My saving rolls were absurdly good, and the opposition's really weak. My morale went wibbley for a mment, but we recovered well.
7) What could have been improved?                          I forgot that the bondi were disciplined troops; missed two rounds of movement after bad control rolls that did not in fact apply to them. Nobody to blame but myself.

[Westmarcher]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Chain of Command : 1st round for the Gembloux campaign
2) What armies were confronted? - 1940 German vs French .......
....... ( as usual I wrote an AAR : http://2d6.fr/?p=4803 )

Interesting looking game. It was also fun for a short while trying to remember my schoolboy French and then comparing my efforts to your English translation - a couple of daft translations on my part, e.g., "The Germans left their heads in the fields ...."      

[ronan]

Interesting looking game. It was also fun for a short while trying to remember my schoolboy French and then comparing my efforts to your English translation - a couple of daft translations on my part, e.g., "The Germans left their heads in the fields ...."   :-   

I thank you ! 

I do not translate exactly  - an Italian proverb says : "traduttore, traditore" (translator, traitor)    - and I'm sometimes a bit lazy 
"The germans raised their heads from the fields"  ?