Dark age and Medieval warship

[FierceKitty]

Shhh....he's having a "road to Damascus" moment.

[Raider4]

Interesting. What rules would cover this sort of 'dark ages' naval wargaming?

[fsn]

From what I can recall, it seemed to be a lot of arrow work and boarding. No ramming (deliberate, anyway).

Probably a bit like ancient galley warfare without the bronze beak.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

You can hear the cogs turning!

[Ithoriel]

Many moons ago I had a set of Medieval naval warfare rules from a magazine (long since forgotten which) and it not only included archery and boarding, weather and navigation but also the use of weapons like flour and quicklime thrown downwind to blind opponents.

Our final game ended with one cog per side still afloat in a raging storm, both dismasted and driven by the wind and still hurling quicklime and flour as the wind direction permitted.

Not sure how accurate they were but the games were a hoot!

Confucius he say,"Man who spit into wind get his own back!"

[d_Guy]

That would be an AAR worth reading! 

[GrumpyOldMan]

Interesting. What rules would cover this sort of 'dark ages' naval wargaming?

Hello

Two free ones - and http://shaun-wargaming-minis.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/medieval-naval-warfare-in-channel-first.html. Also one from the Wargame Vault http://www.wargamevault.com/product/154102/Lord-of-the-Sea?affiliate_id=368817

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[paulr]

The first free link appears as a blank square and doesn't go anywhere

http://staineswargamers.org/Webrules/RulesAwayWithHonour.html

Replacing the img tags with url seems to have fixed it

[Westmarcher]

For miniature cogs you could try making your own out of balsa wood, building them up 'sandwich' style as per Donald Featherstone's dreadnoughts in his Naval Wargames book. I've made dreadnoughts in the past and its a very simple process so cogs should be relatively easy. It also gives you the advantage of deciding what scale to use. Crenellations in the fore and aft castles could be dealt with by the appropriate cutting and application of strips of paper or card plus, depending on the scale chosen, the mast can be a cocktail stick or piece of wooden dowling. Me? I'm tempted to try out the above rules using the miniature galleons I have from the board game, Buccaneer! 

[Orcs]

After the obliquey unjustly heaped on his head recently it seemed churlish to pick on this!

He was found guilty by a Jury of his peers 

[fsn]

For miniature cogs you could try making your own out of balsa wood,

No. I couldn't.

[Ithoriel]

No. I couldn't.

MDF bases - layers of pill-shaped ones for the hull, square ones for the castles, cocktail stick for the mast, paper or light card for the sail. Simples!

Work out the sizes you need and talk nicely to Leon about getting them cut.

[fsn]

Hmmmm .... you interest me strangely! 

[Leman]

 

You can hear the cogs turning!

Well I for one thought that was very amusing.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Thank you, I wondered if anyone had read it!