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Grand Fleet Actions in the Age of Sail Edition 2.0
Grand Fleet Actions in the Age of Sail Edition 2.0
by A & A Game Engineering (2003)
Player Count
2

Player Ages
12+
Categories
  • Nautical
  • Dice
  • Wargame
  • Miniatures
  • Napoleonic
  • American Revolutionary War
  • Designers
  • David Manley
  • Alan Butler
  • Mechanisms
  • Simulation
  • Family
  • History: French Revolutionary Wars
  • History: Nine Years War
  • History: War of Austrian Succession
  • History: Anglo-Spanish War
  • Player Count: Two Player Only Games
  • Rating: 7/10 from 6 users

    Description

    SHIPS: Description and Definition of the ships; Clean and foul hulls; Working out ship factors from historical references; The Early Period (16th Century); The Middle Period (17th and early 18th Centuries); The Late Period (late 17th and 19th Centuries); Points Values (all periods); Creating Forts and Shore batteries (all periods)

    COMMANDERS AND CREW: Commanders; Effect of Visibility on command; Formations; Crew; Combat effects on Command and Crew; Taking Command; Use of Frigates

    PREPARING THE BATTLE AND SETTING UP: Climate and the Weather; Initial Deployment and Scouting; Displacement; Off-Table Forces; Victory and Defeat

    FIGHTING THE BATTLE, ORDER OF TURN

    MOVEMENT: Sailing and the movement of ships; Turning; Tacking; Hard Turns; Movement of ‘Handy’ vessels; Schooners and ‘Fore and Aft’ Rigged vessels; Collisions and fouling; The “Nelson Touch” (Breaking a line); Drifting; Towing; Use of Small Boats; Transferring Commanders and Crew between ships; Effect of land; Anchoring and weighing anchor; Leaving the Table

    GUNNERY, DAMAGE AND BOARDING: Gunnery basics; Gunnery attacks; Damage results; Fires and Burning ships; Boarding Actions

    MORALE AND PRIZES: Morale; Captured Ships and Prizes

    SCENARIOS: Scenario Format; How to use the Scenario Information; Landing Troops; ‘Beating to Quarters’; The Raid on Cadiz Harbour 1587; The Action off Portland Bill 1588; The Action off Gravelines 1588; Last Stand of the Revenge 1591; Beachy Head 1690; Toulon 1744; Havana 1748; Minorca 1756; Gibraltar 1759; Quiberon Bay 1759; Ushant 1778; Arbuthnot’s Action 1781; Chesapeake Bay 1781; Battle of the Saintes 1782; Glorious First of June 1794; Cape St. Vincent 1797; Kamperduin 1797; Battle of the Nile 1798; Copenhagen 1801; Algeciras 1801 (First Part); Algeciras 1801 (Second Part); Calder’s Action 1805; Trafalgar 1805

    GAME TEMPLATES: Record Sheets

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