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Grand Fleet Actions in the Age of Sail Edition 2.0

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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

2003

Designed by David Manley, Alan Butler

Published by A & A Game Engineering

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SHIPS: Description and Definition of the ships; Clean and foul hulls; Working out ship factors from historical references; The Early Period (16th Century); The Middle Period (17th and early 18th Centuries); The Late Period (late 17th and 19th Centuries); Points Values (all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