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Cannon, Cross and Crescent

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A quick playing set of Renaissance naval rules covering the period 1450 to 1600, allowing small and medium sized games with 30 ships a side or more to be completed in a couple of hours or less. They have been written with 1/1200 models such as those from Navwar and Langton in mind, but could be used with larger or smaller models with appropriate changes in ranges and movement. Bookkeeping is minimal, using simple markers to indicate ship damage and crew casualties. Data for 20 different broad ship types is included, from bergantines and galiots up to large Lanternas and Galleons.

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Felix H May 26, 2022 10:51 am UTC
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I have two more questions:

1. Here is how I understand the interaction between boarding and gunnery. It would be great if you could see if I understood it correctly: If a galley is moving into close combat with another, after it has moved, it is still allowed to fire its guns (heavy guns if they are still loaded and light guns). After that, if a boarding action takes place, the attacking galley is allowed to fire its light guns again (and the defending galley also fires its light guns, but NOT its heavy guns).

2. How does drifting work. Burning and wrecked ship should drift down wind, but at which speed?

Thanks for the great rules and answering my questions.
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Felix H February 16, 2022 9:56 am UTC
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I am preparing for my first game and I have a question about the characteristics for the Fusta: the "speed under sail" is a dash. Does this mean Fustas can not move under sail? If so, why is that the case? From what I have found they would have been equipped with oars and sails just like the bigger galley types.
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David M February 16, 2022 12:25 pm UTC
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well spotted, its a misprint - speed should be 5", closeness to wind 45 degrees
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Felix H February 16, 2022 1:01 pm UTC
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Thanks.
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David M October 26, 2021 11:40 am UTC
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Thanks for your comments. I have added notes on the gunnery factors allowed for chasers. Galleasses are supposed to be powerful, as are round ships, there is copious historical evidence to support their effectiveness in the game. There are good historical and economic reasons why the various ship types served in the areas they did. The effect of using slaves or not as rowers is already covered in section 5.2
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Malcolm D March 30, 2020 10:32 am UTC
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I was disappointed in this set of rules, they have the feel of never having been play tested. For example most vessels can move under oars or sail, but there is no benefit in doing the latter rather you are slower and cannot sail close to the wind. Galleasses are so powerful against galleys, that it is almost impossible to damage or to board them (an opposed D6 roll with the galleass at +3), whereas their heavy guns strike back at +3 (+4 if Spanish) and they have a 270 degrees arc of fire. There is a section of slave rowers and which states used them, but this has no effecton the game - whyis it there? Round ships can fire bow and stern chasers, but there is no mention of what gunnery factor to use, so why bother.
I know that galleons are not intended for use with these rules, but as the stats are there I couldn't wonder why Don John bothered with galleys at Lepanto, 1 large Galleon would have done for the Turks as they are invulnerable to galleys!
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