Mini Trafalgar 2017 - MillenniumCon
Game run by Grant Hopwood
The 3rd Annual Mini-Battle of Trafalgar was held this year at
MilleniumCon XX in Austin, Texas.
The rules were Bloody Broadsides by Portsmouth Miniatures.
We had a record number of 20 players attend the game. 10 British
ships of the line lead by the HMS Victory charged the rag tag French
line of 13 ships in turn lead by the Bucentaure.
By the end of turn one, the
French had somehow managed to turn their battle line into even more
of a disaster. The British unfortunately, were never able to take
early advantage of this.
The HMS Africa did her duty
and charged straight into the French vanguard. For the rest of the
game she found herself constantly surrounded by French and Spanish
ships with no help, and was eventually struck.
The Victory, Britannia, and
Tonnant crashed the French line and took very heavy damage. The
other British captains took notice of the sheer amount of damage
flying around their vanguard and decided they wanted no part in it.
Against Admirals orders they veered off and away from the main
battle leaving the three heaviest British ships to their own. It
took those captains two hours to come back around to the main
battle, but by then it was too late to save the British vanguard.
The game last three and
half hours and nine turns were played. By the end, the Victory was
struck, the Britannia was swiss cheese, a couple of other British
ships had taken heavy damage, while most of the French fleet were
relatively unscathed.
On the 1st of November
1805, the French invasion of Britain commenced...
