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Summary of Contents
INTRODUCTION: Scales; Model Bases;
Required Material; Playing Area
SHIP RATINGS AND CLASSES: Rates and
Classes; Crew Parties; Hull and Broadside Ratings; Gunnery Classes;
Draughts; Table of Standard Ratings – 1700 onwards; Standard Ratings
Pre-1700; Crew, Captain and Command Quality; Oar Ratings; Unwieldy Ships
SCENARIO PREPARATION AND SET-UP: Set Up;
Wind Direction and Strength; Strategic Advantage; Tactical Initiative;
Tactical Cohesion
ORDER OF PLAY: Activities; Seizing the
Initiative; Weather Changes
MOVEMENT: Movement under Sail; Pre-1700
Sailing Qualities; Effect of Wind Strength on Movement under Sail; Sail
Types; Movement under Oars; Turning; Tacking (Square Rigged Vessels only);
Gybing (Fore and Aft Rigged Vessels only); Drifting; Collisions; Movement
Effects of Lost and Fallen Masts; Grappling; Cutting Free; At Anchor;
Shoals, Shallows and Grounding; Jury Rigging; Making a Stern Board; Towing
by Ships; Warping; Kedging; Setting Full Sail; Leaving the Playing Area
FIRING: Use of Chasers; Carronades;
Ammunition; Loading and Reloading; Gunnery Procedures; Effects of Weather on
Gunnery - Firing to the Leeward Side; Second Broadside; Shooting at Grappled
and Entangled Ships; Liners vs. Frigates (optional rule); Dismasted Ships
Shooting; Detailed Gunnery Rules
COMBAT TABLES
GUNNERY EFFECTS AND DAMAGE: Effect of
Ship Rate on Damage; Effect of Rating Reductions on Chasers; Damage Results;
Fallen Masts; Repair Tasks; Fire; Damage to Oared Vessels; Striking and
Shattered Ships
ADVANCED RULES FOR SMALL ACTIONS:
Modified Ship Ratings; Modified Movement System; Armament; Revised Gunnery
Range Modifier Table; Points Values
BOARDING ACTIONS: Initiating the Action;
Resolving the Action; Multiple Boarding Actions
REFERENCES
OPTIONAL RULES: Port Defences; Shore
Batteries and Shore Parties; Boats; Mortars; Fireships; Oared Vessels;
Signalling; Command and Control; Copper Bottoms and Time out of Dock;
Merchant and Unrated Vessels; The Dutch Wars
POINTS SYSTEM
SCENARIOS: Havana; Minorca; Arbuthnot’s
Action; Kamperduin; Battle of the Nile; Copenhagen; Algeciras I; Algeciras
II; Trafalgar
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